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Some snaps from a walk past the National Theatre and RFH yesterday afternoon

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Sunset at the Saline (salt pans) of Marsala. #win

Sunset at the Saline (salt pans) of Marsala.

#windmill #sicily #sicilia #sunset #trapani #salinemarsala #marsala #saltpans

Zingara nature reserve in northern Sicily. The loc

Zingara nature reserve in northern Sicily. The locals campaigned against an autoroute through here in 1980 and it became Sicily’s first nature reserve.

You walk up and down dirt tracks to find groups of Italians basking in secluded coves like seal colonies. The water is so clear and you swim with the fishes.

I have swum in the Med and drunk Italian craft beers on a terrace overlooking the sea, eaten ricotta pastries and gelati, and it feels normal and pre-covid.
#sicily #sicilia #zingaro #meditteranean #italy

Sicily - almost back to normal. #sicily #sicilia #

Sicily - almost back to normal.
#sicily #sicilia #scopello #caffe

Arriverderci England #holiday #gatwick #easyjet #s

Arriverderci England
#holiday #gatwick #easyjet #sicily #sunshine

London innit. . #london #tfl #londonunderground #r

London innit.
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#london #tfl #londonunderground #roundel #tube #tuberoundel #balham #gatewaytothesouth

Discover the stories of Bletchley Park and the cod

Discover the stories of Bletchley Park and the codebreakers in my online talk tomorrow (Sunday) tap @uktoursonline and follow the link on the bio.

We’ll hear about Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman, Bill Tutte and other geniuses that helped crack the German #Enigma and Lorenz systems; how the work at ‘BP’ gave the allies the advantage on D-Day, and the role of #Churchill.

We’ll also look at the origins of the codebreakers in #WW1 and how their work brought the US into the war.

@uktoursonline
#bletchley #bletchleypark #zimmermantelegram #codebreakers #gchq #ww2 #ww2history #virtualtours #lorenzmachine #enigma

On 2 August I’m doing a virtual tour “Most sec

On 2 August I’m doing a virtual tour “Most secret: the code breakers and Bletchley Park.” Tap @UKToursOnline and follow the link in the bio to book.
It will feature this man - #alanturing - here captured in a slate #sculpture by artist #stephenkettle, as well as stories from WW1 to the present.
Hear how Room 40 of the Admiralty evolved in the Government Code and Cipher School; the cracking of the German #enigma and #lorenz systems; how ‘ultra’ intelligence helped on #DDay and the role of Turing, Welchman, Tutte, Flowers and others.
#ww2 #ww2history #bletchleypark #codebreakers #virtualtours #billtutte #winstonchurchill

The raggy plane tree on Clapham Common through the

The raggy plane tree on Clapham Common through the past nine months.
#tree #planetree #londonplane #battersearise #claphamcommon

Detail from the wonderful ‘Royal Lion Hunt’ fr

Detail from the wonderful ‘Royal Lion Hunt’ frieze in the #britishmuseum, from around 640BCE.
The Assyrian king Ashurbanipal fires his bow from his chariot; only the king was allowed to kill lions and this seems to have become a structured act, with lions captured or bred for the purpose released into an arena to be killed by the king.
#assyria #assyrians #ashurbanipal #royallionhunt #sculpture #frieze #archery #london #visitlondon #chariot #carving

The Hinton St Mary mosaic, from the #britishmuseum

The Hinton St Mary mosaic, from the #britishmuseum. Dating from the early 4th century CE, it is the earliest known representation of Christ created in this country.
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You can find out more about this and other treasures from the museum with my virtual tour on Friday - go to @UKToursOnline and follow the link to the events in the bio.
#hintonstmarymosaic #mosaic #romanart #ancientrome #christianimagery #virtualtours #visitlondon

Recent review of my Churchill War Rooms virtual to

Recent review of my Churchill War Rooms virtual tour.

We look at the history of their creation, what life was like underground, and go into the Cabinet Room, Map Room and Churchill’s bedroom.

Latest one is today (14 July) at 7pm BST. Go to @uktoursonline and follow the events link in the bio to book tickets.
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#cabinetwarrooms #churchillwarrooms #winstonchurchill #ww2history #ww2 #london #visitlondon #virtuallearning #virtualtour #reviews

Uktoursonline.com Join me and four friends for a c

Uktoursonline.com
Join me and four friends for a chat about pubs - our favourite places, the best pub names, the history of ‘the boozer’ - on Monday 6th at 6pm. Free via Zoom (go to UKToursOnline.com and follow the link to ‘forthcoming tours’).

May contain Victoriana, Bill Clinton, pork scratchings, Jeffrey Bernard and unsubstantiated opinion.

Register for free at UKToursOnline.com
#visitengland #london #pubs #thepub #britishpubs #turftavern #philharmonicdiningrooms #beer #inns #tavern #visitlondon #soho #fleetstreet

The head of one of the horses that draws the chari

The head of one of the horses that draws the chariot of Selene, the goddess of the moon. Its nostrils are flared and its eyes wide in exhaustion, as it has spent the night traversing the sky.
This is one of the Parthenon sculptures (‘Elgin Marbles’) in the British Museum.
#london #sculpture #horse #elginmarbles #parthenonmarbles #parthenonsculptures #selene

Another online tour I’m doing on UKToursOnline.c

Another online tour I’m doing on UKToursOnline.com - the Churchill War Rooms (the Central War Rooms to give it its #WW2 title).
Learn how this converted office basement became the most important space in London during 1940.
#uktoursonline #winstonchurchill #london #londontour #onlinetours #ww2history

Upriver from Hammersmith Bridge #london #rivertham

Upriver from Hammersmith Bridge
#london #riverthames #thames #hammersmith #hammersmithbridge #river #sunset

Parish Boundary markets (for St Giles in the Field

Parish Boundary markets (for St Giles in the Fields) set into the Alfred Mews wall of Heal’s store.
#london #tottenhamcourtroad #bloomsbury #fitzrovia #parishboundary #parishmarker @heals_furniture #heals

Just after the PM’s statement the official Civil

Just after the PM’s statement the official Civil Service Twitter account tweeted this.
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Now deleted unfortunately, and I suspect the Civil Service social media team has a vacancy, but this is a great way to go.
#london #covid_19 #pandemic #borisjohnson #primeminister #dominiccummings #civilservice #britishgovernment

The weather vane on top of St Mary the Virgin pari

The weather vane on top of St Mary the Virgin parish church in Fen Ditton, Cambridge - a rowing eight (with cox) because this is close to the start of the university rowing ‘bumps’ on the River Cam.
(The river is too narrow for boats to race alongside each other, so the college eights start in a long line with each chasing the boat in front - if you catch it you’ve ‘bumped’ and start the next day one place up).
#cambridge #fenditton #cambridgeuniversity #rowing #bumps #cubc #rivercam #cam

Blue plaque to the scientist Rosalind Franklin, wh

Blue plaque to the scientist Rosalind Franklin, whose work was instrumental in the discovery of the structure of DNA. It’s in Drayton Gardens, just off the Fulham Road.
It’s possible she would have shared the Nobel Prize with Watson and Crick has she not died early in 1958 - the Nobel Committee does not award prizes posthumously.
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#london #blueplaque #blueplaques #englishheritage #fulham #fulhamroad #rosalindfranklin #science #dna #nobelprize #watsonandcrick

Want to know more about Bletchley Park, the cracki

Want to know more about Bletchley Park, the cracking of the 'Enigma' cyphers, and Alan Turing and the other WW2 codebreakers?

Next Thursday (21st) at 11am I'm doing a 'dress rehearsal' for a talk on Bletchley via Zoom. If you'd like to 'attend' drop me an email at don@donbrown.london and I'll send you a link.

I've promised to do a proper paid-for talk for an American company later in the month, and this will be my run through. Needless to say, I haven't written the talk yet, let alone found any photos or put the presentation together. Setting a practice for next Thursday and inviting people along is my way of giving myself a deadline that I have to stick to.

All welcome!
The blurb for the actual, paid-for talk is as follows:

The Bletchley Park story is one of brilliant minds, laser-like dedication, incredible organisation and truly history-changing results. This is the place where the encrypted messages of Japan, Italy and Nazi Germany were decoded, shortening WW2 by up to two years and so saving millions of lives.

Without Bletchley, the Battle of the Atlantic may never have been won, casualties in the Blitz would have been far higher, and D-Day might never have happened. It is also the site of the world’s first digital computer, and thus heralded our information age.

We will hear about the history of Bletchley Park and its forerunners, learn how Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman, Bill Tutte and others broke the German’s ‘Enigma’ and ‘Lorenz’ systems, and examine the years of work that went into making D-Day a success.

We’ll also examine Winston Churchill’s role in this secret world of espionage, why it took more than 30 years for Bletchley’s story to be revealed (and how the site and its building were almost lost forever), and some of the truths and fictions of the Benedict Cumberbatch movie ‘The Imitation Game”. Bletchley Park is one of the key historical sites of WW2 and what happened here is utterly fascinating, and still little-known. Join your expert guide (er, that's me) to discover more.

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