Nige on the French artist whose largely inaccurate drawings fixed an idea of Victorian London in the popular consciousness... The dark, dramatic engravings of Gustave Doré have done a lot to fix our image of Victorian London, in all its murky squalor. But (as I learnt from an informative footnote in Bill Bryson's ... Read More...
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David Long’s new book A History of London in 100 Places tells the capital’s incredible history through 100 buildings, details and places, from Roman barges to Boris Bike stations. In the last of three exclusive extracts for The Dabbler, David visits the Great Mosque on Brick Lane... The United States of ... Read More...
David Long’s new book A History of London in 100 Places tells the capital’s incredible history through 100 buildings, details and places, from Roman barges to Boris Bike stations. In the second of three exclusive extracts for The Dabbler, David peers into a medieval plague pit... London’s mass graves and plague ... Read More...
David Long’s new book A History of London in 100 Places tells the capital’s incredible history through 100 buildings, details and places, from Roman barges to Boris Bike stations. In the first of three exclusive extracts for The Dabbler, David looks at William the Conqueror’s White Tower... This is still by ... Read More...
Journalist and author Peter Watts, proprietor of The Great Wen blog, gives us a run down of some of the latest book releases exploring our capital city I don’t think anybody, with the possible exception of Will Self, really knows what psychogeography means but that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot ... Read More...
Time for the second installment on the curiosities of our capital city from Peter Watts - journalist,self-confessed London geek, and author of Know London. Streets beneath streets, layer upon layer, we descend into history... Paul, the librarian at Time Out, first told me about the street beneath Charing Cross Road in ... Read More...
Peter Watts is a journalist who has worked in the national media since 1993, starting at The Sunday Times as a 17-year-old sportswriter. He has also been features writer at Time Out, where he edited the Big Smoke section. Peter now writes about architecture, politics, cinema, drugs, beer, history, music, museums, comedy, football, hippies, archeology, ... Read More...
If you haven't got round to checking out Rob Baker's Nickel in the Machine blog yet, you are missing out - it's a fascinating trip around the murkier side of the celebrities and demi monde that inhabited twentieth century London. In his day job Rob is a TV producer, but ... Read More...
The Dabbler is pleased to welcome superblogger Rob Baker on board for a series of guest posts taken from his excellent Nickel in the Machine. In his day job Rob is a TV producer, but is concentrating more and more on writing, having recently launched The London Project in an ... Read More...