Congratulations to Dan Griliopoulos, winner of our Medical London competition. We asked for a piece of trivia connected with medicine in London, and Dan provided this: The premier London medical story has to be that of Samuel Pepys’ stone. Not the actual operation – which …
Random trivia of the week: In what role did a 5-year-old Michael Palin make his acting debut in his preparatory school’s performance of A Christmas Carol? You’ll find the answer (it’s not as obvious as you might think) – and more appearances by both Palin …
A duchess, a PM’s wife and a queen of the bestsellers all make an appearance in this week’s events around town. And you thought literary London would just go quietly into hibernation until after the holidays… Wednesday: Medical London historian Richard Barnett and editor Mike …
Tra la, it’s May, the lusty month of May – and we, apparently, feel like singing. Is it the gorgeous weather? The lovely literary events in our diary? Our trips up and down the too-hot-to-trot Northern Line? The Pimm’s coursing through our veins? (No, surely …
Cadbury creme eggs! Don’t you just love ’em? Ha ha, the book grocer sure does! Advance apologies if this week’s serving is full of even more exclamations than usual – we just might be hyped up on milk chocolatey goodness right now. Eventually we’ll crash, …
Beware the pornographic perils of Bluetooth Chelsea Barracks sold for incredible £959 million – expect imminent Sloane explosion as 2000 luxury apartments move in Afghanistan soldiers’ exhibition up for award at National Army Museum Home time warning – trains between London and Milton Keynes are …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 5th November 1605: Following a tip-off, a party of armed men led by a Justice of the Peace discover Guy Fawkes guarding a large amount of gunpowder and incendiary materials in the vaults under the House of Lords. …
London Ambulance Service is the best. And it has the best blogger, too. Just as well, because gun crime has risen 10%. Free wifi on London to Milton Keynes bus route. At last, a reason to go to the new town. Securitas robbers sported ‘false …
Naomi Klein, in conversation with Madeleine Bunting Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 13th September 2007 “I am not a conspiracy theorist“, insists Naomi Klein. Twice, in quick succession. Followed each time by a nervous laugh; a telling laugh. We are in the spacious surroundings of the …
Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, will talk about her new book The Shock Doctrine tomorrow evening at the South Bank Centre. Sounds like it’s going to be a big seller… Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting, Klein reveals that …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 4th June 1762: A newly installed peal of ten bells at St Mary-le-Bow church in the City is rung for the first time to mark the 25th birthday of George III. Tuesday – 5th June 1734: The Bank …
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