When antique shops don’t display their prices in the window, you know the individual items on sale inside aren’t going to come cheap. Welcome to Chelsea, the fashionable suburb where the now famous Chelsea Bun was first produced in the 17th century, and an area that is today […]
After three glorious weeks, the BBC’s Tudors season is drawing to a close. Highlights for me included an expert panel (with guests ranging from David Starkey to Hilary Mantel) taking a fresh look at the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn and a biography of Henry VII, the […]
Maritime and Greenwich are two words that often go hand in hand. And given the area’s sea-faring past it’s not hard to see why. Within reach of Greenwich, dockyards were created more than 500 years ago that quite literally built the modern Navy. This was also where for […]
Past In The Present 