The Gospel According to Google Maps
There is really only one piece of news worth writing about this week. With a mixture of relief, excitement and…
The Battle of Cable Street: When Ordinary Londoners Stood Their Ground
Some moments in history feel inevitable when we look back on them. The Battle of Cable Street wasn’t one of…
The quack will see you now
Medieval medicine and it’s practitioners get a rather bad press, Quackery neatly wrapping the whole issue into an understandable term.…
How Curious
There is a small area of central London crammed in between Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the Strand and Aldwych. The area…
Now you see it, now you don’t
I’ve been undertaking a very bad and dangerous habit this week, that of thinking, well musing actually. This all came…
Can you smell smoke?
Because if you had been standing in the City of London on the second day of September 1666, exactly three…
Gog and Magog Giants of Albion
These two figures adorn the clock of St Dunstan’s in the West, Fleet Street. They are meant to represent the…
Is There A Doctor On The Train?
I recently read an article regarding a baby that was born on a London Bus in Hackney, which made me…
Sorry, no fish today
Had the luxury of travelling on a bus a few weeks ago from Victoria to Charing Cross. I call it…
The Downfall Of A Victorian Fraudster
If today you stand on the confluence of Cannon Street, Walbrook and Bloomberg Arcade, you’d be roughly inside The Coopers…
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