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The Suffragette and Fascist Mary Richardson and the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery. 25 Jul 2013 | 09:42 pm
Mary Richardson at the National Gallery after her arrest in March 1914. ”Everything that Valasquez does may be regarded as absolutely right.” – John Ruskin In June 1934 at an anti-fascist gatherin....
Warren Street and the Murder of Stan ‘The Spiv’ Setty by Brian Donald Hume in 1949 18 Apr 2013 | 10:24 pm
On March 8 2013 Camden Council permanently closed Warren Street to cars. The road had long been used, presumably for decades, as a rat-run for drivers hoping to avoid the congestion that would often b...
Pauline Boty, the Anti-Uglies and Bowater House in Knightsbridge 20 Feb 2013 | 04:01 pm
At 2.00pm on Monday, 8 July 1968, and nine days before the world premiere, three of the Beatles arrived at a press-screening of Yellow Submarine. It was at the 102-seat cinema situated inside Bowater ...
The Honky Tonk Woman – Winifred Atwell and the Railton Road in Brixton. 4 Oct 2012 | 11:53 pm
At around eight o’clock on the Saturday evening of 14 April 1981 a Molotov cocktail was thrown through a window of The George Hotel on the corner of Effra Parade and Railton Road in Brixton. It was t...
Wimbledon, ‘Bare-leg’ Tennis, and the Bitter Rivalry Between Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs. 30 Jun 2012 | 01:51 am
Helen Wills - one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. Charlie Chaplin once wrote that the most beautiful sight he had ever seen, and presumably he had seen a few, was ‘the movement of ...
The GLC and how they Nearly Destroyed Covent Garden 3 May 2012 | 07:06 am
Covent Garden around 1970. Four years before its move to Nine Elms in Vauxhall The London premiere for the film of My Fair Lady took place at the Warner cinema in Leicester Square on 21 January 1965....
The Cenotaph, Alfred Rosenberg, Ada Emma Deane and the Ghost Hunter Harry Price 12 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
The Madame Tussaud's wax work of Hitler being taken to Marylebone Magistrates' court as evidence used towards the conviction of three men and a woman. 1933. At Madame Tussauds on the Marylebo...
Mary Quant, the Miniskirt and the Chelsea Palace on the King’s Road 22 Feb 2012 | 02:28 am
Mary Quant, 1963 These days the King’s Road looks not unlike many other high-streets across the country, albeit a bit posher. If you stroll down the road you’ll see, just like anywhere else, Boots, M...
Benny Hill and the Windmill Theatre in Great Windmill Street, Soho 1 Feb 2012 | 11:46 am
Benny Hill in his sixties heyday. “The notion that Benny was a lonely man is so depressing and wrong. He just liked his own company. He was very happy walking alone, living alone, eating alone, takin...
The Day the Traitors Burgess and Maclean Left Town 9 Jan 2012 | 07:07 am
Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess Guy Burgess woke at around 9.30 on the morning of Friday, 25 May 1951 in his untidy musty-smelling bedroom. Next to his bed was an overflowing as...
