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 […]
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 […]
Eastcheap – from an old english word for market (and “east” to distinguish it from the original Westcheap, now ‘Cheapside’) – runs from Monument tube […]
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 […]
There are quite a number of ‘Holland Houses’ in the capital – the remains of a Jacobean country home in Holland Park, Kensington; a school […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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