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- The British Library explores the dark arts of Propaganda
- A look around an empty office block in Victoria
- Steam trains to run along part of the Central Line in June
- How to get tickets to the 2013 Last Night of the Proms
- A few Crossrail construction site photos
- Public Tours of HMS Illustrious Next Weekend
- Tom Daley’s swimming trunks become a Museum artefact
- Cyclists wanted to test “Dutch Roundabouts”
- Thoughts about the Acid on the Jubilee Line
- 20 years ago – Queen announces public tours of Buckingham Palace
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20 years ago – Queen announces public tours of Buckingham Palace
Posted on April 29, 2013 | No CommentsToday marks the 20th anniversary of the announcement that Buckingham Palace would open to the public during the summers. -
Westminster Council is selling off its street signs
Posted on April 26, 2013 | 6 CommentsAn unusual auction is coming up next month with a change to acquire some rather unique -- and based on the estimate prices -- curiously cheap bits of London memorabilia. -
Preparations for a funeral
Posted on April 14, 2013 | 3 CommentsWhen a major event takes place in London, along comes the paraphernalia of ceremony to control and to broadcast. -
Dare you enter the Micrarium?
Posted on April 7, 2013 | 1 CommentA small room inside a small museum has been given over to the small displays of the small of the animal kingdom. A glowing cupboard surrounded on three sides by bugs, beetles. beasties and bacillus. -
The curious history of the kitchen mixing bowl
Posted on April 2, 2013 | 4 CommentsOver the past hundred years or so, almost every object in the domestic kitchen has been adapted to changing needs and fashions of society. But there is one object that is almost unchanged since it was first made over a century ago. -
What lies hidden in Canary Wharf’s steel plant pots
Posted on March 28, 2013 | 2 CommentsIf you travel around Canary Wharf, or some parts of the City of London, you cannot fail to notice large steel plant pots that have sprung up around buildings. -
Massive bronze Polo sculptures sitting in Docklands
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsOn the opposite side of the docks from the City Airport can be found a remnant of London 2012 artistic endeavours, in the form of a large set of bronze sculptures. -
My bookcase is empty
Posted on March 7, 2013 | 6 CommentsIt's World Book Day today. At least it is in the UK. The rest of the world marks World Book Day in April. On World Book Day, my bookcase is empty. -
There is a conference taking place
Posted on February 20, 2013 | 1 CommentHow do I know there is a conference taking place? Because I see a surge in press releases from a range of organisations all making announcements about the same area of research or products all at the same time. -
75th anniversary of the first science-fiction show on BBC TV
Posted on February 11, 2013 | 3 CommentsToday marks the 75th anniversary of the first ever time a robot appeared on British television - indeed, probably on television anywhere in the world.