Museum moves - Design Museum and Commonwealth Museum on move?
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Southwark may be losing one museum and gaining another. The Design Museum is said to be considering a move to the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington. The Bristol-based British Empire & Commonwealth Museum , is on the short list for the Potters Field site near the Tower of London. .. read more..

Boris's Cultural Strategy for London
Monday, December 15, 2008

Here is a link to Boris's Cultural Strategy cultural-metropolis.pdf (application/pdf Object) .. read more..

Film of the Old Operating Theatre
Saturday, December 13, 2008

As part of the medical london book there is a film of the operating theatre museum on the Wellcome web site: Medical London: city of diseases, city of cures: video extras for the walk Life and Death by Water: A walk along the Medieval Thames .. read more..

Renaissance Faces - National Gallery
Sunday, December 7, 2008

I was really looking forward to this exhibition as it is one of the subjects I talk about on my National Gallery tours for Elderhostel , but I was very disappointed. The exhibition has virtually no narrative, very little explanation and mostly it seems to bring in paintings you can see upstairs for .. .. read more..

News and Event - gangland soho lecture
Thursday, November 27, 2008

News. I successfully completed my strange guided tour of the On Purpose exhibition. This was a commission by avante guarde designers Abake who asked me to do a guided tour of the Arnolfini On Purpose exhibition in Bristol. The twist was they wanted the tour to do done inLondon at the 'Wouldn'.. .. read more..

Public Health
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

I began writing an article on the Museum's Public Health Walks and update wikipedia in the process. Epidemiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .. read more..

Garden Museum refurbished and renamed.
Monday, November 24, 2008

The Museum of Garden History has reopened with a new gallery providing more space, with new displays, new name and new £6 entrance fee. Garden Museum opens with newly pruned displays [17 November 2008] .. read more..

London Fire Brigade Museum gets temporary reprieve
Monday, November 24, 2008

A temporary reprieve was given to the London Fire Brigade museum. It seems that the crass remarks made by Brian Coleman have united people in support of the Museum. His latest sally was to describe the Museum as shabby and not engaging with young people with interactivity. Southwark’s "shabby" Lon.. .. read more..

Invention at the Old Operating Theatre Museum
Saturday, November 22, 2008

We had 90 5 - 6 year old children to the Museum today to do a session based on invention. In the Museum they did medical invention and on a walk we looked at public health and other inventions based on Victorian London. One walk worked really well, but the second was made more difficult by need to f.. .. read more..

Roman London School walk
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Following the success of my Archeology and the Origins of London walk for London Walks, I have revamped the walk I designed for schools based on Roman London. A pdf is available here: .. read more..

'Londinium and Beyond' - Revealing Roman London – Birkbeck, University of Lond..
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Following discussion with Nick Bateman I purchased a copy of the feschrift for Harvey Sheldon which contains an article on London's population. 'Londinium and Beyond' - Revealing Roman London – Birkbeck, University of London .. read more..

The Origins and Archaeology of London
Monday, November 17, 2008

Yesterday I gave an archaeology walk around London concentrating on the Origins of London. A lot to get into one walk and also I still had the myths and legends in my mind so a bit of that seeped in too. In the end only got to Guildhall and did not get to the intended end point which was St Aphage. .. .. read more..

Black Death book published by Museum of London
Monday, November 10, 2008

The excavation of the East Smithfield cemetary has been published by the Museum of London. It reveals that burial was organised and not rushed although the finding of coins in pockets suggests the family and grave diggers were too afraid to go through the clothes of victims. Analysis of the burials .. .. read more..