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Thames trivia for the Jubilee

If you’re following the route of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant today, here’s a handful of boaty Thames…

Inside the Cutty Sark

I’m on the HMS Beagle Project blog this week talking about the freshly-opened Cutty Sark in Greenwich. She’s…

“Wealth and beggary, vice and virtue”: Dickens and London at the Museum of London

Dickens and London was always going to be a challenge for the Museum of London. Should they focus…

Once Upon a Wartime at the Imperial War Museum

The Imperial War Museum London’s latest temporary exhibition claims to delve “into the pages of well-loved books, bringing…

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