London
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Light Reading: Myth-Busting Mormonism in London
I’m used to barging the charity fundraisers, but I have less experience being accosted by Christians. This is London, famously both a Godless and a multi-faith place. An urban oxymoron…
Light Reading: An Ashram in Bromley
Bromley is not the sort of place you expect to find God. Its focal point, The Glades, is a classically soulless Zone 5 shopping mall…
The Mills Fabrica: A Scientific Spectacle
Fabrica X presents the science in a way that transforms a jaded Londoner into an eager child at a magic show…
Secret Gardens: Visiting London’s Green Spaces
Looking at a map of London, it may amaze you to see just how many green patches have mushroomed in this city...
The Nose: A London Story
An olfactory tour of the city can uncover unexpected dimensions to even its most well-travelled landmarks…
Avenues and Alleyways: Reframing the Streets
It’s easy to think of our neighbourhoods as ordinary, but seeing the familiar as though for the first time brings into focus the beauty of our surroundings...
London’s Fishy History: A Tale of the Thames
A sea of sails made way for fleets of steel, the vessels bringing produce up the Thames grew increasingly swollen, laden with raw materials and a lot – a gruesome lot – of fish…
The Real Farm in Chalk Farm
Gone is the window plastered with cheap junk-food deals. Instead you’ll find trays of what looks like grass, stacked floor to ceiling…
Stained Glass Stunners: A New Kind of Church Going
Stained glass windows are your new reason to visit houses of prayer…
Unpacking the Handbag at the V&A’s Latest Exhibition
Slung over the shoulder, saddled to your side, swinging by your hip, no matter what form it comes in, everybody knows the bag is the ultimate accessory…
On Board The Puppet Theatre Barge
Wandering around the shadowed barge, the romanticism of nomadic living feels like a spell I could fall under...
Following People on Empty Streets: Stalking in a Pandemic
Stalkers now have 24 hours in the day, uninterrupted, to obsess over their victims.
Uncover London: How Very A-mewsing
What do these mews represent? What other places echo in their mix of cobblestones, two-up-two-downs and eye-catching exteriors?
London's Burning: Our Red-Hot Tradition
London has been burnt by accident, by arson, by the IRA. We even have our own nursery rhyme for the occasion, called London’s Burning...
Uncover London: East is the new West(field)
As one passer-by puts it to a companion: ‘People come here, just to come here.’..
Shakespeare to Spoken Word: A Brief History of East London Poets
The East was once the stomping ground of our greatest poets, canons of English Literature and rowdy bards...
Goddess Sanctuary: Where Hollywood Came to Rest
In the aftermath of Hollywood’s Golden Age, in cities all around the world, movie goddesses hid away from the preying eyes in what appeared to be an attempt to preserve their glorious images...
Uncover London: The Subtle Art of Selling Flats
So what product, opportunity and future self is being sold to the viewer by the image above of a flat in London’s exclusive Nine Elms development? And is this future really something to be envious of?
Hitchcock’s London: From Suspense to Cynicism
Whilst not being the first place we may associate him with, the city of London is nonetheless a consistent and intriguing element throughout Hitch’s canon of films...