palace of westminster

Londony annivesaries for a bank holiday Monday morning.

More Londony trivia for a Monday morning.

Londony anniversaries this week, and other trivia.

This week in London’s history: murders, epic horseback journeys, the rebuilding of a palace and the inspiration for a well-known landmark.

This week’s seasonal photo presents a less-common view of the Palace of Westminster.

The identity of the Gothic clock tower at the Palace of Westminster is like flypaper to pedants and counter-pedants. Any time someone refers to ‘Big Ben’, anywhere on the web, you can guarantee there will be a comment within minutes pointing out that Big Ben …

Last week’s extremely important numbers translated into one handy, illustrative photo… 250 elephants are coming to town 500 books released into the wild for Festival of Asian Literature 12 hours of Londonist liveblogging the election results – yes, we did it! 28 nominations for theatre …

In honour of London’s brilliant Virgin Marathon yesterday, we grace this week’s edition of Monday Miscellanea with picture 25,410 from the Londonist Flickr pool, so we can all remember a great (if exhausting) start to the summer on 25 April 2010. We hope all the …

Politicians and journalists have a reputation for enjoying a drink from time to time. No surprise, then, to learn that there are more bars around the centre of government than in your typical high street. With a daily population in excess of 10,000 people, many …

Fifty five hale Greenpeace protesters scaled the rooftop of the Palace of Westminster last night ready to greet MPs returning from summer break with an unmissable neon protest for action on climate change. With the Copenhagen summit just weeks away Greenpeace have produced a 12 …