All board, the Mail Rail is ready to leave! There has been quite a buzz surrounding the opening of the London’s newest underground passenger line. Initial timed weekend tickets sold out months in advance when they were first released, but after a patient wait I have now finally […]
“I want us to disrupt this street,” Rupert Murdoch says after his purchase of the Sun in 1969. The young Australian sheep farmer, turned newspaper proprietor wanted big things from the ailing broadsheet founded five years earlier, which under his watch would be re-born as a lively tabloid. […]
In the final part of my series on the City’s churches, I look at how some needed to be re-built following the IRA bombs of the 1990s and consider how they are preparing for the future. There is a tragic story behind the Gherkin in the heart of […]
Continuing my series on the City of London’s churches, I take a look this week at examples of buildings where only towers and steeples survive. St Dunstan in the East in the City is a place that you will probably have all to yourself if you visit at […]
The City of London’s churches are fascinating places to while away some time, whether you are there to participate in a service or merely take stock of the surroundings that tell us so much about the history of our great capital. In the fourth of my new six-part […]
The City of London’s churches are fascinating places to while away some time, whether you are there to participate in a service or merely take stock of the surroundings that tell us so much about the history of our great capital. In the third of a six-part series, […]
The City of London’s churches are fascinating places to while away some time, whether you are there to participate in a service or merely take stock of the surroundings that tell us so much about the history of our great capital. In the second part of my new […]
Despite fires, bombings, natural disasters, de-population and falling attendance, the City of London’s long-standing churches remain open and ready to visit. They are fascinating places to while away some time, whether you are there to participate in a service or merely take stock of the surroundings that tell […]
From the British Museum to the Royal Academy, London’s great institutions have this year been playing their part in remembering the Russian Revolution of 1917. I’ve found these exhibitions charting the cultural and historical aspects of how people rose up against the Tsarist regime exactly a century ago […]
The Green Rooms arts hotel seems quite out of place for the centre of Wood Green. As soon as you step out of the Tube station you encounter a bustling high street of chain stores, but then turn the corner to enter this building and you feel like […]
Past In The Present 