by Editor | Oct 22, 2017 | TV
In the Kit Harington drama, special torture were reserved for those who harboured Catholics. But is there historical fact behind those bloody scenes? In BBC’s gory new drama Gunpowder, Sir William Wade, the Machiavellian Macgyver of Catholic hunters, surveyed an...
by Editor | Sep 19, 2017 | East London
Montague John Druitt lived a blessed life. The son of a surgeon he came from an upper middle class background and studied at Oxford. From 1880, aged 23, as he looked to establish himself as a barrister, he worked as an assistant schoolmaster at George Valentine’s...
by Editor | Sep 8, 2017 | News
On September 28 in 1865, east London pioneer and political Elizabeth Garrett Anderson activist qualified to become Britain’s first practising woman doctor. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, one of 12 children born to a Whitechapel couple, went on to defy convention as...
by Editor | Aug 15, 2017 | News
The team preparing the ground for a new visitor centre for the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College have uncovered remains of Greenwich Palace, birthplace of Henry VIII and his daughters Mary and Elizabeth I – a “remarkable find” according to experts. Two rooms...
by Editor | Jul 15, 2017 | Docklands
A new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, brings the shocking story right up to date – but there are still more questions than answers There are more questions than answers about the mysterious death of the 129 who went to search for the...
