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There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also …

Lots of stuff to get through today, but we’re starting small (sort of) with the immortalisation (sort of) of old favourite Tox as pictured above. Cheers to dr seagate for the link and photo. It’s not quite the Tate Modern, but it’s a (small) step …

We’re suckers for anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, after all, London is sweeter for his presence. We even watched that cartoon which had him thawed out and solving crimes on the moon. So while browsing the Detective Fiction on Stamps homepage at 5 am …

There can be few buildings in Europe to match the splendor of the Palace of Westminster. Millions of tourists, some of them off-worlders, flock to the landmark each year, even if few actually enter. But a couple of weeks back (and sorry to keep going …

OK, that pun didn’t quite work, but we’re not the Daily Mirror, you know. Our cack-handed wordplay heralds some news just in about London’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Early adventures of the former Baker Street resident are to be re-serialised by Stanford University. Starting …

If Londonist ever had to get itself a ‘board of directors’ a few names would immediately spring to mind: Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd…and Lee Jackson. Lee is the author of three historical thrillers as well as a huge, illustrated book on Victorian London. He is …

We can’t really say that A View to a Kill was one of our favourite Bond movies, but it did have its moments. Grace Jones as May Day leaping from the Eiffel Tower leaving a past-his-prime Roger Moore to raise an iconic eyebrow after her …

The Cottingley Fairy hoax is one of Londonist’s favourite ever scams. The fact that two sweet little girls could pull the wool over the eyes of so many (including Arthur Conan Doyle, although he was already a bit dotty by that point) is, we think, …

It sounds like the title for a classroom presentation by a socially awkward nine-year-old, but according to Prospect’s events listing for November (PDF file), tonight the Institute of Electrical Engineers is hosting a talk by the author Deborah Moggach, entitled My Fantasy Art Collection. Now, …