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View of the week: Museum of Curiosity
Mike Snelle’s pop-up Museum of Curiosity in Soho is what you would get it you threw the Natural History Museum, the Soane Museum and Lassco into a cooking pot, and seasoned the mix with pinches of Keith Lo Bue, Adbusters, Lewis Carroll and VAST. There’s a distinct whiff of the Museum of Jurassic Technology about the place too, which my mate Physicus just reminded me of. […]
Plaque spotting: John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946)
October 7, 2011
John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor who perhaps deserves the same iconic pioneer status given to Tim Berners-Lee. Both men invented a new form of communication that literally changed the world. In the case of Berners-Lee, it was the world wide web. In the case of John Logie Baird, it […]
From Casanova’s courtesan to Catholic ministries: the newly-restored St Patrick’s on Soho Square
June 3, 2011
St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, on the eastern side of colourful Soho Square, has reopened after 14 months of renovations, at a cost of £3.5 million. New additions include a marble apse, a new baptistry chapel housing relic images, and an extensive underground fit-out – industrial kitchen, prayer room, classroom, offices and a community room. The church […]
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
- 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
November 24, 2012
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