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Andrew Marvell – Sex, Time & London
"Had we but world enough, and time…" Meet Andrew Marvell: poet, politician, satirist, Londoner, and the man behind the sexiest poem in the English la…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
David Low –The Hampstead Cartoonist Hitler Wanted Arrested
Hitler wanted him arrested. Mussolini banned him. And in a little Hampstead studio, David Low took on the dictators armed with nothing more than a pe…
3 weeks ago
August 14th – The Day the Chiefs Died
"Less British Museum and more life"
3 weeks, 1 day ago
How Many Strangers Do You See in a Day in London?
Strangers in London: for a few seconds their paths cross on a Tube escalator, then they disappear into the city.
3 weeks, 2 days ago
William Blake: The Londoner Who Saw Angels and Talked to the Dead
The dead got into him. Old London got into him.
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Lee Miller – From Vogue to Dachau to Hitler’s Bathtub
The woman who put the dirt of Dachau on Hitler’s bathmat.
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The 200 Bodies on Everest… and the 250 in Arizona
The people in those vessels are not called bodies. They’re called patients.
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Ship on the Roof
The most wonderfully landlocked ship in London.
3 weeks, 6 days ago
£20,000 for a Pair of Old Boots
...they’re old leather boots. Heavy, battered, workaday things. Except they’ve been silver-plated.
4 weeks ago
Thirty-nine
Each of those 39 stab wounds a candle blown out.
4 weeks, 1 day ago