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Postcard from Iraq: photographs and film by Mouayad Sary

By Strandlines Editors / 16 June 2020 / Comments Off on Postcard from Iraq: photographs and film by Mouayad Sary

…provided by the photographer. Features LONGER ARTICLES, PERSONAL ESSAYS, AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Coming soon… Features on Strandlines are longer articles, personal essays, and collections of material which focus on particular…

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A Wind of Tingling Fullness on the Strand

By Freya Zhang / 5 August 2019 /

…it needs the vigor of youth, and I suppose that is something that you could read out of the combination here, that what we’ve got is that ideal combination of…

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A Quixotic Ramble along the Strand

By Charles Lock / 29 April 2019 /

…4, note 7. [17] R.W. Truman, ‘Bowle, John’, ODNB. [18] Truman, ‘The Rev. John Bowle’s Quixotic Woes’, p. 24 [19] Truman, ‘Bowle’, ODNB [20] Desmond O’Connor, ‘Baretti, Giuseppe Marc’Antonio’, ODNB…

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Indigenous actors at the heart of empire: A letter from the Strand to Buffalo Creek

By Théophraste Fady / 5 August 2021 /

…Door.” Between the fall of 1861 and the spring of 1863, he electrified audience throughout Britain and Ireland. […] It was his London performances, though, that would draw the most…

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The Eagle Hut, Aldwych

By Clare Brant / 3 March 2017 /

The Eagle Hut, Aldwych, with St Mary-le-Strand, King’s College and Somerset House in the distance (watercolour by Henry Rushbury, Imperial War Museum © IWM (Art.IWM ART 1123); Rushbury was an…

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The Eagle Hut and King’s College London

By Stephen Miller / 3 March 2017 /

…church, which is visible immediately behind. Two horse-drawn carts full of American soldiers are on the road in front of the huts, as well as a truck and various civilians….

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Monet’s Pied-Ă -terre

By Théophraste Fady / 9 September 2019 /

…Savoy’s claims, as “rooms 512 and 513 [are marketed] as the ‘Monet Suite’”. The Telegraph was quick to point out that this was an expensive error, as the suite cost…

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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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Community engagement methodologies workshop

By Strandlines Editors / 7 January 2011 /

…give him free drinks and meals. …………….. Contributed by Connie Golstejn. What is the object? Pocket knife Where does it come from? Sittard – the Netherlands What connection does the…

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The Adelphi and Robert Adam

By Paul G. / 1 October 2020 /

…Arches under the Adelphi terrace before their destruction, 1920s   Sources and further reading [1] Samuel Pepys, Diary, Entry for 26 Apr 1669 (accessible at https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1669/04/26/) [2] Mark McDayter, The…

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