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Stories, snapshots and sneak peeks of life in and around the streets of London.
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Spitalfields – visual feast & cultural pot pourri
In Spitalfields, racks of vintage dresses jostle for space with chain stores and bespoke retailers. A thriving Bangladeshi community buzzes alongside 17th and 18th century Huguenot silk weavers’ terrace houses. Narrow lanes lead to edgy art galleries and old-style pubs. A Christian church, a mosque and a synagogue all stand within a few blocks of each […]
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
May 2, 2011
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