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View of the week: Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare
This 1756 Palladian folly provides a very pretty riverside addition to the Thames at Hampton. Actor, playwright and theatre manager David Garrick (1717 – 1779) had it constructed to honour England’s most revered playwright and poet, William Shakespeare (c. 1564 – 1616). Inside the temple is a statue of Shakespeare by the sculptor Louis-Francois Roubiliac (c. 1705 – 1762). Read […]
The London Stone – a Roman relic, or just a rock?
May 15, 2011
There is a myth that the London Stone was once part of an altar built by Brutus of Troy, descendant of Aeneas and founder of London. There is even a proverb to go with this story: “So long as the stone of Brutus is safe, so long shall London flourish.” The stone is thought by some to […]
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
December 22, 2011
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