Liberty London Christmas in 2025: The Good Ship Liberty hanging in the atrium, the elf workshop windows, the galleries, and how to visit.

Burlington Arcade Christmas in 2025: the Twelve Days decorations under the glass roof, the beadles at the gate, and the shop windows worth a look.

A lunchtime look down from the gallery of The Counting House, the Cornhill pub under the glass dome of a Victorian banking hall.

My photos of London staircases, from palace and hotel grand stairs to Georgian mahogany, iron spirals and Art Deco foyers, with how to see each one.

A winter walk through the Temple's cobbled lanes and Fountain Court ends inside 2 Temple Place, William Waldorf Astor's carved and gilded estate office on the Embankment.

Somerset House went from a Tudor palace to government offices to an arts centre. Its history, and how the building pays its way in the 2020s.

Dark wool and horsehair climb the front of 16 Hanover Square and fill the rooms inside. Why Nicola Turner built it this way: a chemistry college, a couture house and a hidden poem.

A walk through Maison Assouline, the luxury publisher's bookshop and cocktail bar inside a small bank that Edwin Lutyens designed next to Wren's St James's Church.

Rooftops, towers and a cathedral dome I've photographed across London, with which views are free, which need a ticket and which open only for Open House.

A walk through the Courtauld Gallery's Great Room, spiral staircase and Blavatnik Fine Rooms, with the history of Samuel Courtauld and the Royal Academy at Somerset House.

Autumn in Chelsea and Kensington happens on the shopfronts before it happens in the parks: pumpkin wreaths, dried-flower doorways, a pub buried in orange flowers and a street that turns scarlet.

Eight-metre palms, brass chandeliers and Gothic windows in St Pancras station's old Victorian ticket hall.

A walk through Christmas in Mayfair: the Connaught's artist tree, Burlington Arcade's Twelve Days, the bows of Mount Street, Hedonism's feast table and the Bond Street facades.

He won medals at the Royal Academy, killed his father in 1843 and painted for forty-two years in Bethlem and Broadmoor. The first Dadd retrospective in fifty years, the painting Freddie Mercury named a song after, and where his pictures live in London once the show closes.

The house in Hampstead where the clock stopped in 1939. Persian rugs, over 1,600 books, and more than two thousand antiquities that Freud carried from Vienna. The most affecting house museum in London, and the one I keep returning to.

The Hermès Bond Street Maison fills the six Georgian houses that were Asprey for 160 years: a Victorian lift, a spiral stair, a botanical room painted by a Brighton illustrator, and what it took seventeen years to build.

A Roman forum, a poultry market, Horace Jones's 1881 ironwork and a monthly vintage flea market, all on one set of cobbles in the City of London.

Old Masters, Sevres porcelain, and the armoury that sent Henry Moore off on a lifetime of shapes inside shapes. A nineteenth century house behind Oxford Street, free to walk into and almost always empty.

The King's Library tower, Magna Carta and the Lindisfarne Gospels in a gallery that costs nothing, and the most welcoming place to sit down in central London.

No ticket needed. A Victorian glasshouse, a fifth-floor terrace over Covent Garden piazza, and the cheapest ways in if you do want to see something on the stage.