Book Review | Vic Keegan’s Lost London 2
A coffee in the Onion Garden with the inestimable Vic Keegan – journalist, oenologist, poet and historian of London. His ‘Lost London’ column ran weekly […]
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Book Review | Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub
[This review was first published on The London Society website in February 2022] As a London Blue Badge Guide I take Americans around London – the Tower, […]
Book Review | High Buildings, Low Morals by Rob Baker
[This review was first published on The London Society website in November 2017] Fans of Rob Baker’s blog ‘Another Nickel in the Machine‘ and his […]
Book Review | Vic Keegan’s Lost London
[This review was first published on The London Society Website in February 2021] Followers of the OnLondon twitter feed will know that every week, among the pieces […]
Book Review | Bus Fare by Travis Elborough and Joe Kerr
Bus Fare: Collected Writings on London’s Most Loved Means of Transport by Travis Elborough and Joe Kerr, published by AA Publishing. [This review was first published […]
Recent Reading – books about Winston Churchill
I’m about to start several tours for (mainly) Americans who are following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill. We’ll be doing Chartwell, Blenheim, Bletchley Park, […]
Some recent reading – London books
One thing that I always meant to do, but have never actually got around to doing, is to put up lists of favourite or recommended […]
Hallie Rubenhold’s “The Five”
Should you want a wee bit of titillation, there is a ‘Jack the Ripper tour’ just about every day of the year. In fact, so […]
The Bomb Damage maps
During the war the London County Council surveyors chronicled the devastation caused by enemy bombing on the capital. Hand colouring street level OS maps, they plotted the buildings […]
London Buses
I’ve done a book review for the London Society on a new collection of writing about London buses and the bus network called ‘Bus Fare‘. […]