Londonist16 天
Time Travel Back To 17th Century London - With This Royalist Reenactment Along The Mall
30 January marks a grim date in the annals of London history ... For the past half century, The King's Army, a royalist branch of the English Civil War Society, has commemorated what they call ...
来自MSN1 个月
My House: They Said Farewell to London and Moved Into a 17th-Century Water Mill
Artists Miriam Nabarro and Simon Quinn call on Cooke Fawcett Architects to sensitively adapt a historic Hampshire site into a home with a standalone workshop and art studio. For artists Miriam ...
What the Great Fire of London can teach us about the Los Angeles fires
The Great Fire of London broke out on September 2, 1666, in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane. At the time, much of the city remained planned in a medieval style, still within the old Roman ...
ICTSD1 年
how did a person become rich in the 1600 and 1700s?
Trade and cities expanded at the same time as the growth of Protestantism brought wealth and independence to some. What was life like in 17th century London? Despite being a big city in the 1660s, ...
来自MSN1 个月
The 17th century £21,000,000 diamond at the centre of a royal family court battle
The 17th-century, 70 carat gemstone ... the pendant to a necklace containing 86 other diamonds. It is now in the London home of the late Qatari culture minister Sheikh Saoud bin Mohammed Ali ...
Olive Press4 个月
PICTURED: 17th century Spanish galleon enters British waters as floating museum makes ...
Today it made a spectacular entrance under London’s iconic Tower Bridge ... Nao Victoria The meticulously crafted replica of a 17th-century Spanish galleon has been sharing the maritime heritage ...