Emily Davison, Emily Davidson – Census Night 1911
Emily Davison famously stowed away in a crypt in the House of Commons on Census night 1911. Women were essentially trying …
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Emily Davison Channel 4’s Programme
Clare Balding’s Channel 4 documentary about Emily Wilding Davison was well researched. I had never seen the close-up photograph of …
Suffragette attack on Lloyd-George
I was intereviewed on Radio Kent today about it being the centenary of the Suffragette attack on David Lloyd-George’s house. …
# Greenwich’s Olympic disruption
Greenwich stages the start of the London Marathon every year. In terms of runners, it’s the second largest marathon in …
#Emirates cable car white elephant
I had been very positive about the new Emirates cable car (see previous blog). But I’ve just checked out the …
#Emirates Cable-Car
The Emirates Cable-Car (actually it’s what skiers would call a gondola rather than a cable car) opens Thursday June 28. …
horrible olde london
Horrible Olde London My Horrible Olde London and Ye Olde City of London walks both cover the Great Fire of …
Call the Midwife’s Poplar – #Call the Midwife
At first glance at today’s Poplar, an emjoyable walk around the places featured in Call the Midwife looks impossible. The …
Olympic Walks – Too Little Too Soon
With the Olympic Park closed until the start of the Olympics (and even then it’ll only be open to event …
Shakespeare in London – #williamshakespeare
The Rose (the first to built, in 1587), the Globe and the Swan were all built in late Elizabethan times, …
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