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Shops on the Strand: women in business in early modern Westminster, 1600-1740

By Sarah Birt / 26 October 2020 /

…area when compared to more established high streets like Cheapside in the City of London? What trades in particular proliferated there? So far, I’ve identified numerous seamstresses, milliners and tyrewomen…

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From the Electrophone to the Xbox Kinect: Remediating the Gaiety Girls

By Rob Gallagher / 5 October 2017 /

…be such a surprise to hear that where Terriss found the mask of comedy a better fit, Collier preferred melodrama and tragedy. She quickly abandoned musical comedy (‘I was too…

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London History Day

By Clare Brant / 26 January 2018 / Comments Off on London History Day

…walk down the Strand A walk down the Strand focusing on places on the Strand which were significant from women’s suffrage history. With Elizabeth Crawford [womanandhersphere.com] Please meet just off…

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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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Anglo/Flemish School; George Villiers (1592-1628), 1st Duke of Buckingham

By Francesca Allfrey / 30 November 2020 /

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Strandlines by Nora Geist

By Strandlines Editors / 12 February 2021 /

…and more photographs, may be found on my website: www.norageist.art.”   “Secondary strandline” (2020), c. Nora Geist.   “Mirror on the door of the glass closet” (2018), c. Nora Geist…

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Niemann, Edmund John, 1813-1876; Buckingham Street, Strand, London

By Paul G. / 18 September 2020 /

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London History Day – The India Club’s Resilience

By Tristan Tetteroo / 31 May 2021 /

…the Covid-19 pandemic and threats of eviction, the India Club stands strong and will continue to do so in the coming years.     For further information please visit: https://www.theindiaclub.co.uk…

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The Strand’s Arisings

By Clare Brant / 26 August 2021 /

…London graduate show had inserted itself engagingly into some commercial premises, and a little busyness of reinvention, as a few workmen tended to frontages with hammers and drills. New life?…

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