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A forgotten cockpit from Shakespeare’s time

London’s Lost Cockpit londonmylondon.co.uk/the-forgotten-…

Lovely painting from Jane Hammond’s show at the Garden Museum next to Lambeth Palace

My new book can be bought direct from the publisher Ingram Spark as well as Amazon tinyurl.com/mvsk8469

A few tickets still available ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/how-m…

Millennium wheel among the banana trees

In the 2nd of our £10 Noon talks this Saturday I will tell the astonishing tale of how a medieval brewery by Westminster Abbey paved the way for one of the biggest drinks companies in the world. Search “Thorney Island” in Eventbrite

Tickets still available . . . Check Thorney Island on Eventbrite

In the first of our £10 talks on Saturdays, Victor Keegan, author of Lost London 1, 2 and 3 will tell the extraordinary story of how Thorney Island started the world's first public subscription hospital and the creation of two major hospitals. tinyurl.com/43fuea6p

Thousands more daffodils have been planted this year in St James’s and The Green Park in a riot of colour

Some of Melissa Scot-Miller’s lovely pictures at the Garden Museum in Lambeth next to Lambeth Palace

I asked Google Deep Mind to do some marketing for my new book and they came up with this cover. I prefer the original but this is impressive, especially if it prompts new sales tinyurl.com/mvsk8469

A vital read for anyone interested in the future of truth and journalism by Alan Rusbridger, who knows app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72423/co…

My new book, London’s Lost Island (the densest concentration of history anywhere), can now be purchased directly from the printer thereby avoiding the likes of Amazon etc. Happy rreading shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=N…

London contributed £44 billion in taxation for the benefit of the rest of the country, according to official figures. Worth bearing in mind by those who knock London.

Plans for a pyramid in London four times higher than St Paul’s were dropped. Curious.

Capuccino and muffin for £4.50, an introductory offer at the lovely new Church House café in Great Smith Street (opposite the Cinnamon Club)

A clock in London

Memorial in Archbishop’s Park in Lambeth to Harthacnut, the Viking King of England from 1040 until 1042 until he died in Lambeth while drinking too much .Let this be a warning to us all.