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Let’s All Go Down the Strand – For the Age of Brexit

By Hannah Clayton / 28 October 2019 /

…(have a banana) Bury our heads in sand It’s a place of national pride Not that we’ve got much, you’ll find But let’s all go down the Strand   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNalxKwua6I…

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By Francesca Allfrey / 21 January 2020 /

A geometrical view of the Grand Procession – British Museum – Antoine Benoist via https://www.britishmuseum.org/ The image shows a crowd gathered on the Strand and watching a procession of mock…

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People of the Strand: Fortunatus (died 1601)

By Clare Brant / 12 June 2020 /

…‘another exotic black presence in a high-powered Tudor setting objectified as a human fetish… one more member of a spectral black community gathering in Elizabethan London.’ That spectral community has…

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Voices from the Strand – Dr. Geoffrey Browell @ King’s College Archives

By Geoff Browell / 29 July 2021 /

…unexpected challenges but never dull! By Dr. Geoffrey Browell History is a mystery To learn more, please look at our online exhibitions or explore our catalogues: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archives https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/digital-scholarship https://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/home https://kingscollections.org/catalogues/home…

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Victorian Lives Revealed

By Geoff Browell / 22 April 2017 /

…(U3A) sought to change that and the resulting database, Victorian Lives, is now available online: www.kingscollections.org/victorianlives. The U3A volunteers researched, in great detail, the lives of almost 200 members of…

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People on the Strand: John Nourse and Francis Wingrave, booksellers

By Susan Snell / 4 November 2021 /

…listed in Thomas Osborne’s catalogue, were complete and worth the fifty Guineas demanded.[9] Harris trusted his publisher, Nourse, to contact the wily and abrasive Osborne, who sold the Harleian Collection…

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Cabinet of Artists

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

…adjudicator of international poetry competitions and a judge of Art by Offenders for the Koestler Trust. For more details about the different artists and their projects relating to Strandlines, see…

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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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Poetry & Conversation with Maureen Duffy

By Strandlines Editors / 20 November 2020 /

…kindly ask that you mute yourselves during the event unless asking a question during the Q&A portion. Questions can be submitted via katieecwebb[at]googlemail[dot]com before the event and via the chat…

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