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Some, and only some, walking tour companies don't follow good practice. Crackdown spells the end of 'free' walking tours where the guides force you to tip London Walks by contrast are brilliant.

This is the document a spy recorded about Elizabethan Playwright (and spy) Christopher Marlowe a few days before he was murdered with a knife through the eye in a Tavern in Deptford. It provides a motive. Spy report that criticised Marlowe for 'gay Christ' claim is revealed online | Stage | The Guardian

To my mind, with Lardy Cake (and Worcestershire Dripping Cake) the king of pastries. If I were a Little Englander I would blame the Belgian Bun and the Danish Pastry for their disappearance from mainstream bakers and Cafes.  Occasionally, they have them at the British Library Cafe and Cafe Oto.  Fragrant as honey and sweeter in taste! As flaky and white as if baked by the light, As the flesh of an infant soft, doughy and slight. Swift London Food History: Chelsea Buns | Londonist

John Flude listed as an archer with the Earl of Salisbury fought in France in 1417. The battle took place in 1415 but I'm hoping the date might be when the record was made not when he served. Have a look for your own Medieval Soldier

The Healing Stones of Dyfed - YouTube

Salon IFA had an interesting report on the export of British Heritage. 'In 1974 Harris, Roy Strong FSA and Marcus Binney FSA co-curated the Destruction of the Country House exhibition at the V&A, which encouraged the founding of SAVE Britain's Heritage, of which Binney is currently Executive President and Harris a Trustee. Now, according to the Observer , Strong and Harris are hoping Britain’s ‘lost heritage’ can be tracked down. From the 1880s to the 1940s entire historic interiors were shipped across the Atlantic, to be bought by the likes of William Randolph Hearst, John D Rockefeller, JP Morgan and Henry Frick. The owners of Gwydir Castle, Conwy, have been searching for 16th-century decorative carved oak panelling, stripped from the castle and sold to Hearst in 1921, without success. Strong told the Observer : ‘There were ship-loads of early English portraits exported, not just grand things. There’s English sculpture – how much of that went to America? We don’t...

Interesting ideas. Roadkill and lawnmower exhibitions: The weird ways museums are finding funding - BBC News : London's Museum of Curiosities.

Ministry of Stories Parliament’s Education Service has teamed  up with the Ministry of Stories, based in Hoxton, to help promote the art of writing  and delivering speeches. As part of its Young People Speak Up  scheme, aimed at promoting confidence in public speaking, students from the Bridge Academy were asked to turn their passions into speeches, which they presented in Parliament. Meg Hillier MP said ' I was proud to hear the fantastic speeches delivered by the students'.

STAND UP FOR STONEHENGE WITH TONY ROBINSON! - YouTube