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Exhibition: London in the Second World War

14/04/2025 donbrown 0

To The London Archives in Clerkenwell for the small but (genuinely) perfectly formed ‘London in the Second World War’ exhibition. It runs until the end […]

The Barbican Conservatory: The Hanging Gardens of EC1*

10/03/2025 donbrown 0

To the Barbican on a glorious early spring day when the sky was blue and the sun was warm. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s brutalist City […]

grave stone of "giro" dog of german ambassador leopold von hoesch outside 9 carlton house terrace london

The Myth of ‘London’s Nazi Memorial’

02/03/2025 donbrown 0

Eavesdrop on some guides at the top of the Duke of York’s steps and you will hear them talk about the ‘Nazi dog’ that is […]

The Bright Red London Telephone Box

21/02/2025 donbrown 0

A redundant 20th century artefact, repurposed for the tourist economy. But enough about me, let’s talk about phone boxes. Go to Parliament Square and you […]

Getting Medieval: Room 8 at the V+A

20/02/2025 donbrown 0

If asked my favourite London museum I always feel duty bound to say the British Museum, its collection allowing glimpses into civilisations from across the […]

‘Gassed’ by John Singer Sargent at the IWM Blavatnik Gallery

09/02/2025 donbrown 0

John Singer Sargent was an American expat artist whose luminous portraits of late Victorian and Edwardian society – the aristocrats and the rich – made […]

The Body in the Lake: a Buckingham Palace Mystery

09/02/2025 donbrown 0

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 […]

Some more books worth your time

23/01/2025 donbrown 0

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 […]

inside the old reading room of the british library

The Old British Library Reading Room in the British Museum

23/01/2025 donbrown 0

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 […]

The Rolls Royce Merlin – the engine that won WW2

21/01/2025 donbrown 0

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 […]

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