A modest, but historically fascinating view of an often unseen aspect of WW1 has gone on display in the sumptuous Maughan Library.
Charles Dickens was a famous author who lived in a house in London for a while. The house is now a museum. Have you been?
A new museum has opened in the City of London that tells the long often curious history of their own private police force.
Never has a database ever looked so beautiful. If the IMDB website were ever to be printed out on old computer punch cards, this is what it would look like.
Next weekend will be the first chance to see the UK’s AIDS Memorial Quilt as it goes on display for the first time in 20 years.
A collection of original illustrations by Thomas the Tank Engine artist, John Kenney, have gone on display at the Charles Dickens museum, to celebrate the life of the novelist.
If you want to give something this Christmas that your recipient can use all year round, rather than socks and fragrances… give them a membership pack for a museum they like to visit.
If you were to walk up the spiral staircase to St Paul Cathedral’s famous whispering gallery, you might notice locked doors leading to hidden places, and behind one of them lurks a marvel.
How to make a person feel old — tell them that what they did as an act of youthful rebellion is now in a museum as a treasured artifact.
Part of a busy pedestrian route near Waterloo station is about to be partially sealed off — for a PR stunt.
An exhibition of some of the finds from one of the largest archaeological sites ever dug in London has gone on display in the Museum of London.
It was missing when I did the first list, but the astonishing electrical control room at Woking will be open to the public as part of the Heritage Open Days next weekend.
Through a locked gate, down a road past more locked gates, and here on the edges of London is a grand building which played a very secretive role during WW2.
The bookings pages apparently open tomorrow (Thur 18th Aug) for next month’s annual Open House Weekend.
A series of events in the city to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London will culminate in a 120 metre long panorama of the ancient city being set alight while floating on the Thames.
The Barbican library has put on a display of “zines”, those self-printed pamphlet style magazines that marked a certain sub-culture which still needed to promote and communicate.
Three lovely places to visit should you fancy a visit to the small town of Bushey
It’s difficult to imagine, but one of the best views of London, and a wonderful park to walk through are but a few minutes from the Jubilee line.
A long cavernous space within the Science Museum has been filled with over 160 retro computer games, from the earliest Pong to fairly recent 3D virtual reality headsets.
The weekend before London Open House Weekend, the rest of the UK does exactly the same thing, with a couple of thousand venues open to visit as part of Heritage Open Days.
A sixth of London’s population made homeless, emergency camps erected in the fields, proclamations offering assistance to the destitute.
A new tube map has been released showing of the London Underground’s art installations, and this coming Sunday, there is a chance to tour of some of those artworks.
The month long Thames oriented festival has published the details of what it is putting on this year.
For two hundred years, you’ve been a grand stately building in a prime part of London, but just recently, holes have been knocked in your backside, and lots of modern art scattered around your grand rooms.
