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Gobbets of the week #7

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Here are links to our 10 favourite gobbets of London history this week:

1. Another great London photo from @imagefreak: ‘Big Time’, a long exposure of the Thames by Big Ben.

2. Inked Spires: a lovely project to draw 48 of London’s spires & domes.

3. The 264th anniversary of the death of Thomas Coram, creator of the Foundling Hospital.

4. With news that the Museum of London may relocate to old market buildings in Smithfield, here’s there post on Smithfield’s history.

5. The story of the notorious Ratcliffe Highway murders.

6. Trinity Square Gardens: the ‘a London inheritance’ blogger takes another journey back in time via his Father’s photographs.

7. William Caxton’s house in the almonry on Thorney Island, Westminster.

8. The ruins of Christ Church Greyfriars and the grave of a she-wolf. Another great post from the Flickering Lamps blog.

9. The story behind a Thames Foreshore find: a London tradesman’s token of 1666.

 

10. Westminster Hall decked out for the coronation banquet of George II.

Gobbets of the week! #6

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Here are links to our 10 favourite gobbets of London history this week:

1. A lovely short video about Magna Carta, narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones.

2. Sifting through the stories about the London Stone.

3. Primary source accounts of the trial of King Charles I.

4. How the story unfolded about the 1000 lb WW2 bomb found in Bermondsey this week.

5. Jeremy Bentham’s mummified head!

6. The Supremes in Manchester Square, 1965.

7. The creation of London’s great docks in the 19th century.

8. A short video explaining the order London’s many bridges were built in.

9. Lovely woodcuts from @thegentleauthor in John Thomas Smith’s ancient topography.

10. Before you change yours tonight, a look at London’s more unusual clocks.

 

Gobbets of the week #5!

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Here are links to our top 10 gobbets of London history this week:

1. Following our own visit to Pudding Lane – the Flickering Lamps blog looks at Pye Corner: flames, poltergeists and bodysnatchers.

2. Playhouses in Elizabethan London.

3. Clay Pipes: the Urban Archaeology Clay Tobacco Pipe Factsheet!

4. Patrick Baty: the Great Paint Detective explains 300 years of decoration at Queen Anne’s Gate.

5. The Imperial War Museum explores fashion during WW2.

6. Liam Farrell’s lovely painting of St Mary Aldermary.

7. Sealed not signed: @LondonHistorian enjoyed the Magna Carta exhibition.

8. More drawings of Wren churches: great blog by Nick Richards.

9. London’s favourite Fourth Plinth artwork.

10. A tailor’s history of Savile Row.