“Had we but world enough, and time…” Meet Andrew Marvell: poet, politician, satirist, Londoner, and the man behind the sexiest poem in the English language. Then follow his footsteps through the London streets he knew.
Read MoreHitler wanted him arrested. Mussolini banned him. And in a little Hampstead studio, David Low took on the dictators armed with nothing more than a pencil.
Read More“Less British Museum and more life”
Read MoreStrangers in London: for a few seconds their paths cross on a Tube escalator, then they disappear into the city.
Read MoreThe dead got into him. Old London got into him.
Read MoreThe woman who put the dirt of Dachau on Hitler’s bathmat.
Read MoreThe people in those vessels are not called bodies. They’re called patients.
Read MoreThe most wonderfully landlocked ship in London.
Read More…they’re old leather boots. Heavy, battered, workaday things. Except they’ve been silver-plated.
Read MoreEach of those 39 stab wounds a candle blown out.
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