St Pancras Old Churchyard has a turbulent past, from body snatching to an unexpected walrus. Memorials in the churchyard recall the invasion of the railway, which gave the writer Thomas Hardy one of his earliest, and most gruesome jobs.

For Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway the clocks of Big Ben and St Margaret’s, Westminster do more than just tell the time.

Polymath and rogue Thomas Gemini peddles his wares in Tudor Blackfriars.

In Elizabethan London, Richard Walweyn’s trousers were a literal crime of fashion.