The Monarch’s Champion 15/03/2021 donbrown 0 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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Chasing the Mallard 04/03/2021 donbrown 0 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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Churchill in London 22/06/2020 donbrown 0 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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Lindow Man – the body in the bog 25/04/2020 donbrown 0 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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
The Royal Gold Cup 18/04/2020 donbrown 0 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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
A Medieval Citole in the British Museum 17/04/2020 donbrown 0 Up in Room 40 of the British Museum you will find one of the most stunning bits of medieval carving to survive – a citole […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
The Cabinet Room at the Churchill War Rooms 08/04/2020 donbrown 0 My Instagram Live talk from today about the Cabinet Room in the Central War Rooms and how it was used in WW2. “This is the […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Churchill War Rooms 04/04/2020 donbrown 0 With us all locked down it’s impossible to do tours at present, so I’ll be experimenting with some online tours. This is the first effort (at […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
London’s newest castle: The US Embassy, Nine Elms 31/03/2020 donbrown 0 Don’t call it a moat. Let’s be clear about that from the start; it’s not a moat – it’s a lake. Well, that’s according to […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Richmond’s Blue Plaques 22/03/2020 donbrown 2 After last month’s stroll past some of the more prominent plaques in Putney, another piece, this time on the residents of Richmond upon Thames. This […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
