Why is Soho called Soho? The hunting cry, checked
20 October 2026·4 min read
History
Four hundred years of the loudest square mile in London, and the people behind the doors.
HistorySoho Square: the lawn at lunchtime, and 350 years of history
Laid out in the 1680s as King Square, given a statue that left for Harrow Weald and came back, and home to a hut that is really a tool shed: Soho Square, and where to eat on the lawn.
17 October 2026·4 min read
HistoryA Soho history walk: Mozart, Marx, Blake and the pump that stopped the cholera
One hour, a dozen addresses: where Mozart lodged at nine, where Marx wrote in poverty, where Blake was born, where television was first shown and where a doctor took the handle off a pump.
15 October 2026·4 min read
HistoryHow Chinatown came to Gerrard Street
From the docks of Limehouse to a pedestrianised Soho street, with a paifang gate and two stone lions to prove it.
11 September 2026·5 min read
HistoryGolden Square: the quiet corner of Soho and where to eat
Golden Square sits at Soho's western edge: grazing land turned gentry address turned office square, with a few good tables close by.
7 September 2026·3 min read
HistoryWhen Mozart lived on Frith Street
A boy of eight, a watchful father and a house on Frith Street that is long gone. Here is where it stood and what happened inside.
4 September 2026·4 min read
HistoryKarl Marx on Dean Street: the plaque at number 28
Karl Marx and his family lodged at 28 Dean Street from 1851 to 1856. Today the building is part of Quo Vadis, and the plaque is on the second floor.
12 August 2026·3 min read
HistoryWalker's Court and St Anne's Court: Soho's alleys
Two narrow Soho passages, one past of strip lights and one of studio tape, and a twelve-seat counter hidden off Dean Street.
21 July 2026·3 min read
HistoryKettner's on Romilly Street: 1867 to the Champagne Bar
From an 1867 French restaurant to a Soho House townhouse, Kettner's has kept its corner of Romilly Street through a lot of changes.
3 July 2026·3 min read
HistoryJohn Snow, the Broad Street pump and the pub that bears his name
A replica pump, a Victorian corner pub and the story of how a physician mapped an outbreak on Broadwick Street, then Broad Street.
11 June 2026·4 min read
HistoryThe Soho Village Fête: waiters' race, stalls and history
Free entry, snail racing, a tug of war and waiters sprinting round the streets with fizz on a tray: the Soho Society's fête in St Anne's Gardens.
1 June 2026·4 min read
HistoryMeard Street and the Georgian houses of Soho
A narrow street off Dean Street holds some of the finest early Georgian houses in London. Here is what to look at, and where to go next.
14 May 2026·5 min read
HistoryGetting into Soho by Tube: which station, which exit
Four stations ring Soho. Here is which to use, which exit to look for, and how to get home after the last Elizabeth line train.
12 May 2026·4 min read