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02/03/2024

All hail the pastel de nata - the Portuguese custard tart

17/02/2024

A visit to the gallimaufry that is Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

13/02/2024

London in the 18th century - walk the streets of the capital with this remarkable map.

This 1746 map of London shows a very different city to today, and is both a fantastic historical source and a marvellous way of imagining the 18th century capital.

30/01/2024

Less than 40 minutes from central London, Bletchley Park has a fine museum and is a'must see' for anone interested in the history of WW2.

18/01/2024

The view from 'Horizon22', London's highest public viewing gallery, looking out across the city and to South and East London.

16/12/2023

Christmas Lecture

It is morally reprehensible that this country needs foodbanks, but it does, and they do invaluable work.

If you're considering buying some expensive gift (that will never be used) for a relative, or you get given expensive gifts (that will never be used) from same - why not declare that you're not giving or receiving presents this year and instead make a cash donation to your local foodbank (and suggest others do likewise).

Bankuet is a social impact company that maximises donations. You can give to a 'general' fund or to a foodbank near you. Link below.

Warm glow of virtuousness guaranteed. You also escape having to say "how lovely!" as you unwrap yet another unwanted gift.

Food bank donations are a great way to support those in need. Please consider donating to a food bank, so we can help them with the supplies that they need.

14/12/2023

New blog post on London’s longest-surviving blue plaque

One of the underappreciated glories of London is the Blue Plaque scheme, the commemoration with 19” (48cm) ceramic discs of the places associated with history’s great and good, or of significant events in our past. Now run by English Heritage, the original plaques were erected by the Society of ...

14/11/2023

Stepping off Lower Thames Street and back 1800 years in the past to visit the remains of a dwelling and a bath house from Roman London.

12/11/2023

The British Museum has a colossal sculpture of an Egyptian scarab - the manifestation of the god Khepri, who moved the sun across the heavens.

10/11/2023

London’s ‘street art alley’

Underneath Waterloo Station is the capital's most exuberant (and constantly changing) gallery of street art.

10/11/2023

The Star Carr headdress in the British Museum - made over 10,000 years ago.

The British Museum has one of the Star Carr headdresses on display - an antler skull worn by our ancestors more than 10,000 years ago.

02/11/2023

We’re back!

Two new online events this month - “A history of London in eight (and a bit) structures” and “Bletchley Park and the WW2 codebreakers”. Both talks are in aid of charity.

Follow link in bio for full details.

30/10/2023

Bletchley Park is synonymous with technological innovation and ingenuity, often being referred to as one of the birthplaces of modern computing.

During World War Two, Bletchley Park saw the implementation of the world's first programmable digital computer, Colossus. The first Colossus was delivered to Bletchley Park in January 1944, with 10 of these hi-tech machines being in use at Bletchley Park by the end of the war.

Each weighing around a ton, these machines were deployed to help the Codebreakers tackle the high level traffic that was sent using the Lorenz cipher machine.



© Crown Copyright. Reproduced by kind permission, Director GCHQ

28/10/2023

Another online talk from us, all proceeds will go to The Brain Tumour Charity, so give what you can afford.

29 November at 7:00pm (London time). If you can't make that date buy your ticket and we'll send you the recording afterwards.

Discover the story of Bletchley Park, home of the codebreakers of WW2 whose work might have shortened the war by up to two years and saved millions of lives.

Discover the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreakers & the cracking of Enigma in this online talk. All proceeds to The Brain Tumour Charity

24/10/2023

Now that the nights are drawing in, we're going to do a few online talks this winter.

First will be a talk for charity (so no fixed ticket price, just donations according to what you can afford).

We've got a list of some potential subjects, so follow the link to cast your vote as to what you'd like to see.

We're going to do a couple of talks this winter for charity - choose from the list below which one(s) you would like us to do.

22/10/2023

The Golden Boy of Pye Corner - a monument to the Great Fire of London, and a marker for where 'resurrection men' once plied their trade.

03/10/2023

Morning all.

25/09/2023

From Henry VII to Ted Lasso in just a couple of steps, as we look at the palace of Richmond, 'Royal Beasts', the Wars of the Roses and a fictional football club.

16/09/2023

“The finest barn in Europe”

Inigo Jones’s St Paul’s church in Covent Garden.

24/07/2023

Under the Bloomberg European headquarters building in the City is the ‘London Mithraeum’, a glimpse into an obscure part of Roman London. Obscure not just because many of the rituals of the cult/religion of Mithras are unknown to us - these rituals were communicated from initiates to novices by ...

12/04/2023

The London Society - SOHO UNPLUGGED | full recording

26/01/2023

On a refurbished Edwardian office block at 13-15 York Buildings - just down from Strand on the way to Embankment Gardens - is a green City of Westminster plaque that was unveiled by HMQ on Valentine’s day 2019. It commemorates the first home - and the centenary of the founding - of the ‘Governme...

22/09/2022

Newton, Hawking, Darwin and Dirac - some of the famous scientists commemorated in Westminster Abbey.

20/08/2022

Description Over the centuries, London’s Tower has played many roles. It has been a royal palace, an impregnable fortress, a prison for monarchs’ enemies, a site of executions (including those of three queens of England), an armory, the Royal Mint, and even a zoo. Today it is home to the Beefeat...

22/06/2022

One of London's smallest and most delightful museums is just a stone's throw from the Tower of London, in a building that is 400 years older than the Tower itself.

04/05/2022

Online Talk Sunday 8 May 7pm
Oxford University: Legends and Traditions

Why do some of the cleverest people in Britain sing songs as they follow a man carrying a duck on a stick? Why is Oxford time five minutes behind the rest of the UK? When is ‘beating the bounds’, and why would you do this in a department store? Who were the ‘bulldogs’, and what did they do? How do you dress for exams, and just what is ‘matriculation’?

All this and more in Don Brown's exploration of undergraduate life in the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/296336098247

Discover some of the stranger traditions of Oxford University in this 60 minute Zoom talk.

11/04/2022

Join us this Thursday for our latest online talk: the biography of Winston Churchill - https://mailchi.mp/cea9f3b57d9d/join-us-this-thursday-the-biography-of-winston-churchill

07/04/2022

Six slightly obscure things to look out for when you visit the Churchill War Rooms - from the clocks to the means to summon the butler.

06/04/2022