Every year around this time, I face a familiar existential crisis – less Hamlet, more hamlet –namely, whether to quietly allow this blog...

As Charles Dickens once wrote: It is worth standing for a few minutes on a bright, quiet morning when the heath is almost deserted and try

The spelling for Greenwich has changed quite a few times but the meaning has mainly stayed the same since it was first recorded in history.

Rumour has it that Blackheath is called so because of all the dead bodies lying beneath it from the Black Death. Is that the truth?

Once the pride of the British merchant fleet, the Cutty Sark now creaks and groans under the weight of her history.

Despite the depiction of Henry in The King as a peace-loving, hard-liquor-drinking stinking sloth of a prince, he was none of these things.

(Main Monarchs: Edward III and, much later, Charles II – although the plague was persistent over many reigns and years) Search Google,...

Blackheath was to become outrageous and outraged. Caroline of Brunswick had arrived and it was party time.

Martial Bourdin | 1868 – 1894 (Monarch: Victoria) The date was February 15th, 1894. A cloudy Thursday with the possibility of slight...

Origins and History 1427 The build of Bellacourt (a modest medieval manor house) was started by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. The Duke,...

Charles Peace (1832 – 1879) (Monarch: Victoria) In the last three months of his career, Peace had a criminal love affair with Blackheath....

Google Dick Turpin and there is always mention that he did some of his dastardly deeds around Shooter’s Hill and Blackheath. Is it all true?

Oh yes, we had a chocolate house in Greenwich! Not just any old chocolate house but the Royal Chocolate House!

Henry was destined to become a thug because by the age of ten, he had given 'a specimen of his dishonest disposition'

The story of Blueskin, Honest Jack, Edgworth Bess, and Jonathan Wild – the stuff of twists, turns, and corruption!

Does Greenwich have a pirate history? The maritime axis of the world had to have some links to marauding filibusters, surely?

Claude arrives in England at seventeen, smack bang into the hedonistic "universal joy upon the return of the Royal family."

Blackheath, yet again, was in for more mischief and mayhem.

In the 1830s, John H Belville began to sell time. It wasn’t just any old time; it was Greenwich time –probably the best time in the world.

Biscuits were not how we define them now. They weren't cosy coffee-dunking ginger biscuits or sandwiched with jam and covered in chocolate.

Blackheath – A beautiful leafy and peaceful village on the outskirts of London – but not if you look at its history.

In 1780, local builders were laying the foundations for a house along Blackheath Hill when the discovered something rather curious beneath.