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By Clare Brant / 5 July 2015 / Comments Off on Blog

…Lions is a webcomic retelling the story of the Gunpowder Plot. It’s being published in instalments at http://webcomics.mazhemart.co.uk/comic/thirteen-lions/. While the conspiracy is currently in its infancy, there’s already been a…

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Cabinet of Artists

By Clare Brant / 7 October 2015 / Comments Off on Cabinet of Artists

…teaches on the MA Museums & Galleries course at Kingston University, where her practice-based PhD research focuses on the collection and interpretation of human skulls and hair in late Victorian…

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Voices from the Strand – Peter Babington, Priest in charge of St. Mary-Le-Strand

By Tristan Tetteroo / 9 June 2021 /

…history, AND another video to be released in the coming days with special news from St. Mary’s.     For more information on St. Mary’s services please visit: https://stmarylestrand.com  …

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Shaw scammed

By Elizabeth Crawford / 31 May 2018 /

for Women, and in 1912 had been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment, found guilty of conspiracy to commit damage to property. This charge resulted from the mass demonstration on 1…

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Three Poems for Strandlines by Ruth O’Callaghan

By Strandlines Editors / 15 April 2019 /

Ruth O’Callaghan starred in Strandlines 1.0’s ‘Cabinet of Artists’. She is an acclaimed poet, mentor, reviewer, adjudicator and workshop leader: see ruthocallaghan.wordpress.com for further details of her published poems and

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Panoramas, Dress Circles and Tubes

By Hope Wolf / 8 November 2010 /

…1830 the Strand panorama became a dissenting chapel; in 1832 an unpatented theatre – audiences were admitted free provided that they bought sweets from local shops: rose lozenges for the…

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Strand Lane: Getting into the Bath

By Michael Trapp / 1 February 2017 /

…Parks, Gardens and Open Spaces team, you can also get in – with the extra benefit of a knowledgeable guide – by joining Somerset House’s free Old Palace Tour, which…

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Rapid and joyous bells

By Clare Brant / 5 May 2018 /

…reconsecrated. The BBC has generously made available for free sixteen thousand sound effects, including these recordings, via bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk They’re described as ‘Church Bells, ringing down with rapid, joyous & random…

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The Sudanese Writers Union

By Francesca Allfrey / 15 June 2020 / Comments Off on The Sudanese Writers Union

…in defending the right of writers to be free, and in assuring the freedom of all types of cultural expression in the light of basic human rights, liberties and constitutional…

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Anthony Heap’s Strand

By Robin Woolven / 3 September 2018 /

…1934 Saturday 10 February Peculiar weather. Rather dull. Also faint missling [sic] rain at time. Hampstead with Nigger [his dog] home for tea. Changed into evening kit. Bus down to…

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