New Year, New You!
Posted in: Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions4 Mindful Ways to Toast & Tipple the New Year — After New Year’s Eve […]
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Chritsmas in London
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Chritsmas in London
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Freelancing in London? Here’s What You Need to Know
Posted in: Features, PeopleFrom pop-up galleries in Peckham to podcast studios in Hackney, freelancing in London offers endless creative opportunities, and just as many challenges. Whether you’re a graphic designer working from a café in Camden or a self-taught filmmaker balancing shoots and edits, life as a freelancer in the capital is full of movement, freedom, and unpredictability. […]
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Sankofa Chronicles
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & ExhibitionsToyosi Saliu Makes a Solid Gold Statement With Breathtaking 24-Carat Art From the heart of the African continent but firmly rooted in London, rises an exciting new artist whose work bridges African identity and ancestral royalty with modern elegance. Nigerian artist Toyosi Saliu uses real 24-carat gold to craft dazzling portraits that bring a […]
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What’s Hot Hackney?
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The Jameel Prize: Moving Images
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & ExhibitionsThe Jameel Prize: Moving Images – exhibition at the V&A . Beyond the V&A’s ornate and magnificently high-ceilinged walls lie an extraordinary wealth of historical and cultural displays. Indeed, you’d best plan your day around just one exhibition, or you’ll be there all week! And why not plan that visit around the Jameel Prize: Moving […]
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Madame Tussauds Waxing Lyrical About the Missing Royals
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, HighlightsSome reports say the Harry and Meghan waxworks have been completely removed from Madame Tussauds now they have stepped down from Royal duties, others say they have just been moved a few feet away. There are even rumours they are in another room. So which is it? A Madame Tussaud’s spokesperson has confirmed they are […]
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Did You Know The V&A Has The World’s First Museum Restaurant?
Posted in: Features, Food & Dining, Galleries & MuseumsWith over 2.27 million objects, the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington is recognised as a world leader in the collection of applied and decorative art and design, but did you know it also has the world’s first museum restaurant? Its three opulently decorated Victorian Refreshment Rooms were built in the 1850s and 60s, timed […]
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Votes for Women – Museum of London (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, ReviewsThe Museum of London already has a permanent display dedicated to the Suffragette movement. The centenary commemoration of the 1918 Representation of the People Act has seen this extended with two more display areas. On this same L2 level floor, you’ll also find the Shades of Suffragette Militancy and Votes for Women displays documenting the […]
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Keats House Museum, Hampstead
Posted in: Features, PlacesEnglish Romantic poet John Keats lived a short life that was in many ways the archetypal tragic and poverty-stricken existence we expect of such literary figures. What still exists is his body of work and, of course, Keats House, his home in Hampstead. Formerly Wentworth Place, this Regency villa has been a museum since 1925 […]
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Feb 13: English Suffragettes Storm Parliament in 1907
Posted in: Features, Galleries & MuseumsWhen a 2014 planning proposal for a museum about East End women’s history turned into a ‘concealed’ bid to build a Jack the Ripper museum in Tower Hamlets, local campaigners fought long and hard for some actual recognition of East London’s historic suffragette movement. This resulted in efforts to build The East End Women’s Museum […]
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Guided Medieval & Renaissance Tours at the V&A Museum
Posted in: Shows & ExhibitionsDescribed by the guide as the oldest and largest museum in the world, (the prior fact debatable the latter fact certainly possible) this tour kicks off every day 11.30am sharp at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s grand entrance. Even the most learned historian would struggle here as a visitor so you soon realise this free […]
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