Raju Vaidyanathan was born in Brick Lane in Tower Hamlets. In 1983 he acquired a second-hand camera and started taking photographs of the area

Rarely seen color images of London during World War II

Bow Lane looking north, City of London, c1920s. Reid, an amateur photographer of independent means, began an ambitious project to record, in photographs and prose, an extended walk through the...

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Raju Vaidyanathan was born in Brick Lane in Tower Hamlets. In 1983 he acquired a second-hand camera and started taking photographs of the area

A new collection of Victorian photographs conjures up the winding streets and smoking factories of the city that inspired Charles Dickens.

Libby Hall's pictures of London feature one of my favourite photos to have appeared on Flashbak.

Historic England said the locations helped to shape the country and the modern world.

Powerful colour pictures that show the resilience of the British spirit throughout The Blitz have emerged to mark the 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill's 'V for Victory' campaign.

London’s once sleazy yet exhilarating district of bars, cafes, clubs and cabaret is rapidly being transformed by the relentless tide of gentrification and globalisation. Here, regulars past and present celebrate the Soho they knew

I come from a heavily Anglicised Scottish family. My mother is from Sussex. Although born in Scotland, my late dad was educated in Yorkshire and Cambridge and lived in England until he was in his l…

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Tate Britain's chronologically-arranged show depicts a vibrant city's transformation from a place yet to know the horrors of the second world war to the time of Margaret Thatcher.

Traffic in Bow Lane, City of London, c1920s.

Shots by CA Mathew from 100 years ago.

Here we look at 11 historic images from the Historic England Archive.

For 100 years, they stayed hidden in family albums. Now amateur photographer Horace Warner’s intimate portraits of London’s poorest children are being printed for the first time, giving a glimpse into a forgotten world

For many people going to work in London, they had no other option other than to walk miles through streets filled with blood and excrement, thanks to the prohibitively high cost of public transport.

London; Piccadilly Circus; England; coronation; Elizabeth II; spectators

We all use the London Underground, but do you know the history of East London's stations?

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Photos from Allan Hailstone's amazing book London: Portrait of a City 1955-1962

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When colour photographs were first invented, the French millionaire and philanthropist Albert Kahn poured his entire fortune into hiring a team of photographers, which he dispatched to more than 50 countries - his aim was to make a record of all the people of the world. In Britain they captured a nation on the brink of historical change. See the amazing pictures here

Now the site of London City Airport, here are King George V & Royal Albert Docks in 1930 http://t.co/wEyaXvWUMv

The Necropolis Railway shipped corpses out to Surrey.

Photographs of Soho in the 1950s.

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Aerial view of London, including St. Paul's Cathedral, after the Blitz during World War II, London, England, 1941.

The Broadway in 1936. "The Swan" PH to the right. (CollectionFB)