Category Archives: Historical London
Patrick Keiller’s London. Then & Now.
Patrick Keiller made his strange, uncategorisable film, London, in 1992. It’s not a documentary although it uses documentary style footage and it’s certainly not traditional fiction. Perhaps Peter Ackroyd’s towering London: The Biography sits closest to it with an impressionistic mix of … Continue reading
Under the weather: fog’s particular contribution to London art (and soup) in the late nineteenth century.
London exploded in size in the nineteenth century. In 1801 it had just over 1 million inhabitants. By 1901 the population had reached 6.5 million with the rate of growth accelerating as the century ran its course (a full 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Historical London
Tagged arthur conan doyle, battersea, battersea bridge, bleak house, charing cross bridge, charles dickens, claude monet, clean air act 1956, coal, delia smith, dr jekyll, fog, housesof parliament, industry, jack the ripper, james mcneill whistler, london, london particular, mr hyde, new yok times, nineteenth century, nocturnes, peasouper, population, robert louis stevenson, sherlock holmes, soup, tate britain
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A brief guide to retail London*
* in the Seventeenth Century. I enjoy reading Lucy Inglis’s website Georgian London which as you can imagine is a geographical and time specific blog. She has a fascinating perspective on our wonderful city and she writes very nicely too. Lucy brings an … Continue reading
Posted in Favourite Blogs, Historical London, Retail
Tagged blog, Georgian London, hod carriers, lucy inglis, milkmaids, ocado, shopping, welsh london
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