So too was sex. In the 18th century, the first edition of Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies appeared, a guide to the prostitutes of the neighbourhood. It went through dozens of editions over ...

Across town at the Covent Garden Theatre ... Were Ray and Hackman actual lovers, or was Hackman an 18th-century John Hinckley stalking the Georgian equivalent of Jodie Foster, pressing his ...

In the early 18th century, just two theatre companies ... He took a 61-year lease on a site in Covent Garden, not far from his rival on Drury Lane, and commissioned Edward Shepherd to design ...

David Olusoga's film, The People's Piazza: A History of Covent Garden, explores the captivating ... Image Credit: Tim Whitby Green Queen, and turn of the century environmental pioneer, Ethel ...

Mardi Gras celebrations are set to take over London this weekend as Covent Garden’s The Yard ... to America by French settlers in the 18th Century when they founded New Orleans.