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Enjoying Leon Litvack's timely keynote at Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey 'had lost its charm' in the Victorian period, and burying there would raise its profile as well as that of Dean Stanley.

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2020-06-09

For those of you wanting a protest that's actually organized, hit Westminster on Saturday (but be prepared for speeches 😀). Meanwhile, Orange is asking everyone to the Block tomorrow.

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2020-06-04

Sometimes one must have a care for the cartoonists. Poor 's cartoon in this morning's now seems significantly more sensible than the procedures actually adopted at Westminster today.

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2020-06-03

When Westminster and SE centric news dominates us it is so important to have quality reportage from regional TV - eg Inside Out I’m sad to see that we might loose the programme how can we pitch in to support this flagship programme giving us a voice?

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2020-05-29

These buffoons in Westminster are asking you to take part in their ‘Track and trace’ they tell you it’s your civic duty🤔 Rules they flout. They have shown zero goodwill. is still there and we all did our civic duty. They risk our lives...

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2020-05-28

Maybe there are people who still have trust in Westminster’s government. They should be few and far between.

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2020-05-24


Maybe Jessamy learned riding the Pedestrian Curricle at Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School in the Strand, Westminster.
Denis Johnson purchased a draisienne and patented an improved model in 1818.

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2020-05-24

Trust in the Westminster government was already very low but now...

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2020-05-24

New cartoon on SNP and Scottish Tories screwing tenants over at Hollyrood and BoJo screwing Scotland over at Westminster - for

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2020-05-22

Westminster government It is clear that they do not have a clue. They seem to be sending us back into the coved house fire while it is still burning after throwing a bucket of water near the garden. None of the 5 key tests have not been met. None!

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2020-05-16

Thomas Rowlandson's caricature, Death and the Antiquaries, 1816. A group of antiquaries cluster eagerly around the exhumed corpse of a king. The image was inspired by the opening of the tomb of Edward I in Westminster Abbey by the Society of Antiquaries in 1774.

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2020-05-05

3 May 1641: Protesting outside Hall, John Lilburne, future Leveller tells an acquaintance that if justice is not done to the Earl of 'they would pull the King out of Whitehall' (BM) And they did, in the end...

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2020-05-03

2 more paintings from the 208th RI exhibition online. ‘Big Ben Clock’ and ‘Westminster Abbey’, both by . ‘Big Ben Clock’ is sold but you can still buy ‘Westminster Abbey’ or any of the other paintings in the show using the link here:
https://t.co/8Ilv7V1RmK

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2020-04-15

in 1759, Baroque composer George Frederic Handel died at his home in Brook Street, London, at age 74. Westminster Abbey https://t.co/5xYPmisb6o

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2020-04-14


Londres, Westminster Abbey, 11 avril 1689:
Leur «Glorieuse Révolution» accomplie, les Parlementaires anglais ont invité le gendre et la fille du roi déchu, Jacques II, à régner conjointement à sa place.
Tous deux sont couronnés Guillaume III et Mary II.

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2020-04-11

Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727 (Gregorian calendar). At his death he was Master of the Royal Mint and President of the . From Woolsthorpe to Westminster Abbey; he became one of England's greatest scientists and changed the way we see the world.

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2020-03-31

Today 25 March 1677: Death of maybe THE greatest etcher/draughtsman Václav Hollar at Gardener’s Lane, Westminster.
It was Hollar who left us a glorious record of the Greenwich vista and Queen’s House c.1637... being paid the princely sum of 150p !

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2020-03-25