The 212 year-old company, which has been listed in London since the 1940s, is to recommend a 130p-a-share offer from US-based ...

The London-listed company's leading investors are ... Its first paper money was produced for the government of Mauritius in 1860, and in 1914 it began printing 10-shilling notes for the UK ...

Elon Musk wasn’t the first to shape the national conversation. Joshua Norton, a San Francisco cult figure, was.

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

Iconic symbols of the city’s 1800s glory? Yes. Methane-producing environmental hazards? Yes. Are they here to stay? Likely.

As 19th-century London reflected the mercantile wealth of ... led to rebellions in 1853 and 1860. But the principal effect of the revolts was to drive half a million Chinese refugees into Shanghai ...

As a boy, he helped to look after the sheep, but on leaving home he trained as a clockmaker, eventually moving to London in 1837 to pursue his trade ... for transmitting newspaper content and weather ...

Unscramble Claes Jansz Visscher's engraving of London in 1616. Before you do that though, the game's creators have put together a special Londonist challenge: three Thames maps (easy, moderate and ...

An extremely satisfying map of London you'll want to play with. It's was a thrilling start to the week transport-wise, what with the opening of the Silvertown Tunnel. And we're signing off on a ...

Tube nerds have got a new toy. Last week a new online map of the London Underground was revealed, and it shows exactly which trains are where at any given time. When you open the map you’ll see ...