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Tag Archives: history
The history of 10 Downing Street and a peek behind its famous black door.
A few weeks ago I posted about a ‘fake’ Number 10 Downing Street and so I thought it would be timely to write about the actual Number 10 Downing Street especially as having written about historic and political situations for … Continue reading
Posted in history, London, Politics
Tagged 10 Downing Street, Churchill, Downing Street, history, London, Politics
5 Comments
The Great Beer Flood of London
Like many ancient cities, London has suffered its fair share of disasters, perhaps unduly so but whilst history is full of fires, wars, pestilence and biblical downpours, few places in the world can have suffered what is known as The … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, London
Tagged Beer, Dominion Theatre, Great Beer Flood, history, London, Pubs
5 Comments
Dead Fish raining down on London at Blow-Up Bridge
So far on this series of posts on the canals of London, you’ve probably noticed that these days they are mostly tranquil places. It wasn’t always the case and none more so than around 5am on the 2nd October 1874. … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, London
Tagged Canals, history, London, Regents Canal, Regents Park
1 Comment
Now and then on an old London street corner
A few years ago I did a short series of then and now photos showing how places have changed since the advent of photography I’ve seen the photo below before and still think it is very evocative. This is the … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, history, London, Photography, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Big Ben, East End, history, Liberty Bell, Photography, Whitechapel, Whitechapel Bell Foundry
2 Comments
Thomas Coram in Boston
Last week I took time out from touring to visit two temporary exhibitions at institutions that have very worthy reasons for visiting and yet understandably might not feature high on the list for foreign visitors. Namely the Kristallnacht exhibition at … Continue reading
Posted in history, London, Religion and Faith
Tagged Bloosmbury, Boston, church, Congregationalist, Foundling Hospital, Foundling Museum, history, philanthropy, Puritan, Thomas Coram
2 Comments
Æthelflaed – Lady of the Mercians
Every now and then I like to write a post about one of the important and often overlooked women in history and British history in particular. Sometimes they appear in the most unexpected places such as the Wrestling Mongolian Princess … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon, Æthelflaed, England, history, Mercia, Mercians, Queen, Vikings
12 Comments
A Brief History of the Penny
As the modern era of a cashless society rolls relentlessly onwards and due to inflation the value of it ever decreasing, the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has raised the prospect that like the half pence in the 1980’s … Continue reading
The London Colosseum
We’re all familiar with the Coloseum in Rome, one of the architectural wonders of both the ancient world and Italy but though the Colosseum is by far the most iconic, there are actually Roman amphitheatres to be found across North … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, history, Life, London, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Amphitheatre, Colosseum, Gladiator, Guildhall, history, Londinium, Roman
11 Comments
A drive through London in 1946
I came across this video today when I was mean’t to be working on one of my worik in progress manuscripts. It shows that traffic has always been bad in London though it seems quiet at first. I really enjoyed … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, London
Tagged history, London, Pathe News, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Traffic, Traffic Jams, Video, WW2
3 Comments
How did countries get their names?
Have you ever wondered why your country has the name it has (in the English language anyway)? How did England get its name? There are two reasons and they are possibly linked. As with countless other countries, the name is … Continue reading
Posted in geography, history, News, Travel
Tagged Country, Country origins, Etymology, Georgraphy, history, Names, Travel, Tribes
13 Comments