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The Lost Stones of London
Whatever happened to Oswald's Stone?
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Matt Brown
Five... Portraits of St. Paul's Cathedral
Maps, essays, watercolour paintings, wartime photography
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Lydia Manch
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This Soho Statue Witnessed A Famous, Heroic Death
Charles II's tragic sojourn at Grim's Dyke.
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Matt Brown
London's First Vegetarian Restaurant
The Oxford Street home of lentil cutlets and porridge.
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Matt Brown
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April 2024

Five... Historic East End Pubs
Pints with a side of centuries-old splendour
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Lydia Manch
John Logie Baird: Why So Many Plaques?
TV pioneer has four plaques within a five-minute Soho/Covent Garden walk.
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Matt Brown
5
That Time a Volcano Killed a Third of Londoners
Blast from the past.
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Matt Brown
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Five... Places to See Pieces of Canadian History in London
There's more than meets the eye, eh?
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Lydia Manch
"Life on This Earth in the Year A.D. 2000"
Prince Philip sparks some 1954 predictions of London's transport future.
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Matt Brown
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Into the Sewers: Exploring London's Historic Bowels
Close encounters of the turd kind.
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Matt Brown
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Five... Things about the 1715 Solar Eclipse in London
'A Description of the Passage of the Shadow of the Moon over England'
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Lydia Manch
Crystal Palace: The Prequel
Joseph Paxton's first great greenhouse.
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Matt Brown
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