My top ten spot lists of London’s historical highlights. Organised by category such as era or place.
Walk down St John’s Lane in Clerkenwell and at the end of the street you will see a impressive gatehouse. Incongruous to its surroundings, it looks almost as if it has been transported out of a medieval world. This was once the Southern entranceway to the Clerkenwell Priory, the English Headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller. […]
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Hampton Court Palace is one of London’s most historic locations. The place just oozes with history. I was delighted recently to be taken on a tour of the palace by Daniel Jackson, head of historic buildings at Historic Royal Palaces. He showed me lots of the little details and secrets that many visitors miss. I have
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Largely hidden from view, enclosed behind a brick wall in Chelsea is a beautiful and historic site. The Chelsea Physic Garden is a four acre botanic garden, established in 1673. Chelsea Physic Garden is both a beautiful, relaxing place to visit but one that is also packed with history and stories to tell. Chelsea In
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On Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in Holborn, is what has got to be one of London’s most unusual, at times slightly unsettling, but totally fascinating museums. It is called the Hunterian Museum, part of the Royal College of Surgeons, and is filled with artefacts and specimens from the worlds of surgery, medicine and natural history. The
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The area of St James’s, as we know it today, with its mansions, gentleman’s clubs and shops began life in the early 16th century. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, Henry VIII had St James’s Palace built on the site of an old leper hospital. From the mid-17th century, those wishing to
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