Return to the View from the Shard
Just over four years ago, a bright morning had me up at the top of the Shard for a look. Time to go back for another look.
Events And Tours
Ticket Alert: Behind the scenes tours of building sites
The semi-annual Open Doors event is back, offering a peek behind the hoardings that cover up building sites.
Gun Salutes in London during 2017
Big guns go bang bang several times each year in London, at the Tower of London and in the Royal Parks.
There will be fun at the British Library with Victorian Entertainments
Roll up, roll up, be amazed and astonished, magic to astound, entertainments to delight, all the fun of the Victorian music hall and stage.
The early American film star who made it good in London
There’s a space at the BFI which hosts small exhibitions to actors past, and at the moment, it’s devoted to one of the movie world’s earliest African-American stars, who was almost as well known for his socialist views.
Magically Marvelous Mechanical Maths
As the world miniaturises and computerises, the Science Museum has opened a new gallery that delights in the massive mechanics of mathematics.
Just like that – V&A acquires Tommy Cooper’s Fez
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) recently acquired one of Tommy Cooper’s famous fezzes, and it has just gone on display.
Landscape photos on display at Waterloo station
A display of the winners of the annual Landscape Photographer of the Year competition have gone on display, in Waterloo railway station.
Catching the Tower Bridge free ferry
It was supposed to happen last weekend, but didn’t. It was supposed to happen yesterday, but didn’t. It is supposed to happen next weekend, but wont.
Exhibition looks at how WW1 supported independence activists
A modest, but historically fascinating view of an often unseen aspect of WW1 has gone on display in the sumptuous Maughan Library.
The Ladybird Life of Charles Dickens: an illustrated adventure
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?
London gets a new museum – of police history
A new museum has opened in the City of London that tells the long often curious history of their own private police force.
An astonishing display of an obsessive collection of film facts
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.
AIDS quilt goes on display for first time in two decades
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.
The Ladybird Book’s illustrated life of Charles Dickens
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.
Give the gift of Museum Membership this Christmas
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.
Take a tour of St Paul Cathedral’s hidden Triforum
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.
Punk retrospective at the Museum of London
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.
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