The Churchill War Rooms is a museum in London and one of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum. The museum comprises the Cabinet War Rooms, a historic underground complex that housed a British government command centre throughout the Second World War, and the...

The Green Park was first recorded in 1554 as the place where a rebellion took place against the marriage of Mary I to Philip II of Spain. It was a famous duelling site until 1667 when Charles II bought an extra 40 acres and it became known as upper St James's Park....

The Household Cavalry Museum is a living museum in the heart of Horse Guards, Whitehall, London. Unlike any other military museum it offers a unique “behind- the-scenes” look at the work that goes into the ceremonial and operational role of the Household Cavalry...

When King Henry VIII and his court were thundering across Hyde Park in 1536 in pursuit of deer and wild boar, it would have been difficult to visualise that years later the noble art of tai chi would be peacefully performed among the trees in the early morning, and...

Maurice House in SOHO

Spring Park, owned and managed by the City of London at no cost to the public, is a 20 hectare (50 acre) public open space. Located in the London Borough of Bromley it forms part of a larger area of open countryside within the London green belt that link London with...

In the heart of London, just steps from Trafalgar Square, is Benjamin Franklin House, the world's only remaining Franklin home. For nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775, Dr Benjamin Franklin - scientist, diplomat, philosopher, inventor, Founding Father of the...

Founded by J. H. Sutcliffe of the British Optical Association in 1901, this is a remarkable museum collection comprising over seventeen thousand outstanding objects and archival items relating to the history of ophthalmic optics (optometry), the human eye and visual...

The National Gallery in London was founded in 1824 and houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900[a] in its home on Trafalgar Square. The gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department...

The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London, England, housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people; selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. It was the first portrait...