Few visitors know that London has 640km of waterways – and there's a serious movement taking place to restore these "blue corridors" to their former glory. Though most visitors to London think only of ...

London’s shiny new super sewer has reduced the impact of Thames combined sewage overflows by 96 per cent, promising to dramatically restore the health of the waterway and giving a huge boost to the ...

Rachid Bouchareb‘s “London River” is simultaneously quaint and far-reaching, a tension the filmmaker never fully resolves. Set in the immediate aftermath of the 2005 London bombings, the movie follows ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Around 200 years ago, during the Industrial Revolution, London’s River Thames was both a hub of trade ...

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As successive generations of Londoners have lived in the city over thousands of years, their everyday lives have generated plenty of objects, whether cherished belongings or detritus. Some of these ...