Gobbets of the week #28

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

1. The London that might have been: architectural wonders (and monstrosities) that never got past the drawing board.

2. Slashing throats for 170 years: the ‘real’ Sweeney Todd.

3. As we approach the 800th Lord Mayor’s show, a video of the 1967 event...

4. …another showing just how they get the Lord Mayor’s coach out of the Museum of London…

5. …and a song about the Lord Mayor’s coachman!

6. Two London artists from London Historians: Celebrating Hogarth and Gillray’s Ghost.

7. The grizzly story of Bunhill Fields.

9. More ‘from the City to the Sea’: part IV – the Thames Estuary; part V – the Thames at night.

Gobbets of the week #27

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

1. Six degrees of Francis Bacon: mapping 16th century social networks.

2. Parliament and Votes for Women.

4. Following the sad death of historian Lisa Jardine, some tributes: (1) the Guardian; (2) apollo magazine; (3) from her BBC producer; (4) another BBC tribute, including links to some of her best ‘Points of View’ eposodes; and (5) her Desert Island Discs.

5. Exhibition review: E H Shepard at war

6. St Bart’s Hospital Museum: a hidden gem with a 900 year old story to tell.

9. From the ‘A London Inheritance’ blog, a journey along the Thames from the City to the Sea: part 1: Tower Pier to Greenwich; part 2: Greenwich to Barking Creek; part 3: Barking Creek to Southend.

10. …and finally, a Halloween Special from blackcablondon. Scary London Scenes from film and TV. Part 1 and Part 2.