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…in nearly the same spot two hundred and fifty years ago admired with wonder the new invention of the balloon. Plus ça change…? More information on the car at http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/car.cfm…
Read more…couldn’t be conventional if she tried”. Volume 1. No. 4, March 1962 cover of The New Strand, via Google Images <http://www.philsp.com/mags/strand.html> Jabavu herself recognised how her selection as editor held…
Read more…it differently. That’s why, the lone, repeated sound of a workman on a building site crying ‘coaaal… ‘ opposite my window today was so alien – so ‘out of place’….
Read more…July 2012, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18903391 On Salisbury House, see Survey of London: Volume 18, St Martin-in-The-Fields II: the Strand. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1937; 120-123; online at https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol18/pt2/ pp120-123…
Read more…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…
Read more…(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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