A walking tour through the remaining traces of Roman London. This walk is a companion to the earlier tour of Londinium’s Roman walls. Roman sites are few and far between today, but nonetheless anchor us to history and the city’s origins. We Begin Our Walk – Cleary Gardens and the London Mithraeum A Walking Tour […]
A visit to the Imperial War Museum/IWM between lockdowns, including a work by Ai Weiwei and exhibitions on refugees. In which the temporary exhibitions really made me think but the Ai Weiwei was a tad over-hyped What Can You See at the IWM, Aside From Ai Weiwei? I’m pretty sure the last time I was […]
This is an exhibition with a very good starting point: a successful and creative businessman, buffeted by the vagaries of 20th Century history, whose story illustrates a much wider narrative. Plus that of a granddaughter (Anne Sinclair), public figure, painted by major artists as a child, and now author of a successful history of her […]
