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Captain Cook: Hummingbird nest
For the second installment in my series on London sites and objects relating to the great naval explorer Captain James Cook (1728 – 1779), I direct your attention back to the British Museum‘s Enlightenment Wing, where you will find a tiny hummingbird nest measuring about 45mm in diameter. This nest, believed to belong to the glittering-bellied emerald hummingbird, is significant as one of the few remaining zoological […]
A phone, a Faraday, and a Royal Institution
September 30, 2011
Next time you’re window-shopping the streets of Mayfair, there are two good reasons to drop in to Brown’s Hotel on Albermarle Street. The first is to enjoy a posh high tea in the hotel’s award-winning English Tea Room. The second is a chance to see a telephone. (Photo courtesy of Brown’s Hotel website) Not just any old […]
See them down in Soho Square…
April 26, 2011
Last week we took a walk through vibrant Soho Square in west London. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe immortalized the square in their song “Why Can’t the English?” from the musical My Fair Lady: …Hear them down in Soho Square, dropping “h’s” everywhere, speaking English any way they like… Like all of early London, this land […]
Bloomsbury Bytes
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- View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making March 16, 2013
January 26, 2012
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