Arrow marks the location of Virginia Chapel at the junction of Virginia Street and Pennington Street, London E1. © Breda Corish In May 2023, you might have noticed someone walking around Whitechapel - stopping and looking around then staring intently at their phone, over and over again. That's what it's like to use digital map overlays on your phone when you're trying to pin down the location of something that's no longer there. On this occasion, I found the location of the

This plaque on the side of Newington Green Primary School records the presence of one of Stoke Newington’s leading intellectual dissenters – that pioneering champion of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). For two years, she tried to earn a living by running a girls’ school on this site. When the school failed, she worked in Ireland as a governess – an experience which influenced her groundbreaking work, A Vindication of the Rights of Women.

View of the front of the old Haymarket Theatre, taken down in 1821, by unknown artist (1820 Etching). Image source: © The Trustees of...

What connected Ireland's great dynastic Norman family, the Butlers, with the most fashionable urban development in 17th-century London?