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Hats Off to 350 Years
Lock & Co has been putting hats on London heads for 350 years. Princes, politicians, dandies and ordinary Londoners have all passed through its St Ja…
19 hours ago
109,915 People Under One Glass Roof
On October 7th, 1851, a staggering 109,915 people poured into Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition’s busiest day. So much silver changed hands that the…
2 days, 8 hours ago
“Burned out with London. Needed a bit of a break.”
Jason Lewis was "burned out with London and needed a bit of a break." Thirteen years, 46,000 miles, two broken legs, blood poisoning, oceans, rollerb…
3 days, 6 hours ago
The Day the Sixties Arrived
October 5th, 1962. James Bond walks onto the screen. The Beatles walk into the record shops. Britain wakes up in one decade and goes to bed in anothe…
4 days, 5 hours ago
Cable Street: The Day London Said No
Ninety years ago today, fascism came marching into London’s East End. Cable Street answered with barricades, defiance and one unforgettable cry: “The…
4 days, 23 hours ago
The Night the Bolshoi Conquered London
Seventy years ago today, the Bolshoi Ballet swept into Covent Garden and London rose to its feet. A dazzling cultural moment, with the Hungarian upri…
6 days, 7 hours ago
Blow-Up Bridge
A barge packed with gunpowder, sugar and nuts explodes beneath Macclesfield Bridge, hurling debris across Regent’s Park and waking London with a bang…
1 week ago
Croydon: Hiding in Plain Sight
I crossed Croydon knowing almost nothing about it. Forty-two miles into the London Camino, the borough at journey’s end turned out to be one of the b…
1 week, 1 day ago
Eight Years to the Day
One date. Two extraordinary moments. Eight catastrophic years. September 30 tells one of the darkest stories of the twentieth century.
1 week, 2 days ago
The Man Who Walked a Thousand Miles Without Going Anywhere
One mile every hour. For 1,000 hours. Meet Captain Barclay, Regency Britain’s almost forgotten walking phenomenon, prize-fight trainer and human endu…
1 week, 2 days ago