Having filled our boots at the Parliamentary Archives last week, yesterday a group of London Historians joined a behind-the-scenes tour of The National Archives (TNA) in Kew. The Friends of the National Archives runs these tours for their members a few times every year. A substantial walking tour taking well over two hours through the [...]
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More Archive Treats: Kew
Posted in London Historians, tagged Friends of Kew National Archives, history, Kew National Archives, london, london historians on 2 May, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Parliamentary Archives with London Historians
Posted in Events, Government, London Historians, Victorian period, tagged history, london, Parliamentary Archives, Victoria Tower, Westminster Palace on 26 April, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A guest post by London Historians member, Peter Twist. Were Her Majesty the Queen to look upwards when she arrives at the magnificent Sovereign’s gate of the Palace of Westminster for the formal opening of the Houses of Parliament, she would meet the eyes of a lone soldier perched high above her. His duty is [...]
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Posted in Local History, London Historians, Medieval London, Religion, tagged Church bell, history, london, manufacturing, Whitechapel, Whitechapel Bell Foundry on 11 March, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London E1 is Britain’s oldest existing business. Above the door it says 1570, but recent research indicates it may have been operating in the 1420s, and perhaps even earlier. The foundry’s business, quite obviously, is making bells. Church bells and hand bells mainly, but whatever your bell requirements, this is the [...]
Stat Karma – the big 5,000
Posted in London Historians, tagged Facebook, Twitter on 15 January, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Although I confess to being a little obsessed about traffic stats on our various sites, it strikes me as being vulgar to talk about it publicly. However, at the risk of and all that, it was rather nice today to pass the 5,000 follower milestone on Twitter on the very same day that we had [...]
London Historians Review of 2011
Posted in London Historians, tagged Architecture, heritage, history, london, london historians, Museums, projects on 19 December, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As our first full calendar year in existence draws to a close, here are some of the highlights enjoyed by our Members, other friends, but in particular, by me. Writing up this blog is certainly one of them, and I’d like to thank all of you who have read and commented. It was only when [...]
Art and the City
Posted in Architecture, Art, London Historians, tagged city of london guides, colin davey, guided tours, Guildhall Art Gallery, london, london historians, St Vedast Foster Lane on 18 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I thought I’d just share some pictures with you from our final event of the year, Art and the City, which happened yesterday. The format was a guided walk around City of London with the excellent Colin Davey, a City of London Guide; a very welcome hot lunch at the Barbican; a tour of the [...]
History in the Pub II: Report
Posted in Events, London Historians, tagged history, history in the pub, london, londonist, matt brown, Nigel Jones, Ruairidh Anderson, songs from the howling sea, tim hitchcock on 30 November, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Once again, a full house at The Bell in Spitalfields were subjected to – I think it’s safe to say – a superb evening’s historical entertainment. Nigel Jones, author of a new book on the Tower of London, kicked off proceedings with some highly amusing anecdotes about escapees over the centuries from what most people [...]
History in the Pub II
Posted in London Events, London Historians, tagged history, history in the pub, london, london historians, Spitalfields on 23 November, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Following the great success of our inaugural, experimental History in the Pub on 21 September, we have decided to squeeze one in before the year draws to a close, and then put together a fabulous programme for 2012. History in the Pub II is next Tuesday, 29 November, again upstairs at The Bell in Middlesex [...]
Convivial: History in the Pub.
Posted in London Events, London Historians, tagged history, history in the pub, Jerry White, london, london historians, lucy inglis, matt brown, Ruairidh Anderson on 22 September, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last night’s event. I think I shall just try and let the pictures do the talking, but they will be mumbling, not sure what’s gone wrong with my camera. Also, no pictures of Lucy or me, neither of us particularly camera-shy, I think, just a case of me running around a lot sorting stuff out. [...]
History in the Pub
Posted in London Events, London Historians, Uncategorized, tagged history in the pub, Jerry White, london historians, london history, lucy inglis, matt brown, Ruairidh Anderson on 7 September, 2011 | 6 Comments »
History in the Pub is a new event that we are hosting on Wednesday 21st September after work at The Bell in Spitalfields. The idea is that it is a bit like comedy club insofar as instead of comedians, we have historians. Stand-up history, if you like. This is actually the brainchild of London Historians [...]
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