When the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops launched the annual Fortnight for Freedom in 2012, they knew that several martyrs’ feasts or memorials were on the calendar from June 21 to July 4 ...

Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. The above plan is of a location not far south of the Regents Park ponds, where we left off in Part I. This is in ...

There was always a sulphurous whiff of something downright Luciferian about him, yet enough fragility to make the act seem all too real – an infinitely more convincing and intriguing character than ...

Soft Cell front man Marc Almond has hooked up with award-winning saxophonist John Harle to produce a new album about the darker side of London. The Tyburn Tree features songs about the more ...

On May 4, 1535, five men were drawn on hurdles from the Tower of London to Tyburn Tree. Three were Carthusian monks, one a priest of the Brigittine order, and the fifth a parish priest. St. Thomas ...

The hanging dead, Spring-Heeled Jack, Ratcliffe murders, Blakean visions and the Highgate Vampire. London's old myths and murders are ripe territory for performance. Composer John Harle and singer ...

May I take this opportunity to correct a statement in your column On This Day for May 5 that says in 1760 the first hanging took place at Tyburn. May I take this opportunity to correct a statement in ...

A driver has been left with 'potentially life-changing injuries' after crashing into a tree in Erdington. Police have appealed for information following the serious crash which happened on the A38 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In a city full of memorials only an obscure plaque is spared for Tyburn gallows where as many as 60,000 people were ...

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