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Archives for May 2018

LATE TO YEATS

28th May 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

            I have always loved poetry and often use it on tours – less so, these days, as I am more self-conscious about appearing over-intellectual.  That was not something which worried W B Yeats, the greatest of Ireland’s poets, who chronicled the move of Ireland to independence in the late nineteenth and […]

Filed Under: Writers Tagged With: BRENNANS, SLIGO, W B YEATS

WHO CRACKED THE CODE?

28th May 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                      The Rosetta Stone is really a very boring object and yet it is arguably the most important one in the British Museum. It is a piece of granite forty five inches tall proclaiming an edict by King Ptolemy the Fifth in 196 BC and discovered […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: Champollion, Rosetta Stone, Thomas Young

THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW

17th May 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

I actually paid to go on a tour the other day, which is almost unknown in the high season.  Still, I was intrigued by the premise and coughed up my £20 to go on an alternative tour of the National Portrait Gallery.                           […]

Filed Under: London, Uncategorised Tagged With: ALice Procter, anti-university, National Portrait Gallery

SUFFRAGETTE AND SUFFRAGIST

17th May 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                                                          Our Prime Minister Theresa May took a break last week from the problems of Brexit (unavoidable) and the Windrush scandal (self-inflicted) to be present at the […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: Emmeline Pankhurst statue, Millicent Fawcett statue, Suffragettes

LONDON’S LONGEST RUNNING SHOWS

17th May 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

Blue badge guides often have to take groups to the theatre and, even if they do not do this regularly, it is a good idea to know what is running in the west end in order to advise people.  With this in mind, I thought it would be fun to see which were the longest […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: LES MISERABLES, LONDON THEATRE, MOUSETRAP

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