A steam ship in the City of London

29/07/2021 donbrown 0

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

29/07/2021 donbrown 0

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

05/04/2021 donbrown 0

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

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]