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Local stories and social life in London
33 posts
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Communities
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Community Blogs
Local stories and social life in London
33 posts
Greenwich: The Place That Decided What Time It Is Everywhere Else
In 1884, delegates from 25 nations agreed that time itself would be measured from a line running through Green...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Brixton: How the Windrush Generation Built a Market's Second Life
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Hackney: A Saxon Retreat That Royals Once Escaped to
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Islington: The Village That Became London's Small-Theatre Capital
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Camden: From an Earl's Speculation to London's Most Rebellious Market
Camden Market started in 1974 with just sixteen stalls, built to fill land a cancelled motorway had already cleared. It's been refusing to sit still ever since.
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Southwark: London's Oldest Crossing and Its Wildest Theatre
Southwark held London's very first bridge across the Thames, and centuries later it held Shakespeare's Globe....
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
The City of London: Two Thousand Years in One Square Mile
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Westminster: Where a King Built a Palace and a Nation Followed
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
St Stephen: A Parish Founded to Welcome Pilgrims
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
St Michael: The Church Built on a Roman Courtroom
St Michael's stands on the exact site of the Roman basilica where, tradition holds, Alban himself was tried an...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Sandridge: A Church Consecrated Nine Centuries Ago
Sandridge's church has stood, in one form or another, since Saxon monks first needed somewhere to pray after S...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026
Bricket Wood: Ancient Woodland with a Secret Coven
Bricket Wood has 212 acres of genuinely ancient woodland at its centre, and, almost unbelievably, a footnote in global religious history: this is where modern Wicca quietly took sh...
The Social Martini16 Sept 2026