Category Archives: england

King Richard III, last plantagenet king of England

Laurence Olivier as Richard III

I can tell them both why the current media hype of bones dug up in a Leicester car park being ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ the bones of King Richard III, last plantagenet king of England, is history, both meaningful and significant. Continue reading

What is the new sculpture on the Trafalgar plinth all about?

Powerless Structures, Fig 101

“People will, the artists concede, either love or hate the two-tonne bronze statue of a boy on his rocking horse but anyone in Trafalgar Square over the next 18 months will not really be able to ignore him.” Continue reading

Londres, elle est bouillante

In London, The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that “In a city of rumour and of fluctuating fortune, of excess in … Continue reading

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