Clerkenwell’s Lost Monasteries

St James Clerkenwell

Visit the sites of four great monasteries which dominated Clerkenwell for hundreds of years and have left their mark to this day. This year Bart’s Hospital is celebrating its 900th … Read more

Clerkenwell Crime and Punishment

clerkenwell prison wall

Turbulent centuries of monasteries, vengeance, courthouses, prisons, murder, social reformers, a bomb plot and more…. Clerkenwell lies just outside the old City, originally the location of the monastic houses from … Read more

Clerkenwell Crime and Punishment

clerkenwell prison wall

Turbulent centuries of monasteries, vengeance, courthouses, prisons, murder, social reformers, a bomb plot and more…. Clerkenwell lies just outside the old City, originally the location of the monastic houses from … Read more