Who was “The Grand Old Duke of York”?
A couple of hundred metres from the much more famous Nelson’s column you will find the slightly more senior Duke of York’s Column (Nelson was […]
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A steam ship in the City of London
There are quite a number of ‘Holland Houses’ in the capital – the remains of a Jacobean country home in Holland Park, Kensington; a school […]
Ottobah Cugoano – an 18th century freed slave and abolitionist
Much of the narrative on the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire is framed by the actions of the white British campaigners […]
FREE VIRTUAL TOUR: London’s WW1 Memorials
A virtual tour from www.uktoursonline.com where I look at some of the capital’s most significant and most poignant war memorials from the First World War, […]
The Monarch’s Champion
If you ever have a tour of the Houses of Parliament it is in Westminster Hall where you meet your guide. This is the oldest […]
Chasing the Mallard
To get into All Souls College Oxford, one has to take what has been called ‘the hardest examination in the world’. The college has no […]
Churchill in London
A project I’m working on to map locations in London associated with Winston Churchill – very much a work in progress! Please suggest others that […]
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 […]
A Medieval Citole in the British Museum
Up in Room 40 of the British Museum you will find one of the most stunning bits of medieval carving to survive – a citole […]