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By David Blackwell A popular form of aristocratic entertainment in mid-18th-century London was to stroll round the city’s ornamental pleasure gardens, both those at Vauxhall (launched in 1732 with a masked gala) and its more fashionable rival, Ranelagh Gardens (opened in 1742 and now the site of the annual Chelsea Flower Show).
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Centuries ago, London cafes were politically provocative, intellectually charged dens frequented by eminent scholars and louche libertines. London historian Dr Matthew Green recounts some unexpected tales.
My favourite journey through London’s historic streets isn’t from a tourist bus but from the front seat on top of the ordinary number 23 from Liverpool Street station to Marble Arch. I…
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William Hogarth - A Rake's Progress. #narrates by tellng a story through a series of images. Hogarth uses visual #communication to open people's eyes to this kind of situation (A man inherits a fortune, attempts to live an aristocrat's life, wastes his furtune, marries for money, gambles away his fortune, becomes incarcerated, then goes mad.) This is the artist #makingsenseoftheworld and presenting this to viewers of his work through contextual #meaning.
In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London
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Beautiful tudor house in Oxford
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A lifelong passion for all things 18th-century led barrister Phillip Lucas to spend ten years restoring Spitalfields House, a 1725 townhouse once home to Huguenot weavers that now houses his impressive antique collection
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