‘Noisome stinking scum’: how Londoners protested river pollution in the 1600s: London imagined from above by artist Claes Jansz. Visscher, in 1616. wiki The UK government and water companies have recently been heavily criticised for allowing raw sewage and other pollutants to spill into the nation’s waterways. While a recent flurry of stories and reports …
A cool Paternoster image: Image from page 150 of “Notable Londoners, an illustrated who’s who of professional and business men” (1922) Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: notablelondoners00lond Title: Notable Londoners, an illustrated who’s who of professional and business men Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: London : London Publishing Agency Contributing Library: University …
The end of furlough: Londoners and workers over 50 will be hardest hit – new research: Hardship will be more pronounced in the capital. Tom Parsons/Unsplash, CC BY-SA After 19 months of paying to help UK workers to stay in their jobs during the pandemic, the government furlough scheme finishes at the end of September. The …
Is Keir Starmer any good? Don’t ask Londoners: Keir Starmer recently celebrated his first year as leader of the Labour party. His critics believe the party is failing to advance very far under Starmer’s influence. Writing in the New Statesman, the political philosopher John Gray claimed that the Labour leader epitomises the contemporary party’s fundamental …
Sadiq Khan is on course for big win – so what do Londoners want from their mayor in a second term?: Polling shows Sadiq Khan is set to secure a second term as London mayor on May 6. He is easily beating his Conservative rival, Shaun Bailey, who looks likely to suffer the worst defeat …
Why Londoners in the blitz accepted face masks to prevent infection – unlike today’s objectors: People going to work during the blitz. Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia Commons As COVID-19 spread in Britain, journalists and politicians took to comparing the pandemic to the blitz. From the “blitz spirit” to the death toll, the German bombing campaign in …