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Florence Nightingale is credited as the founder of modern nursing. She strived to improve the standards of nursing, notably during the Crimean war. There was something special and extraordinary about […]
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The Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich: London’s Exception to Simplicity Unlike other cities that flaunt architectural grandeur, London exhibits a subtler charm. Yet, The Royal Naval Hospital in Greenwich stands as […]
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The little Old St Pancras church lies to the north of Kings Cross station. Lovely though the church may be it seems an unlikely location for a royal wedding, and […]
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In these strange times we have more time to look more closely at some of the familiar spots in our own locality. So, I had time to stop and study […]
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Up a narrow 52-step spiral staircase and in the attic of the early eighteenth-century church of the old St Thomas’ Hospital is the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe. Predating […]
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Coffeehouses became a hub of news and inevitably a place where new ideas were formed. Boy runners were sent from coffee house to coffee house in order to relay information […]
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