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Gobbets of the week #29

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Here are links to the 10 gobbets of London history we liked best this week:

1. #PepysShow! Previews of the eagerly awaited exhibition, Samuel Pepys – Plague, Fire, Revolution – at the National Maritime Museum – by J D Davies (author of Pepys’s Navy), Londonist and the Guardian.

  

2. Pepys once bought a leg of beef for sixpence at Leadenhall Market, on the site of the Roman Forum and visited by the Memoirs of a Metro Girl blog. On a similar subject, a lovely piece from Spitalfields Life featuring Liam O’Farrell’s sketches of London Markets. 

3. Hi-res images of historical London maps! 

4. From a blog I haven’t featured before: Sequins and Cherry Blossom visits Riceyman Steps: a Clerkenwell tour in the footsteps of Arnold Bennett. 

5. Inside the House of Cyn: remembering London’s most famous brothel-keeper. 

  

6. ‘Simply wonderfully produced. Lavish …great pleasure between its covers… a treasure. Treat yourself.’ Praise indeed – London Historians reviews Panorama of the Thames: a riverside view of Georgian London. 

7. Sadly a wet day, and overshadowed by the awful events in Paris the night before: the Lord Mayor’s Show was 800 on Saturday. In case you missed it, here’s Rob Lordan’s excellent guide in Time Out. 

  
8. More from Spitalfields Life: ‘a mighty piece of kitsch’: Hogarth at Bart’s Hospital 

9. The Footprints of London festival explores London’s deep literary heritage. Mark Rowlands, the festival’s Chairman, was interviewed on the Robert Elms show. 

10. The Blitz: Peter Watts writes of missing buildings and false memories. 

Gobbets of the week #25

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Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history we liked this week: 

1. Moving a Wren tower from the Square Mile to Twickenham.

2. The man who made Soho glow. 

3. Samuel Pepys at St Olave’s. 

 

Samuel Pepys’ monument at St Olave Hart Street

 
4. London’s rumoured secret tunnels! 

5. The sightlines of St Paul’s Cathedral 

 

St Paul’s at dawn from New Change

 
6. The Blitz and bomb damage maps. 

7. Two pieces from the Guildhall Library blog: Magna Carta and Surveys and plans of Victorian London’s docks and wharves. 

 

The Magna Carta at the Guildhall

 
8. Experiences of the theatre in post-Medieval London.

9. A Tudor hunting lodge on the outskirts of London 

10. Housing ‘poor men‘ in Greenwich. 

Gobbets of the week

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Here are links to 10 gobbets of London history that caught our eye recently:

1. Rob Lloyd, author of the excellent restoration London thriller The Bloodless Boy is seeking feedback on the first chapter of his sequel.

2. When London’s streets were paved with wood.

3. Distaff Lane: how City streets have changed over the centuries .

4. Dan Cruikshank on the Euston Arch.

5. Churchill’s funeral via British Pathe.

6. A new approach to mapping London

7. “The Anatomizer’s Ground” – Uncovering the history of St Olave’s, Silver Street.

8. A new design for the Pepys’ Diary website.

9. Sir Charles Bressey’s unimplemented ‘improvements’ to London (1937).

10. A love letter to London by @thegentleauthor.