For two nights in January, several areas of the City of London will be lit up in a new sound and light festival.

London was tiny when compared to today's modern cities, but much larger than any other English town at that time. In 1300, the population stood at approximately 80,000, all crammed into one square ...

In his recent history of London, “London, the Biography,” British author Peter Ackroyd chronicles how visitors to that city have been writing about the sounds it generates for centuries. One 16th ...

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I have recently read “Sounds Like London”, a book by Lloyd Bradley charting the history of black music in London in the last century. It’s an engaging book with interviews with key participants ...