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A phone, a Faraday, and a Royal Institution
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 […]
John Murray Publishers
August 28, 2011
On Albermarle Street in Mayfair, just off Piccadilly, stands John Murray Publishers. Founded in 1768 by John Murray (1737 – 1793), and run for over two centuries by a succession of John Murrays until its takeover by Hachette, John Murray Publishers was responsible for producing several landmark English texts, most famously the works of poet Lord Byron and […]
London’s best address? (The) Albany, Piccadilly
June 14, 2011
The Albany is discreetly positioned in Albany Court Yard, just off bustling Piccadilly, but it might be another world away. Drawing above, circa 1830, by Thomas H. Shepherd (1792 – 1864). The only difference between then and now seems to be the mode of transport, and the changing fashion for putting a “the” in front of the word […]
Bloomsbury Bytes
- Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St May 16, 2013
- In Search of Classical Greece April 3, 2013
- View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making March 16, 2013
September 30, 2011
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