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On fashionable Jermyn Street, close to Piccadilly, is a plaque marking where Sir Isaac Newton lived in London. While living here Sir Isaac Newton was responsible for the hanging of […]
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Albemarle Street is one of Mayfair’s quieter streets, but it has not always been so. It is home to the Royal Institution and with its imposing classical columns it is […]
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The British Museum’s exhibition ‘Thomas Becket murder and the making of a saint’ closed on 22 August 2021. It is being held to mark the 850th year of his death […]
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Lancelot Andrewes is hardly a household name, but he arguably had as much influence on the English language as William Shakespeare. Andrewes would have walked the same London streets as […]
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London’s skyline is graced by a cornucopia of architectural wonders. Among these is the captivating ‘Gherkin’, an icon of the city’s innovative spirit. Near this monument, on Bury Street in […]
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What was London’s blackout like during World War II? What was pre-war London like in 1939? What was the blackout? When did the blackout begin and why? What did Londoners […]
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