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Video: Square Stories – favourite squares in London, Oxford and Bath

09/08/2021 donbrown 0

Another video chat with the gang from UKToursOnline. This time we get competitive looking at “squares” – there are the London garden squares including Russell […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Bomb Damage maps

20/03/2019 donbrown 0

During the war the London County Council surveyors chronicled the devastation caused by enemy bombing on the capital. Hand colouring street level OS maps, they plotted the buildings […]

Up on the Roof – the Walkie Talkie’s Sky Garden

01/12/2018 donbrown 0

I’ve tried hard to like the Walkie Talkie, Rafael Vinoly’s skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street, but so far I’ve been unsuccessful. The thing dominates the […]

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