My top ten spot lists of London’s historical highlights. Organised by category such as era or place.
Hampstead Heath is a wonderful place to feel like you have truly escaped the tumult of London. A sandy ridge, looking out over London from the North, Hampstead Heath covers around 800 acres and has a multitude of landscapes including ponds, hills, ancient woodland and open heath. It is a place where you can wander, […]
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I was recently lucky enough to be invited to have a look inside St James’s Palace. It is the royal palace with, traditionally, the least public access. That will however soon be changing, more on that below. The palace has been at the heart of Royal history for nearly five hundred years and naturally has
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I recently paid a visit to one of London’s most iconic shops: Lock and Co Hatters in St James’s. It is considered to be the oldest shop in London, but also is said to be the oldest hat shop in the world and is, amazingly, still run by the same family today. St James’s: Wealth
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The City of London, the financial district, is full of lesser-known historical treasures. The subject of this blog post though is not historical as such, but gives you a brilliant sense of the size, layout and architecture of London. I often recommend the models of London by NLA (New London Architecture), inside the London Centre,
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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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