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The Prince Who Turned a Lamp White
Anniversary of Prince Albert's birth. His death left Queen Victoria inconsolable, changed the colour of a London police lamp and left a remarkable tr…
1 week, 3 days ago
The Death of Chatterton: The Dead Poet Who Wasn’t There
The dead poet is George Meredith, the garret is in Gray’s Inn, and the painter is about to run away with his model’s wife.
1 week, 4 days ago
The Night London Learned a New Word
A navigational error. Nine Londoners dead. Edward R. Murrow at his microphone in Trafalgar Square. And the night the Blitz began.
1 week, 5 days ago
The Oxford Don, the Railway Laureate and Learning England
The railway laureate, an Oxford don, a baby, and infantry...
1 week, 6 days ago
The Man Who Painted Joy
The more you know about Fragonard, the more beautiful The Swing becomes.
2 weeks ago
Constant Lambert: Brilliant, Bohemian, Burnt Out
Constant Lambert had wit, genius, glamour, appetite and almost no instinct whatsoever for self-preservation.
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Moon Over Covent Garden
One outrageous evening in Covent Garden tells you almost everything you need to know about Restoration London.
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Phyllida Law: She Was Some Kind of Woman
Phyllida Law – Ave atque vale
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Why London’s Railway Story Begins in Canada
Before the first train steamed into London, its story had begun on a remote island in Lake Huron, with an eighteen-year-old soldier building a fort i…
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Æthelstan – The King Who Invented England
A house in Kensington and the story of Æthelstan, the warrior king who, 1,100 years ago, forged a kingdom and became the first ruler of all England.
2 weeks, 5 days ago