05 January 2022
These articles are the first 11 out of 25 written by Vic Keegan on the various locations of historical interest in Holborn, Farringdon, Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury and St Giles, supported by the Central District Alliance business improvement district, which serves those areas.
Article 11: The Clerkenwell Priory and the Peasants’ Revolt
Article 10: The two sides of Bloomsbury’s Sir Hans Sloane
Article 9: How Clerkenwell became the gin capital of the world
Article 8: The long bar and longer backstory of High Holborn’s Cittie of Yorke
Article 7: Poetry, plague and St Giles-in-the-Fields
Article 6: Hatton Garden – first home of London’s famous Foundling Hospital
Article 5: Bloomsbury Square’s bloody and intriguing history
Article 4: The medieval gems of the London Charterhouse
Article 3: Bloomsbury’s wondrous church spire
Article 2: Where to find some real old Holborn
Article 1: The hidden history of Clerkenwell’s Red Bull theatre