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Introduction Bram Stoker’s Dracula, first published in 1897, is rightfully considered, along with Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, to be one of the triumvirate […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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