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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Past In The Present 