Elephant Man in “from Hell”

Someone of significance in the graphic novel From Hell is the Elephant Man who appears multiple times…

221B Baker Street

I loved reading detective novels while growing up. Sherlock Holmes was definitely one of them though I have only read it in…

Macheath the hero?

One thing that fascinates me a lot during recent studies is the perception of Macheath as a hero. Being a dishonest criminal…

Newgate Prison

Because this prison frequently appears in the works I am studying, I am going to look further into this place and its significance.

William Hogarth — A Harlot’s Progress

The first blog looks at a set of paintings done by William Hogarth. When I first saw his paintings, I was surprised at the amount of detail he could achieve with his paint brush back in the 1700s. His attention to details, especially with people’s facial…

About Henry Mayhew

When I read Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor, I really enjoyed the fact that it was depicting the real London without giving much opinions. Much like the non-fiction pieces as well as documentaries we see today, the work focused on data and evidences rather than creativity. I…

What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day?

For this piece, I am going to focus on this film that we watched in class which discusses the destruction of Lea Valley’s wilderness during the buildup to the London Olympics. There are many scenes in the movie that deserves particular attention. Together, the…

Betty Brown — How a nobody can become a somebody

Betty Brown, The St Gile’s Orange Girl is a work written by Hannah More at the end of the 18th century. With London being a historically divided city in regards to the social classes, it is interesting to see how an orphan girl who is starving…

Introduction

Across the two thousand years of London’s history, the city has been used to show the country’s progress in terms of industrialization and ideology. At points in time, London developed into the capital of not just England but of the entire european continent — being the center for art, economics and…