Think of Speakers’ Corner and what comes to mind? The spot where Karl Marx stood in 1855 to protest against the Sunday Trading Bill, hoping it would herald the English Revolution? Where the Pankhursts once proclaimed the cause of votes for women? Where Pan-Africanists Marcus Garvey and, later, Walter Rodney, spoke regularly during their time studying […]
The post Elin Morgan: On Spouter’s Corner appeared first on OnLondon. OnLondon – News…
As a young teenager I had loads of time with nothing to do. Outside of school, the paper round, homework and housework, I spent a lot of time…staring. My imagination was never more captivated than when inside a good stare, usually with headphones on, listening to music. I stared most at the posters on my […]
The post Julie Hamill: Escher at Somerset House – marvellous, if overfull appeared first on OnLondon. OnLondon – News…
A discreet exit route from Liverpool Street station, reached via an upper level corridor, takes you to Sun Street Passage and then, after a fashion, to Sun Street itself, along which Bill Sikes frogmarched Oliver Twist en route to doing some housebreaking in Chertsey. Charles Dickens also had Sikes hustling the child across Finsbury Square […]
The post John Vane: On Chiswell Street, Sun Street and Silk Street appeared first on OnLondon. OnLondon – News…
Have you ever been to the hidden restaurant at Selfridges? Alto by San Carlo is only accessible via a particular lift on the ground floor. You rise to the top and arrive at the restaurant reception via a corridor of multicoloured, shiny baubles. My friends Sharon and Sue and I treated ourselves to an end […]
The post Julie Hamill: Sparkling steps into a London Christmas appeared first on OnLondon. OnLondon – News…