Canals of London 1

The first of four (you lucky people) videos in which Geoff Marshall from Londonist explores London's canals.

The Lib Dems won't flourish in 2020 by blaming the voters for 2015

View image | gettyimages.com Liberal Democrat Voice recently posted a couple of cheering links. A letter in the Independent had said: Afte...

Happy Birthday Richard Jefferies

On their way home they paused a moment under the great oak at the top of the Home Field, and looked back. The whole south burned with star...

Mystery behind buyer of tennis champ Virginia Wade’s undies as they fetch £1,600 in Ludlow

Our Headline of the Day comes from the ever-reliable Shropshire Star .

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Peru 1 nuevo sol 2015 - Huarautambo archaeological site

New circulating type: " Huarautambo archaeological site " This is the 22nd coin of the series "Wealth and Pride of Peru"...

Holding On To Beauty

They walk among the towering fifty foot tall ponderosa pines and tamarack trees grazing on grasses and bushes.  You can see them as darkness...

Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1940s and 1950s

Glorious footage with plenty of buses, trams and trolleybuses. The city lost its trams in 1950 and its trolleybuses in 1966.

Guy Fawkes was no freedom fighter

In view of this evening's events in London it is worth pointing you to an article by John Elledge in the New Statesman. He writes about...