This Week In London’s History Monday – 28th January 1807: The gas lamps on Pall Mall are lit, making it the first street in the world to be illuminated in such a fashion. Tuesday – 29th January 1976: Twelve IRA bombs explode in the area around Oxford Street, injuring a taxi driver and starting several small fires. Wednesday – 30th January 1969: The Beatles perform live for the last time ever, on the roof......

Tonight's big sporting event will see Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather knock ten bells out of each other in their much hyped "Undefeated" welterweight title fight. If you're not Skyed up at home, some brave London pubs are showing the fight live from Las Vegas at 2 in the morning. Events are ticketed and many are sold out but we can tell you that the Slug in Fulham still has plenty of tickets available......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 13th August 1977: Hundreds of protesters clash with police at a National Front march in Lewisham, south-east London. About 400 Socialist Worker Party members had gathered to try to prevent the National Front march, but had been prevented by police, leading to attacks on the police themselves and over 200 arrests. Tuesday – 14th August 1821: The funeral procession of Queen Caroline, wife of George IV, makes......

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways 20. Faulkner's Alley Where? Runs parallel to Turnmill Street, between Cowcross Street and Benjamin Street. What? Wooooo! Spooky, eh? And so it should be. This little shortcut is 350 years old, predating the Great Fire. This part of Cowcross Street would have then overlooked the River Fleet, which today lies buried beneath the Metropolitan Line tracks. Back then, herds of cattle would have been herded daily......

This day in London’s History 1821: Caroline of Brunswick, the god-awful consort of George IV, died in Hammersmith after 25 years of farcical wedlock. It was always going to be an ill-starred pairing. Though, by all accounts, any union featuring either of these two would have been strained. The Prince Regent, as any Blackadder fan will know, was boisterous, oafish and careless with money. Caroline, for her part, has been described as coarse of......

This day in London’s History 1830: George IV dies. On the face of it, small potatoes as far as London is concerned. This is the George so memorably portrayed as the nitwit regent by Hugh Laurie in Blackadder III. And in real life, George IV was much despised for his extravagance and stubbornness. But he did leave a lasting legacy in the capital. On his death, a memorial statue was erected on a crossroads......

A day earlier than usual, here's the Londonist skinny on next week's giggage. Tonight: Not just the Blang night we mentioned last week but also a night of aMIGO's blues-funk, courtesy of Tim Staffell, the man whose band became Queen, at the George IV, 185 Chiswick High Road. Friday: So on the one hand we have glitterpunks Lorca at Purple Turtle making lots of noise and on the other Whirlwind Heat return with new......