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It’s 1392 and you are a young Galaunt. These were young men, usually of between sixteen and twenty five years old. They were portrayed as...

“Khalil took the sound as a request, and soon his mouth was on hers, hot and vibrant, firm and needing. Strong, despite that terrible...

This short story fits loosely in with the idiom theme that I’ve been perusing recently. The term is used to mean a disappointment or...

In the last post, Hide and Seek in Moorgate, I relayed the story of the run up to the English Civil War and how five members of...

Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an...

It’s a chilly mid morning in November 1883 and you have just sat down at the table to enjoy a morning coffee in your flat at number ten...

The Dominion Theatre stands on Tottenham Court Road. Construction of the theatre began in March 1928 with a design by W and TR Milburn...

Good manners prohibit me from finishing the title, but what I’m striving for is the full repertoire of inuendo and verbal abuse that some...

The phrase is often attributed to Queen Victoria and has passed into common usage to note perceived strait-laced stuffiness, bolstering...

Medieval medicine and it’s practitioners get a rather bad press, Quackery neatly wrapping the whole issue into an understandable term....

Today’s Clerkenwell is popular with creative firms and dotted with smart apartment blocks in converted warehouses. It has many good...

So, you have the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, then there’s the one in Oxford and another in Cambridge. I counted another twelve in Europe...

Last week I posted about my failure to check out some details with regards to an audio tour I was in the process of publishing and how it...

I’d like to share a short story of an incident that happened in 1322. Foster Lane near to St Paul’s Cathedral was at the time known as St...

Old Jewry is a street that runs north to south connecting the Guildhall to Cheapside. In the 1600s an Inn used to stand at the north end...

Hopefully, one telephone number that you won’t dial too often will be 999, unless KFC have run out of chicken, as some idiot did during...

Six Word Saturday #6WS #Death #History #London

In my last post I gave a mention to the church of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside. This is the church that appears in the nursery rhyme,...

As you may have read in my last few posts I’ve been looking at all things subterranean, the London Underground, the sewers and lost...

Question: What is the smallest piece of public art within the City of London? To answer that question let me take you back to the 1860s...