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Tracing the Berlin Wall’s history 30 years after its fall

By Editor on November 12, 2019

Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years on

By Editor on November 10, 2019

Remembering the tragic past of Budapest’s Jewish quarter

By Editor on August 20, 2019

Colonial Sri Lanka: Uncovering Ceylon’s Colombo capital

By Editor on January 27, 2019

In Burma: Stark contrasts in a country at war with the Rohingyas

By Editor on January 26, 2018

Remembering 9/11: One World Trade Center, museum and memorial is a symbol of defiance

By Editor on September 11, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

North Kensington’s divide: What the Grenfell Tower tragedy exposed

By Editor on July 5, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

One year on from the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the 24-storey North Kensington block of flats – now covered in protective plastic inscribed with the words ‘Forever In Our Hearts’ – and other public buildings were illuminated in green. It was just one of many ways that people all […]

Remembering the Windrush Generation in Notting Hill

By Editor on June 28, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

When the Travel Bookshop opened its doors in Blenheim Crescent in 1981, Notting Hill was on the cusp of change. For much of the 20th century this West London neighbourhood was the place many people lived if all other accommodation options had failed. But now bedsits were being […]

Gateway to new lives in Britain: Tilbury and the Windrush Generation

By Editor on June 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

If you aren’t going for a meal at the World’s End pub or are visiting the nearby Tudor fort, there’s not much of a reason to want to visit riverside Tilbury. Corrugated iron warehouses, stacked containers, parked cars and towering cranes dominate the landscape, but there is little […]

Al Capone’s Chicago: When gangsters profited from Prohibition

By Editor on June 14, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Lincoln Park in Chicago is a great place to relax on a sunny day. Bigger than New York’s Central Park, it boasts ornate gardens, open fields, ponds, zoo (free, but with a decent array of animals including lions and tigers) and beaches dotted along the edge of Michigan […]

Bringing the world to Chicago: Reaching the skies after the Great Fire

By Editor on June 7, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

In 1893 America and the world came to Chicago. An incredible 27 million people – nearly half the country’s population at time – visited for celebration of four centuries of progress since Christopher Columbus landed in this continent. The World’s Fair, as it became known, put the city […]

Re-inventing Chicago: From America’s slaughter house to world-beating city

By Editor on May 31, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Anyone working near French Market in Chicago is spoiled for choice when it comes to sizing up lunch options. The 30 or so food stalls under one roof serve up everything from Vietnamese noodle soup to Italian smoked-meat sandwiches. It’s a gastronomical dream. Established in 2009 next to […]

Ada Salter’s Bermondsey: Beautifying a grimy industrial suburb

By Editor on May 24, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )

People have long come to London to enjoy its many attractions, but for some in the 1920s and 30s it wasn’t tourism that brought them here. Visitors travelled from across Europe and America to see Bermondsey Council’s pioneering work in providing residents with decent homes in pleasant surroundings. […]

Oil City exploration: In search of Canvey Island’s holiday resort past

By Editor on May 17, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas’. The Canvey Island amusement arcade may have borrowed its name from the popular Nevada gambling resort, but there didn’t seem to be many parallels between the two. In the United States people come in their droves to watch lavish live shows, but at […]

In Spitalfields: When gentrifiers were to be applauded for saving neighbourhoods

By Editor on May 10, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Gentrification has for several decades followed a familiar pattern. It starts when “artists move into an area with cheap housing and studio space, then developers follow – and longstanding communities are forced out,” the Guardian reported. “Little thought is given to the people who have lived there for […]

In Spitalfields: Dorset Street was “the Worst Street in London”

By Editor on May 3, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

For the Daily Mail in 1901 Dorset Street was “the Worst Street” in London.” The notorious stretch in Spitalfields was somewhere that “boasts a murder on average once a month, of a murder in every house, and one house at least, a murder in every room,” it wrote. […]

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