London tales and stories

Want to know more about quirky London stuff, see inside museums, discover less well-known parts of the capital? Why not follow my blog at www.stuffaboutlondon.co.uk? You can see excerpts from the most recent half a dozen posts below, but there are well over 100 more on the website.

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  • At the top end of Strand opposite the Royal Courts of Justice is Devereux Court. Step off the main road along there and you enter […] The post A lot more than the Da Vinci Code: Temple Church first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • This is a wonderful, scholarly and fun read, an exploration of history and of landscape, as author and archeologist Duncan Mackay follows the Boudiccan uprising […] The post Book Review: Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • You can now watch my recent online talks on the Great Fire of London and Roman Londinium by visiting my new ‘shop‘. After paying a […] The post Shop! Get access to past online talks first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • All you need to know to catch the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace (whether or not you go with Alice). The post Guards! Guards! (And the changing thereof) first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • To The London Archives in Clerkenwell for the small but (genuinely) perfectly formed ‘London in the Second World War’ exhibition. It runs until the end […] The post Exhibition: London in the Second World War first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • To the Barbican on a glorious early spring day when the sky was blue and the sun was warm. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s brutalist City […] The post The Barbican Conservatory: The Hanging Gardens of EC1* first appeared on Stuff About London.