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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…
2 weeks, 5 days 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…
3 weeks 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.
3 weeks, 1 day 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…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Mould that Changed the World
A mouldy dish. A sharp eye. A discovery in Paddington that changed medicine forever.
3 weeks, 2 days ago
London Was Talking. I Wasn’t Listening.
Albany Street: a perfectly ordinary London street with an extraordinary amount of history packed into it. Scratch the surface and out tumble grand te…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Four Men, One Zebra Crossing and the End of the Road
Four men cross a London road. The camera clicks. And one ordinary zebra crossing walks straight into history.
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Doctor Who Put Blood Back In
How do you save a dying patient when medicine’s answer is to take blood out? James Blundell did something revolutionary. He put blood back in.
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Eternal London Haunts Us Still
Thomas Moore wrote one of the immortal lines about London. The delicious twist? He was in Venice when he wrote it.
4 weeks ago
W. G. Grace: The Grave That Changed Everything
W. G. Grace was a giant of Victorian cricket, a legend in his own lifetime. Then I came across his grave and read the names above his own, and sudden…
4 weeks, 1 day ago