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Gunnersbury Park is a beautiful spot for a wander and a much-loved green space for locals. Less well explored, however, is the grand house at its heart, which is home to a fascinating museum. Its history involves an unconventional princess, one of the wealthiest families in the world and some intriguing stories along the way.
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Seconds from Charing Cross Station is a brilliant historical surprise: a small museum, hidden mostly below ground: the oldest museum in the world dedicated to all things optometry including spectacles, lenses, eye tests and more. Unbeknownst to almost everyone bustling in and out of the train station, a stone’s throw away is an extraordinary collection,
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The Peasants’ Revolt, or the ‘Great Uprising’ of 1381, was one of the great defining and dramatic events of medieval England. That summer, rebellion erupted across parts of Southern and Eastern England. Thousands of ordinary people arrived at the gates of London and, for a brief moment, threatened the established order of English society. They
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Next to St Pancras Station and behind the British Library you will find another very important building, this one particularly in the world of science: the Francis Crick Institute, otherwise known as The Crick. It is the single largest biomedical laboratory under one roof in all of Europe and carries out world-leading research. They also have
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As the bombs rained down on London from September 1940, artists carried on responding to their environment and recording what they saw through their works. They captured a city that is recognisable but also unfamiliar, with wartime precautions in place, the fear of the citizens palpable and both destruction but also surprisng beauty weaved through
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