18th century London was very different to the ... Metropolitan Museum of Art Further east, Covent Garden is full of the ghosts of wild nights. Although the Piazza began as a fashionable ...

Harlot. Whore. Prostitute. Covent Garden nun. The women of Hulu's Harlots wear these titles with pride. This is 18th century London, where one in five ladies sells sex for money. The eight-episode ...

By 1800, Covent Garden was the largest vegetable, fruit and herb market in England. The profile of the area had changed by then. As wealthier residents moved out, (the Bedfords to Southampton House, ...

boutiquey hotel named after 18th century novelist Henry Fielding sits just opposite. The tourist-trap that is Covent Garden Market is less than a five-minute scroll away, too. Rooms are charming ...

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 ...