All About History Dark History of London

If only the Thames could talk! What would the capital’s deep and murky river reveal about Britain’s biggest city? London has a long, dark and bloody history cursed by fires, pestilence, poverty, violence and crime. Beneath the hustle and bustle of the Big Smoke’s busiest streets you won’t just find the city’s underground subway system, but pits filled with the corpses of plague victims, remnants of brutal forms of torture and execution and even what was once a railway for the dead. Unearth the dark side of some of London’s most iconic landmarks, from the notorious Tower of London to the seemingly serene Hyde Park, and discover some of the sordid stories that the city would rather forget.