Background Information Your handy-dandy guide to 18th-century London. A brief overview of places, people, and times, as well as some useful links to outside sources of historical information.
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The Grub-street Journal A newspaper of a rather lower tone on the whole, consisting chiefly of undocumented sensational trash, and risque gossip.
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Covent Garden A district in the easternmost part of Westminster, a bustling, higgledy-piggledy market-place district full of merchants, whores, street-performers, vagrants, and all the riffraff of London. Home to the Theatre Royal of Covent Garden, and Drury Lane as well.
City of London The historic walled core of London, home to some of the central buildings of government, including the Old Bailey, Newgate Gaol, and St Paul's Cathedral.
St Giles' Slum St Giles' is a gin-soaked hive of disease, poverty, and misery. So full of crime that it has its own thieves' language, St Giles is perhaps the most depraved rookery in London.
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Whitehall The centre of English government, Whitehall road is near to the Houses of Parliament and contains the Admiralty offices, as well as the Treasury and other vital parts of the country's administration.
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Tyburn A village on the outskirts of London, the seat of public executions; the Tyburn gallows can accomodate up to twenty-four criminals at once. An admirable efficiency.
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London-at-Large Anywhere else in the City of London that you care to go.
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