The Clare Market facade of the LSE's old library was added in 1932 by the architect A.S.G. Butler, best known these days as the author...

Joseph Priestley sits over the main entrance of Birkbeck College, his head resting in his left hand, examining a huge scroll that drops ov...

Captain Cook is one of my all-time heroes, possibly the greatest navigator who ever lived. This 1910 statue is by Sir Thomas Brock. It ...

This noble figure of a Marine standing guard over a fallen comrade was created by Adrian Jones in 1903 to commemorate the fallen of the...

L.&.Co were Longmans, the publishers of dictionaries and other good works - the founder, Thomas Longman, inherited a share in Ephraim...

The Anchorage was the parsonage of St Clement Danes church in the Strand, so the wall is embellished with an anchor, the symbol of St Clem...

Margaret MacDonald was a feminist who worked tirelessly for the rights of women at work, becoming a member of the Women's Industrial C...