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Temple Church: Magna Carta and the Knights Templar

By Nell Prince / 12 August 2021 /

…http://www.templechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/magna-carta.pdf. [5] http://www.templechurch.com/history-2/timeline/the-round-church/ [6] Griffith-Jones, R. (n.d.). Magna Carta 2015-2015: London’s Temple and the Road to the Rule of Law. [online] The Temple Church, London. Available at: http://www.templechurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/magna-carta.pdf. [7] “Templar,…

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Life and Work on the Tower RNLI Lifeboat Pier

By Myfanwy Boudry / 5 May 2020 /

…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm4YAlg10sg London helmsman sets Royal National Lifeboat Institution record (2014) BBC News. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-30597197 Richardson, N. (2014) A night on the Thames with the busiest RNLI station in Britain…

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Snapshots from lockdown

By Strandlines Editors / 10 April 2020 /

…15th March https://www.instagram.com/p/B9wJFq8BgwO/ * 16th March https://www.instagram.com/p/B9z6lK7JbqI/ * 18th March https://www.instagram.com/p/B94kzxdHYGO/ * 20th March https://www.instagram.com/p/B99748tAiuz/ * 22nd March Sent to Strandlines by Tom Bilson, @courtaulddigitisation Aldwych South-slightly-East side. Aldwych South-slightly-West…

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Twinings and Lloyds Intertwined

By Heather Tweed / 13 October 2019 /

www.twickenham-museum.org.uk www.twinings.co.uk www.ancestry.co.uk www.lloydsbankinggroup.com http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=tweed&recno=41870 Part Two Information display inside the branch at 222-5 Strand. http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/Our-Group/our-heritage/2015-our-milestone-year/250-years-of-lloyds-bank/branch-stories/law-courts-london/ http://tilesoc.org.uk/tile-gazetteer/westminster.html http://londonist.com/2016/09/is-this-london-s-most-beautiful-bank https://www.innertemple.org.uk/index/the-inner-temple-garden?showall=&start=1 http://chestofbooks.com/gardening-horticulture/Gardener-1/index.html Ed’s Note: This post first appeared as two blogposts on…

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London’s First Taxi Rank – The development of urban folklore?

By Théophraste Fady / 18 June 2021 /

…‘Who Was the Real Robin Hood?’ National Geographic, 6 February 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history/2019/02/who-was-real-robin-hood. Vrkic, Luke. ‘A Very Short History of the Taxi Cab’. Ingogo. Accessed 17 June 2021. https://www.ingogo.com.au/blog/a-very-short-history-of-the-taxi-cab.    …

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Money, Money, Money…

By Nell Prince / 6 December 2021 /

…https://thetab.com/ uk/2021/07/16/these-are-the-25-most-well-endowed-universities-in-the-country-215400 2 https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/how-do-university-endowments-work/ 3 https://www.thewrightcpa.com/how-do-university-endowments-work/ 4 Ibid., 5 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/assets/pdf/statements/2019-2020-financial-statement.pdf 6 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/hr/payequality/index 7 This information according to the latest King’s financial report: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/as- sets/pdf/statements/2019-2020-financial-statement.pdf 8 Ibid., 9 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/assets/pdf/statements/2019-2020-financial-statement.pdf Nell Prince…

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Lord Nelson and the Strand

By Jane Wildgoose / 1 February 2017 /

…on the French at Boulogne((Martyn Downer, “Lost Face of Nelson’s ‘Son’,” Martyn Downer Works of Art website, http://www.martyndowner.com/sale-highlights/lost-face-of-nelsons-son/ (accessed June 15, 2016).)) – he afterwards ‘kept a lock of “dear…

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Aldwych: a not so abandoned station just below us

By Myfanwy Boudry / 21 April 2020 /

…http://underground-history.co.uk/aldwych.php Inside Aldwych, London’s abandoned Underground station (2018) Business Insider [Online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfeU-Q8cGBs “London coolest spots” In: Leeds Mercury – Thursday 14 August 1919 [Online] Available at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ Catford,…

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Essex street’s Watergate: a threshold to the bourgeois Strand

By Myfanwy Boudry / 5 April 2020 /

…street Watergate, [Online] Available at: http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/05/24/the-essex-street-water-gate-london-wc2/ Essex Street steeps, London, DW Windsor, [Online] Available at: https://www.dwwindsor.com/projects/essex-street-steps-london/ Essex Water Gate, Know your London, [Online] Available at: https://knowyourlondon.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/essex-water-gate/ Essex Watergate closing south…

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Life (and Death) beneath the Virtual Strand

By Rob Gallagher / 14 November 2018 /

…but as the inspiration for a space some gamers have spent decades exploring too. [i] http://tomb-of-ash.tumblr.com/post/94071931125/interview-with-andy-sandham-part-ii [ii] http://tomb-of-ash.tumblr.com/post/138947891815/your-ultimate-guide-to-the-real-locations-in-tomb [iii] http://tomb-of-ash.tumblr.com/post/94071931125/interview-with-andy-sandham-part-ii [iv] http://tomb-of-ash.tumblr.com/post/93095805215/interview-with-andy-sandham-core-design [v] http://tomb-of-ash.tumblr.com/post/130331437730/exploring-aldwych-the-real-location-from-tomb [vi] http://tomb-of-ash.tumblr.com/post/93095805215/interview-with-andy-sandham-core-design [vii] http://tomb-of-ash.tumblr.com/post/138947891815/your-ultimate-guide-to-the-real-locations-in-tomb [viii] http://tomb-of-ash.tumblr.com/post/94071931125/interview-with-andy-sandham-part-ii…

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