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Londonist Stays In

Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV over the coming week. Monday The Real Pink Panther: Lord Victor Hervey (C4, 20.00-21.00) Gentleman thief Lord Hervey was jailed in the 1930s for a couple of Mayfair jewellery robberies. All cracking stuff, but we want to …

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Testing the Telectroscope

Image courtesy of randydandy via the Londonist Flickr pool Right, so Gothamist isn’t returning our phone calls, and we can only assume that they’re not going to take us up on our Telectroscope dance challenge. Chickens. Dance-off or not, we wanted to check out the …

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The Mesmeric Lee Jackson And Victorian London

Any true London lover will, by now, have found the Victorian London web site. This virtual portemanteau of 19th Century source material is compiled by Lee Jackson, whom Londonist interviewed a few years back. We caught up with him again in the Princess Louise pub …