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London History Day 2019

By Francesca Allfrey / 14 May 2019 /

Greening Aldwych: A walking tour of lost and future green spaces of Aldwych 31 May 2019 12:30pm – 2:00pm Free! Booking required (link opens Eventbrite booking page). Join the Strandlines…

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The Mau Mau Case: Post-Colonial Justice on the Strand

By Théophraste Fady / 7 October 2019 /

…graphic description of the horrors committed by the British on all four of claimants. I will briefly cover the testimony of one of the victims to highlight the necessity of…

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Tours

By Graham Duncan / 24 July 2019 / Comments Off on Tours

…free self-guided tours to explore lesser-visited parts of the city. Each tour has a different theme, and focusses on a slightly different section of the Strand. Explore the tours below,…

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Greening Aldwych: a walking tour of lost and future green spaces of Aldwych

By Francesca Allfrey / 7 July 2019 / Comments Off on Greening Aldwych: a walking tour of lost and future green spaces of Aldwych

…The Cloud wifi, available for free around Aldwych. [wpgmza id=”2″] Stops Stop 1: 171 Strand Stop 2: Clearing St Clements Stop 3: Unexpected blooms Stop 4: Australia House Stop 5:…

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Greening Aldwych: a walking tour of lost and future green spaces of Aldwych

By Strandlines Editors / 7 July 2019 /

…for free in central London. The tour explores how different locations around Aldwych have moved through different shades of green over the last three hundred years. We look at the…

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Eighteenth-century lives in Devereux Court

By Micah Neale / 12 June 2019 /

…and a warehouse all growing into one communicating complex of buildings. The real Greek at the Grecian Coffee House The Devereux pub today. Going round the dog-leg and facing south…

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Catch up with Maureen Duffy and Liz Mathews in conversation

By Katie Webb / 22 December 2020 /

On 25th November 2020, we held an online event to celebrate the launch of Strandlines‘s special collection on Maureen Duffy. We heard from Maureen about her latest work; the forthcoming…

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Who put the Villiers in Villiers Street? Art, culture and élite life on the seventeenth-century Strand

By Leonie James / 30 November 2020 /

…have been able to hear the sound of ‘the ceilings of rooms [being] supported with iron bolts, balconies clapped up in the old walls [and] daubed all over with finishing…

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The Strand as photographed by Anthony Frank Kersting

By Francesca Allfrey / 11 August 2020 /

…slated to complete by 2022. Currently, only a tiny fraction of Kersting’s work is available online. Much of that has been shared on the Courtauld Digital Media blog, in posts…

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#MyStrand: Justin Sherin, playwright and screenwriter

By Francesca Allfrey / 6 July 2020 /

…room I felt less lonely. Now the archives are online it’s a good way to daydream and avoid writing. The Bishopsgate Institute is especially good. Charles Goss (1864-1946) created their…

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