Historic Sites

Dr Johnson’s House, London

A rare surviving Restoration-era house in the City of London, Dr Johnson’s House tells the story of a man whose influence on the English language continues to the present day. Samuel Johnson, an Introduction Today’s post is about Dr Johnson’s House, a small museum in the City of London. But who, first of all, is […]

Museum Tours

Kirkaldy’s Testing Works, London

Just a stone’s throw from Tate Modern, Kirkaldy’s Testing Works speaks to Southwark’s industrial past and the ingenuity and single-mindedness of one man, David Kirkaldy. Another ‘New Museum’ in London One thing I love about London is how much of it I still have to see. I’ve lived here about 15 years now. And yet […]

Theatre

Heisenberg – Arcola Theatre, London

The meeting of two women in a London train station has all the energy and mystery of quantum physics in this queer reworking of Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg. Heisenberg Formulated by the German physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the uncertainty principle states that we cannot know both the position and speed of a […]

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