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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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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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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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Life and Work on the Tower RNLI Lifeboat Pier

By Myfanwy Boudry / 5 May 2020 /

…The Telegraph. Available at: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/11030958/A-night-on-the-Thames-with-the-busiest-RNLI-station-in-Britain.html RNLI Helm collects MBE from Her Majesty the Queen (2018) RNLI. Available at: https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2018/november/13/rnli-helm-collects-mbe-from-her-majesty-the-queen Tower Lifeboat Station: https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/lifeboat-stations/tower-lifeboat-station @TowerRNLI https://twitter.com/towerrnli Unlikely hero saves man from…

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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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True harmony and brotherhood

By Susan Snell / 28 February 2017 /

…of Freemasonry  [email protected] Sources [1] See ‘The Strand: Introductory and historical’, Old and New London: Volume 3 (1878), pp. 59-63 <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45133&strquery=high+street> [Date accessed: 21 March 2011]. [2] ‘The Strand:…

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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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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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Lord Nelson and the Strand

By Jane Wildgoose / 1 February 2017 /

…Engraving Neatly Executed’.((See: “Trade card/print,” “Collection online”, Museum number D,2.98, British Museum website, http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3043177&partId=1 (accessed April 6, 2016). The card, from the collection of Sarah Sophia Banks, has ‘1806’ (the…

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Aldwych: a not so abandoned station just below us

By Myfanwy Boudry / 21 April 2020 /

…[Online] Available at: https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/aldwych-holborn-branch-line/ “Travel here and back” In: Harrow Leader – Friday 10 March 1989, [Online] Available at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ Wignall, K. Aldwych ghost station (2018) [Online] Available at: https://lookup.london/aldwych-ghost-station/…

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