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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 )

City churches: Exploring Wren’s post-Great Fire masterpieces

By Editor on October 26, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

City churches: Remembering where diarist Samuel Pepys worshipped

By Editor on October 19, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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, […]

City churches: London’s religious houses experience rapid medieval growth

By Editor on October 12, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

City churches: Uncovering London’s early Christian religious houses

By Editor on October 5, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

London’s East End takes up the fight in the 1917 Russian Revolution

By Editor on September 28, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Wood Green’s art deco masterpiece: Visiting North Met’s former headquarters

By Editor on September 21, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

New York tenement living: Telling the forgotten history of 97 Orchard Street and its residents

By Editor on September 14, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

With paint peeling off the walls and exposed, tatty floorboards, it is an apartment that seems far from the trendy homes that Manhattan has become famous for in recent years. But given that the Lower East Side has experienced a wave of gentrification in recent years, you could […]

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

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

From the top of One World Trade Center – the tallest building in the Western hemisphere – New York’s blockbuster sights across all of its five boroughs can be viewed in all their glory. Towering to a height of 1776ft, symbolic given that it was the year of […]

From Dutch settlement to American Revolution: New York’s fascinating history on show

By Editor on September 7, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

There’s no statue in the centre of Bowling Green park these days. An angry mob tour down the structure depicting George III in 1776 after George Washington’s Declaration of Independence and in its place now stands a fountain. At the same time, the tops of crowns from railings […]

Freedom at last: the Statue of Liberty’s welcome for America’s new arrivals

By Editor on September 2, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

For the 12 million immigrants who entered America through New York between 1892 and 1924, the Statue of Liberty provided the sign that they had arrived at the land of their dreams. To them the uplifted torch at the top of the structure on an island off Lower […]

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