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The River Thames is London’s largest public space, so why aren’t we using it? Swimmable Cities co-founder Chris Romer-Lee ...
Home to a world famous school, and what I believe is the poshest Budgens around, Eton is a beautiful neighbourhood that runs ...
Swan Upping, King Charles' five-day event that takes over the River Thames, is a nearly thousand-year old British tradition.
The annual five-day census of swans belonging to King Charles III has begun along the River Thames. The centuries-old ...
Twice a day, every day, the tides of the River Thames rise and fall, revealing a foreshore that, in the middle of London, has been a focus of human activity for millennia. Making use of the ...
When finished later this year, it will be named Bazalgette Embankment, in honor of the 19th-century engineer Joseph Bazalgette, who designed London’s first sewer system.
They are based on the historical boundaries of Oxfordshire before 1974 - when places to the south of the River Thames, such as Abingdon, were in Berkshire.
This summer, Caroline Ranald Curvan, Ossining ’s Town Historian, will take a research trip to the South Pacific to learn more about Ossining artist Alfred Agate and his life as an illustrator on the ...
In 18th- and 19th-century London, the term mudlark was coined to describe someone who scavenged river banks for valuable items. Today, metal detectors aid in the continuing pastime—which now requires ...
Archaeology & History Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames Doves Type was thrown into the water a century ago, following a dispute between its creators.
An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan.