Light Fingered Legend – Illustrator Steffi Hofmann
Who remembers the story of Jenny Diver the most famous pickpocket in the 1700s?...
What The Dickens?
We're celebrating the birthday of the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, born 7th February 1812... Mr Charles Dickens!...
Dead Letters
One of the many local adventures we had during these extraordinary months was a trip to the Embankment with London’s most famous mudla...
RAISING THE WOOF
Mark Fox on how the Drury Lane Theatre was rescued by a canine sensation In 1803, the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was in severe fin...
FANCY A FLUMMERY?
Lucy Moore laments the decline of the Jelly-house, erstwhile institutions of all things wobbly A 1771 guide to Covent Garden promised to ta...
Digging into the Past
Architect and mudlark Jason Sandy introduces us to the lost Anglo-Saxon city of Lundenwic Have you ever wondered what lies hidden beneath th...
The Green Queen
Food historian Regula Ysewijn introduces a remarkable figure from Covent Garden history Eliza. Listen closely and you might hear the name o...
HAULING ASS with Covent Garden costermonger donkeys
There were over 100,000 costermonger donkeys in Covent Garden from 1661-1974...
Covent Carnival
Pop-art pop-up on Long Acre with US superstar Charles Fazzino...
One Covent Gardener to another
Welcome note from a Covent Gardener...
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