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Full piece here: londonist.substack.com/p/extreme-acts…

Why King's Cross Station Looks Like Something From The Ice Age - Wonderful piece of psycho-geography by the ever fascinating Matt Brown @mattfromlondon

SALON No116: London Labyrinths: Thursday 26th. Link in comments Join London obsessives Pete Smith + @mattfromlondon as they tell how the medieval street plan, ancient rights of way + archaic parish boundaries still ghost the alleys, courts + lanes of the old city @horsehospital

Here tis: eventbrite.co.uk/e/salon-no116-…

@StevenPBrindle Hi Steven, Will you come to talk at our Salon one day? salonforthecity.blogspot.com

My new book, London, Lost Interiors, will be published in October. Over 600 historic photographs of London houses, c. 1880-1950, 90% previously unpublished, showing an extraordinary range of styles. Warm thanks to my wonderful publishers, Atlantic Publications.

@RachelA1892 You mean, apart from the fact that it has been a total disaster right? :)

Does this graphic help to explain why Priti Patel was the first candidate to be out of the leadership race, reportedly by tactical voting amongst MPs? A clear favourite with members, and the only candidate to consistently support Brexit. Shame on them, they've learnt nothing.

💀Friends and Fellow Mortals The Countdown has started! Less than a month to go 👻What are you YOU looking forward to most? Nearly all events are sold / selling out (It’s not that the ones that haven’t aren’t as good, just they are in bigger venues :) #londonmonthofthedead

More fascinating Dope Girls stuff: actress Billie Carleton and dancer Freda Kempton - both deceased from cocaine related deaths. Both became sanctified in death and were used to stir up a moral panic Also here: Reggie De Vielle and 'Brilliant' Chang, the alleged suppliers

Dope Girls Gender, Race, Drugs! Link to listen in comments @marekkohn came to #bureauoflostculture to tell how fears of womens' emancipation and an imagined threat of foreigners fuelled a moral panic in the 1920s, shaping the drug laws of the UK today @GrantaBooks @sohoradio

To follow on from the Dope Girls post below, the original Chinatown was not in the West End but in Limehouse in the Eastern docklands - a dubious and run down area which allowed the myths and fictions around opium dens and the 'yellow peril' of Chinese villains to flourish.

☠️A Day in the Life of Death: John Harris, scion of T Cribb tells the story of London's oldest undertakers. They are specialists in exhumation + repatriation, bury royals, host an extraordinary funerary collection, have their own horses + grow their own hay! Link in comments

Pedways: The Dream of a Two-Tier City - another cracking essay on the crazy dream and reality of London's aerial walkways from @mattfromlondon - link in comments

💀 📖 Books of the Dead @GaryLachman our foremost writer on the esoteric returns to tell of the guide books on how we should prepare for death and what happens after - from ancient Egypt and medieval Tibet, up to modern times londonmonthofthedead.com/booksofthedead…

Can't wait for this

@misssamperrin @RogerBowdler wow

@marcbel19406167 @Monthofthedead hahaha

@Monthofthedead How much to add a tree swing?

💀 Who fancies this? If enough Londoners wanted it, we could petition Sadiq Khan to turn Hyde Park into a forest of the dead! 💀 🌲🌳🌴 #londonmonthofthedead

@GaryLachman @Monthofthedead Speak for yourself Gary!

@Monthofthedead Why not? So many of us are vegetables while living.

Here 'tis eventbrite.co.uk/e/salon-no115-…

This Thursday: The Hidden Histories of The Tower. Secret stories and forgotten lives have been discovered, deep in manuscripts and literally written on the walls of The Tower of London. Link in comments to join us for lost histories of jews and Medieval Graffiti @horsehospital