Canada House #history #londonhistory #canadianhistory

https://youtube.com/shorts/1LkqrJmbODw?si=L5oyq1pqoVVW9e4e

Gorgeous little exhibition sharing people's stories about their first council flat, by Somers Town People's Museum. It's painted on the walls of a community garden round the back of the British Library.

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#OnThisDay, 6 June 1915, Maida Vale Tube station opens in London. Much was made of it being staffed by women on day one. It remained that way until the end of World War 1.

Why Does Monopoly Start Arguments?: The London History Show
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TkQi9SN_NVc
#JDraperLondon #LondonHistory
#Monopoly #TheLandlordsGame
#StolenIP #BoardGames #EducationalGames #AntiCapitolists #Georgists #GreatDepression

The cat's meat men of London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0qbz4DdHVA
#cats #catshistory #catsmeat #london #londonhistory

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-built-by-women/

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions.

[photo via https://redflagwalks.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/pawky-comments-in-downing-street-the-march-of-the-women-on-11th-march-1928/ ]

Why is Euston to Kings Cross, London a data black hole?

#TechnologyQuestion
#londonHistory

This is a very cool thing near Southall, London. Three Bridges is a three-level crossing of bridges: a combined rail, canal and road bridge. The project was Brunel's last to be finished before he died on 15 September 1859. #london #londonhistory #engineering

The Greenwich foot tunnel under the river Thames. This is the reinforced section that was damaged at 5.30pm on 7th September 1940 by a high explosive bomb. #london #londonhistory #photography #urban

"You and I are Earth," 1661. The plate, discovered in a London sewer, is made of tin-glazed earthenware. It is now part of the Museum of London's collection.⁣
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#tinware #museumoflondon #17thcentury #delftware #youandiareearth #londonhistory #greatplague #greatfireoflondon #sewerfind #historicalceramics

#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage in a civilian disaster, the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. The British press dub her "the angel of platform 6".

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Mind the gap!

#OnThisDay, 6 June 1915, Maida Vale Tube station opens in London. It is staffed by women until the end of World War 1.

How the Museum of London is packing up its huge collection as it moves to its new home in Smithfield.

@BBCLondonNews

180dB ft. Meredith Graves & Nick Zinner ~ Road Trip

Un morceau dont je ne me lasserai jamais. Rage !

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=tL_gwV-Aj-k (trackers free)
or
https://youtu.be/tL_gwV-Aj-k

Infos on the track and the “band” :
https://www.stereogum.com/2015422/180db-savages-meredith-graves-nick-zinner-road-trip/video/