This is a continuation of my last blog post – I have new information! I was in the Bishopsgate Institute Library last week (that amazing resource full of Labour Movement
As The London Spy I haven’t actually blogged about Spies and Spying very much, so here are two stories in one, both in the same street – Moorgate. I have
It’s New Year’s eve and I’m at home ill -what better way to cheer myself up than writing my 50th blog post? S0 – here we go! When I was
You may have noticed a theme of truth in my recent posts. Here is another example of my hunt for Justice – literally in this case! Tony Parsons, the former
The service that never was. I love to find something unusual or a different angle on places on my tours. Take St Paul’s Cathedral. I often guide outside
I am so pleased that Hallie Rubenhold’s book “The Five” has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford (formerly the Samuel Johnson) prize for non-fiction last week. Written from a Social History
First as Tragedy, second as Farce This is Stuart Potts, who has been imprisoned today for 16 weeks for disrupting Sunday’s Remembrance Day silence by setting off fireworks. After
Ever since I was set his selected poems for English Literature A Level, I have been obsessed with TS Eliot. He of course spent many years in the City of
The City doesn’t quite have the sheer volume of literary connections that – say – Westminster does, but what it lacks in volume it makes up for in charm and
Today I had a chat with the very friendly receptionists about the amazing lift in their property called Blackwell House, managed by Inigo property and just on the edge of
