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The stuffaboutlondon review of 2024

01/01/2025 donbrown 0

Thanks to everyone who has visited the blog this year, passed comments, shared on Facebook or whatever. It’s been another record-breaking (for me) year, with […]

George Washington – one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived

12/09/2024 donbrown 0

So why does a statue of colonial rebel George Washington lord it over Trafalgar Square? And why is there also a bust of the first […]

A History of London – free talk recording

27/11/2023 donbrown 0

Last week I did a Zoom talk for 40 or so people as a fundraiser for Prostate Cancer UK. Called “a history of London in […]

Prince Albert’s Mega-kitsch Memorial

06/09/2023 donbrown 0

Of course the damn thing is utterly absurd. Every criticism of high victoriana – over-sentimental, over-decorated, over-elaborate to the point of fussy, over size – […]

Murder in the Abbey: the death of Robert Hawle

15/07/2023 donbrown 0

One of the great things about Westminster Abbey is that it is almost impossible to tire of the place. Yes, it can be a bit […]

An Elizabethan Prisoner’s Graffiti

07/02/2022 donbrown 0

The Tower of London, famous though it is for prisoners, had no dungeons as such: the incarcerated would be held in rooms in different buildings […]

“Exquisite Pain” in St Bart’s

07/02/2022 donbrown 0

The church of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield is one of the jewels of London. A breathtakingly beautiful architectural gem that has occupied its […]

The Chapel of St John the Evangelist

28/12/2021 donbrown 0

One of the loveliest and most peaceful spaces in London is literally in the centre of one of the busiest. The Tower of London gets […]

2021 – the StuffAboutLondon year in review

21/12/2021 donbrown 0

Thanks very much for following the blog this year, and for coming on the virtual tours (and the handful of real life walks) that have […]

The statue of William IV, Greenwich

14/11/2021 donbrown 0

WHAT: Statue of William IV WHERE: Greenwich Park (map) BY WHOM: Samuel Nixon WHEN: 1844 Poor old William IV. The last of the Hanoverian kings […]