I am always cautious with applying a 21st century view to earlier times, however a quick newspaper search, and the name Fanny Burney was used many, many more times both during and after her life, rather than Madame D’Arblay as she was also known, so rather than D’Arblay Street, perhap...
The Yantlet Creek has long been a key point of reference on the River Thames, and there are numerous newspaper reports using Yantlet Creek as a reference for an event on the river, and the change in regulations that apply when crossing the line between Yantlet Creek and Southend. For e...
National Archives – war diaries (currently free to download) Ealing Gazette and West Middlesex Observer(on British Newspaper Archive) History of the 27th American Division (pdf) Leave a comment Posted byStuarton 11 May 2020 inOrdinary Londoners Parallels and echoes? 24Apr The coronavirus/covid-19...
A tradition of attaching money to the ceiling and walls has developed in an effort to pay off Cedric’s debt (and presumably stop the haunting). Along with the memorabilia relating to the pub’s history, the walls also feature a collection of newspaper clippings about the haunting. For detai...
was only 17, her hometown’s most prominent orchestra was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. So upset was she by the prospective collapse of Orchestra London —“a hugely inspiring childhood presence” —that she stayed up most of one night to write anopinion piecefor the local newspaper....
HISTORY UK: In 1986 Rupert Murdoch moved The Times newspaper printing offices from Fleet Street to this modern site, the old infilled London Dock. It was bitterly opposed by the printers who went on strike. 146. Thames House 11 Millbank (Horseferry Rd), 伦敦, Greater London Government Buildi...
Ogle,Free Library, 296–99;Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 31 August 1890. 29. Daily News, 2 May 1890;Pall Mall Gazette, 2 May 1890; cf. Kelly,History of Public Libraries, 134. 30. The Times, 5 March 1891. 31. The Times, 11 March 1891;Marylebone Mercury, 7 August 1896; catalogues and...
Sources Quotes and info are taken from many newspaper sources. Contact matt@londonist.com if you'd like further information on any particular point. Some free-to-view accounts of Dr Robinson can be found on Google News, and there's also this recent essay on his work.Report...
“reflection on today’s discourse around migration” will be accompanied by a wall of historic maps that present a visual sense of data on international migration, agricultural trade, and tourism between 1500 and 2005. Exodus can be seen until May. Admission is free. For more, seewww.london...
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