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Introduction: Windmills in London Something you don’t expect to see in London is a windmill! Coming across a mill while on a walk through Brixton’s busy urban streets was quite […]
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Origins of the Royal Geographical Society The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), founded on 16 July 1830 as the Geographical Society of London, was created to advance geographical science and exploration. […]
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Introduction When you spread margarine on your toast in the 1930s, you were quite literally eating whale. Most people today think of Unilever as the multinational giant behind household brands […]
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Hazel Baker
Introduction Up in leafy Hampstead is one of London’s smaller museums, dedicated to one of England’s best-loved Romantic poets – John Keats. Keats House, a late Georgian home with a […]
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Introduction: London and the Legacy of Whaling: Illuminating the City, Reshaping the Arctic Throughout the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, London stood at the epicenter of the British—and, for a time, […]
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Hazel Baker
Introduction Step into the streets of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London, and you would have found yourself at the centre of a global trade in one of the most curious—and influential—materials […]
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Hazel Baker