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Video: Thanks to Sir Cloudesley
Early 18th Century admiral and shipwreck victim with a pub named after him in Charing Cross and a special place in British navigation history.
Read More +Video: Surprise! It’s Hyde Park Corner
Hyde Park Corner is to modern Londoners a giant roundabout to be avoided at all costs, but take the time to actually look around and it's packed with fascinating history.
Read More +Video: Meet Sam the scribbler
Samuel Pepys was a naval administrator in 17th century London, who just happened to start writing a diary during possibly the most interesting decade in English history.
Read More +Strawberry Hill gets its stuff back
The treasures collected by Horace Walpole in the eighteenth century return to his gothic conceit of a home, Strawberry Hill House, for just six months.
Read More +On the tiles with de Morgan
Artist and mathematician William de Morgan spent his life perfecting the techniques of Islamic ceramic art
Read More +Silence please! British Museum
At last, a chance to see inside the famous Reading Room at the heart of the British Museum. And a polite plea for its future.
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