Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street
Cavernous 18th-century store reveals link to lost trade in ice blocks from Norwegian lakes Esther Addley Guardian, Fri 28 Dec 2018 The inside of a rediscovered ice house near Regent’s … Continue reading
How the decadence and depravity of London’s 18th century elite was fuelled by hot chocolate
White’s Coffee House formed part of William Hogarth’s series The Rake’s ProgressCREDIT: 2005 GETTY IMAGES/HULTON ARCHIVE Dr Matthew Green Telegraph 11 MARCH 2017 One midsummer’s day in 1750, a man … Continue reading
The surprising history of London’s fascinating (but forgotten) coffeehouses
By the dawn of the eighteenth century, contemporaries counted over 3,000 coffeehouses in London CREDIT: 2013 CULTURE CLUB/CULTURE CLUB Dr Matthew Green Telegraph 6 MARCH 2017 The Starbucks on Russell … Continue reading
When London was the smoking capital of the world
So complete was the immersion, you didn’t “smoke” tobacco, you “drank” it, and it made people “riotous and merry, and rather drowsy… performing queer antics”CREDIT: ALAMY Dr Matthew Green Telegraph … Continue reading
‘Filthy glamour’: could polluted Marylebone Road help fix London’s air?
Marylebone Road has the odd distinction of being the world’s most studied road in terms of air pollution – yet remains a chief culprit in London’s ‘shameful’ air quality. Now … Continue reading
Piccadilly Circus: still London’s heart of darkness
The famous illuminated advertisements have been switched off – but the junction will always be tinged with a neon-hued hint of sex and danger Piccadilly Circus in 2014. Photograph: Matt … Continue reading
Primal screen
More than just an exploitation flick, Primitive London is a portrait of a city trapped between postwar austerity and 1960s liberalism By voyeurs, for voyeurs … Primitive London Iain Sinclair … Continue reading
Story of cities #14: London’s Great Stink heralds a wonder of the industrial world
By the mid-1800s, the River Thames had been used as a dumping ground for human excrement for centuries. At last, fear of its ‘evil odour’ led to one of the … Continue reading
Psychogeographers’ landmark London Stone goes on show at last
Roman milestone, druidic altar, Excalibur’s resting place? Mysterious stone surrounded by stories is to be restored and rehoused London Stone at its current site in the wall of a former … Continue reading
Beyond the pall … how London fog seeped into fiction
Cloaked in symbolism, the choking smog of Dickens and Jack the Ripper conceals murder and corruption in everything from Sherlock Holmes to Star Trek Closely associated with fog … Sherlock, … Continue reading
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