Esther Addley

The new London Museum will be "a social space for the city", its director has said, hosting afternoon tea events, monthly dinner clubs and late-night DJ sets where visitors can mingle among the artefacts while dancing.

A decade in the making, the museum will reopen in November in two restored market halls that will house 7m objects and host late-night DJ sets

Read this exciting story from The Guardian June 19, 2026 issue. The new London Museum will be ‐a social space for the city‐, its director has said, hosting afternoon tea events, dinner clubs and late-night DJ sets where visitors can mingle among the artefacts while dancing.

How five months in 2016 that encompassed Boris Johnson siding with Vote Leave, Jo Cox’s murder and David Cameron’s resignation shaped the UK’s future

20-21 February 2016 David Cameron, having promised in 2013 that a future Conservative government would offer a referendum on Britain's

Urn with loving message to a person named as Gary Bonsor to be buried in local churchyard after efforts to find family draw a blank

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

Esther Addley For Michael Scurr, a volunteer at the National Archives in Kew, west London, it was “just a boring old Thursday morning” when

Former Conservative minister, who later joined Reform UK and became an unlikely celebrity, was found dead at her Devon home on Thursday

Esther Addley All together now, with arms in the air: One Jude Bellingham, there's only one Jude Bellingham …