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Last week I visited the brilliant ‘Holbein At The Tudor Court’ exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery. It was a fascinating insight into some of the characters of the day but also Holbein’s techniques of how he produced some of the most famous portraits of the 16th century. Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger […]
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I recently paid a visit to somewhere I have walked past many many times: Keats House in Hampstead. This lovely Regency building, near the Heath, on Keats Grove, is a significant location in English literary history as the place where the Romantic poet, John Keats, lived from 1818-1820. It is where he found inspiration, fell
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I was recently invited to have a look around the Royal Institution in Mayfair. Now having visited, I am rather ashamed to say that I previously knew fairly little about it, bar their famous Christmas lectures! It is a really fascinating spot and a must for history and science lovers alike. The Origins Of The
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Not many people know that tucked just off a busy road in Hackney is one of the last surviving Tudor houses in London. Sutton House has lived many lives over the centuries, going from a grand Tudor abode, to a school, to a trade union office and even becoming a squat in the 1980s. The
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I recently went on a preview Behind the Scenes tour of Tower Bridge. This included going across the famous glass walkways at the top but also down into the cavernous bascule chamber below the South tower. A Quick History Of The Bridge In the 1800s, the population of London skyrocketed from roughly 1 million in
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