The first set of eleven articles covering the Central District Alliance area

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