Contemplating the Infinite in the British Museum
In Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, the Total Perspective Vortex gives “one momentary glimpse of the size of the entire infinity of creation […]
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The Mithraeum: The City of London’s Roman Temple
Under the Bloomberg European headquarters building in the City is the ‘London Mithraeum’, a glimpse into an obscure part of Roman London. Obscure not just […]
A Visit to Bow Street Police Museum
On 14 July 2006 the magistrates’ court opposite the Royal Opera House on Bow Street tried its final cases before being closed and redeveloped as […]
The Sutton Hoo treasure
In 1938 a Suffolk woman called Edith Pretty asked a local archaeologist Basil Brown (no relation unfortunately) to excavate a series of mounds that were […]
The Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum
A bit more medieval from the British Museum (read all about a 700 year old citole here), but this time we’re not in my favourite […]
The 4500 year old Standard of Ur
Back in the British Museum for the first time since lockdown and prepping for a real life tour with a real life guest. The Standard […]
Video: Favourite Museums and Galleries
Another free talk from me and my four friends at UKToursOnline. Here we look forward to the reopening of the UK’s galleries and museums by […]
The Museum of the Home
To the reopened (after a 3 ½ year, £18m+ revamp) Museum of the Home, a London Society tour with the museum director Sonia Solicari, and […]
Lindow Man – the body in the bog
In the British Museum is a remarkable Iron Age corpse, a wonderfully preserved ‘bog body’ from the 1st century CE discovered in a place called […]
The Royal Gold Cup
Walk into Room 40 in the British Museum via the staircase in the entrance lobby and the first thing that hits you is this wonderful […]