LONDON.- Pirates: The Captain Kidd Story, a new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, opens 20 May 2011. Focusing on the legendary privateer turned pirate, Captain Kidd, the exhibition reveals the surprising truth of how London’s corrupt p…
LONDON.- Pirates: The Captain Kidd Story, a new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, opens 20 May 2011. Focusing on the legendary privateer turned pirate, Captain Kidd, the exhibition reveals the surprising truth of how London’s corrupt p…
LONDON.- A display of 11 hand-drawn maps of London goes on show at the Museum of London from the 21 April 2011. The exhibition looks at mapping London, not as a factual or geographical tool but based on the individual experiences, perceptions and imagi…
LONDON.- A display of 11 hand-drawn maps of London goes on show at the Museum of London from the 21 April 2011. The exhibition looks at mapping London, not as a factual or geographical tool but based on the individual experiences, perceptions and imagi…
LONDON.- A display of significant paintings, prints and drawings are on display at the Museum of London from the 25 March 2011. The images, by artists including Gustave Doré, Théodore Géricault, Thomas Rowlandson and Paul Sandby, consider how the ur…
LONDON.- A display of significant paintings, prints and drawings are on display at the Museum of London from the 25 March 2011. The images, by artists including Gustave Doré, Théodore Géricault, Thomas Rowlandson and Paul Sandby, consider how the ur…
By: Stefano Ambrogi
LONDON (REUTERS).- Smoking was as bad for the Victorians as it is for anyone today, but back in those days it seems it did far more damage to their teeth. In the mid-19th century, prior to the invention of the cigarette, when tobacc…
LONDON.- Three Minis used by Paramount Pictures to promote the 1969 film The Italian Job have taken up temporary residence in the Museum of London’s City Gallery, downstairs in the new Galleries of Modern London. The Minis will remain here until…
LONDON (REUTERS).- The skeleton of a huge whale, thought to have been butchered for its meat, bone and oils 300 years ago, has been discovered by archaeologists on the banks of London’s River Thames. The remains of the headless beast, the now rare Nort…
LONDON (REUTERS).- The skeleton of a huge whale, thought to have been butchered for its meat, bone and oils 300 years ago, has been discovered by archaeologists on the banks of London’s River Thames. The remains of the headless beast, the now rare Nort…
