The Victoria Tower

The beautiful Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster has always been overshadowed by its famous sibling for lack of a large clock. It is not an attention-seeker in that way. And doesn’t need to be. The tower was one of the last parts of the new Palace to be completed, in 1860, twenty six [...]

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Painting and Decorating

I must share with you an article by Patrick Baty, who is an “architectural paint researcher” and runs a business in Chelsea which does much consultancy work in buildings conservation projects.  Dr Johnson’s House is a good example.  Reading his blog you can clearly see that what Patrick does is very much a bona fide branch of archaeology. This [...]

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Old Maps

Who doesn’t love an old map? I know I do. I’d just like to share with you something I came across over the weekend: Cassini Maps, a web site where you can select an old map on any scale from various eras and purchase them online (as a file or as a print) at really reasonable prices, [...]

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“Transcribe Bentham” is Launched

After much beta testing and what-not, last week saw the launch of a crowdsourcing project by UCL to transcribe all the papers of Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832), a “Londoner of Note”. If you’d like to participate in this worthy venture, go here.

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