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Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection At V&A – United Kingdom KNews.MEDIA
For more from London’s art world, sign up for our new (free) newsletter and community: Londonist: Urban Palette. Over 300 photo prints from the private collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish go on display at the V&A this summer.
This Breathtakingly Blue Lake Is Less Than An Hour From London – United Kingdom KNews.MEDIA
Spring has finally read the room and decided to (somewhat) grace the capital with its presence, and across the city, Londoners are slowly but surely emerging from their winter hibernation. Now, if you’re anything like me, even the slightest glimpse of sunshine will have you stuffing clothes into a (questionably sized) hand luggage bag and Googling ‘cheap flights anywhere’.
10 Things You Learn From Living In The Tower Of London – United Kingdom KNews.MEDIA
For five years, comedian Tom Houghton lived with his dad, who happened to be an inhabitant of one of the world’s best-known buildings, the Tower of London. Here, Tom tells us 10 things you can only fully appreciate once you’ve lived in a moated fortress with an enviable postcode. KEYS: Yes, the Tower has a famous locking up ceremony, but I never actually needed keys to get in and out of myself.
Londonist's Best Articles From Mid To Late March 2024 – United Kingdom KNews.MEDIA
Your weekly Londonist roundup, featuring Londony news and features. Aslef members say they’re ‘working harder and longer for less’. The best events in London this month. The beauty of the capital’s social housing. Adam Dant is at it again. Italian Terraces will also be restored and replanted with wildflowers. Clifftop fortresses to grand country piles. Disruption double whammy. When London was behoved to de-hoof. End of Ramadan marked in style. What as tall as six Nelson’s Columns?
Policing Brixton: An Insider's Account Original
A former volunteer police officer describes his experiences on the streets of Brixton. Matt Lloyd-Rose was a primary school teacher in South London. When he left the classroom, he became a volunteer police officer in the same area. Into the Night is his account of his nightshifts with the Met Police. It's a cracking read, deeply rooted in the Brixton-Clapham-Stockwell area.
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February
Dolphin Junction by Mick Herron; Wifedom by Anna Funder; Labours of Love by Madeleine Bunting.Photograph: Granta; John Murray; Penguin Matt Lloyd-Rose, author Having worked as a carer, primary school teacher and volunteer police officer, I’m always on the lookout for literary non-fiction that explores big social questions: searing, lyrical books like Citizen by Claudia Rankine or Evicted by Matthew Desmond.
Deliberate disorder and mixing it up
Matt Lloyd-Rose’s timely and penetrating account of a year spent as a special constable Into the Night is as eye-opening as it is fascinating. Patrolling the streets of an area of South London, Matt spends his Friday nights with the Met Police witnessing the best and the worst of law enforcement and of society. He raises very interesting questions about the role of the police. Are they crime busters, mental health workers, social workers or all three and more?
Into the Night by Matt Lloyd-Rose
Matt Lloyd-Rose Synopsis 'Acutely observed and tenderly written' - Polly Morland, bestselling author of A Fortunate Women 'Told with the verve and immediacy of a novel' - Iain Sinclair A former carer, primary school teacher and education researcher, Matt Lloyd-Rose became a volunteer police officer to try to understand the challenges facing young people in Brixton, the place he lived and taught. He got more than he bargained for.
Curiocity, An Alternative A-Z of London by Henry Eliot
'The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, individual, innovative, insightful, inspiring, instructive, intelligible, intoxicating, intricate guide to the great city that I have ever seen. Bravo!' Philip Pullman Curiocity is a London book unlike any other. Its 26 chapters weave together facts, myths, stories, riddles, essays, diagrams, illustrations and itineraries to explore every aspect of life in the capital.
Helping students to make mistakes and grow
Turning mistakes into learning opportunities with students and encouraging a growth mindset are useful teaching strategies. Matt Lloyd-Rose advises “If you don’t have confidence and you don’t have resilience, how on earth are you meant to take the risk to put pen to paper?
The (Almost) A-Z Of Christmas Shopping In London
Henry Eliot & Matt Lloyd-Rose The (Almost) A-Z Of Christmas Shopping In London Stanfords in Covent Garden At Christmas time, London goes shopping mad. The streets are illuminated with twinkling lights, glowing shop fronts and scrolling advertisements. Shelves are heaving with shiny gift sets and plastic stocking-fillers. The poet Shelley was dazzled by London’s ‘goldsmiths, print-shops, toy-shops, mercers, hardware men [and] pastry cooks’. ‘ These are thy gods, O London!’ he cried.
Curiocity: Perhaps The Best Book About London Ever Compiled
Curiocity: Perhaps The Best Book About London Ever Compiled In well over a decade of publishing Londonist, we've read and reviewed hundreds of books about the capital. We say that not to show off, but to add some credibility to what we say next. Curiocity is the greatest book about London published in modern times. 'Book' is too weak a word for this tome. It is a sprawling publication — a codex of the capital, an illuminated manuscript for the 21st century city.
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