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What the Dickens! A visit to the Doughty Street museum.

l’m wandering around London with Charles Dickens rattling around inside my head at the moment. I listened to the audiobook of David Copperfield, which I started out of…

Lincoln’s Inn

One of the most interesting facts – and there are many – about Lincoln’s Inn is that the Elizabethan playwright and actor Ben Jonson, a contemporary and rival…

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…