
Locations from the Blog
A map! (Another map). I’ve tried to put the locations on the map referred to in the blog posts. Click on a location pin and […]
A map! (Another map). I’ve tried to put the locations on the map referred to in the blog posts. Click on a location pin and […]
John Singer Sargent was an American expat artist whose luminous portraits of late Victorian and Edwardian society – the aristocrats and the rich – made […]
When John Nash remodelled Buckingham Palace and St James’s Park for George IV in the 1820s, he replaced the previous formal ‘canal’ waterway in the […]
I keep saying I’ll do more book reviews, and then failing to, so the next good intention is to post up here books that I’ve […]
Ever since the British Library decamped to its new home at St Pancras in 1997 and the subsequent creation of the Great Court, the British […]
For men of a certain age (a demographic that to which I very squarely belong), those brought up with war comics, Airfix models and the […]
It’s often said that if you spend your time just looking at street level then you miss a huge amount of the art and history […]
Thanks to everyone who has visited the blog this year, passed comments, shared on Facebook or whatever. It’s been another record-breaking (for me) year, with […]
It has been estimated (by whom, I have no idea, but let’s roll with it), that London has more trees than people. That means more […]
For quite some time I’ve had links from book reviews and such like to Amazon, and in nearly ten years of blogging I’ve made the […]
Step onto Clapham Common from the eponymous tube station and looming in front of you is a large drinking fountain. By the German sculptor August […]
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