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Why King's Cross Station Looks Like Something From The Ice Age - Wonderful piece of psycho-geography by the ever fascinating Matt Brown @mattfromlondon
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SALON No116: London Labyrinths: Thursday 26th. Link in comments Join London obsessives Pete Smith + @mattfromlondon as they tell how the medieval street plan, ancient rights of way + archaic parish boundaries still ghost the alleys, courts + lanes of the old city @horsehospital
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SALON No116: London Labyrinths: Thursday 26th. Link in comments Join London obsessives Pete Smith + @mattfromlondon as they tell how the medieval street plan, ancient rights of way + archaic parish boundaries still ghost the alleys, courts + lanes of the old city @horsehospital
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Here tis: eventbrite.co.uk/e/salon-no1…

SALON NO.116: London Labyrinths

Ghosts of the medieval street plan, ancient rights of way and underground rivers under the city streets

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💀Friends and Fellow Mortals The Countdown has started! Less than a month to go 👻What are you YOU looking forward to most? Nearly all events are sold / selling out (It’s not that the ones that haven’t aren’t as good, just they are in bigger venues :) #londonmonthofthedead
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More fascinating Dope Girls stuff: actress Billie Carleton and dancer Freda Kempton - both deceased from cocaine related deaths. Both became sanctified in death and were used to stir up a moral panic Also here: Reggie De Vielle and 'Brilliant' Chang, the alleged suppliers
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Dope Girls Gender, Race, Drugs! Link to listen in comments @marekkohn came to #bureauoflostculture to tell how fears of womens' emancipation and an imagined threat of foreigners fuelled a moral panic in the 1920s, shaping the drug laws of the UK today @GrantaBooks @sohoradio
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To follow on from the Dope Girls post below, the original Chinatown was not in the West End but in Limehouse in the Eastern docklands - a dubious and run down area which allowed the myths and fictions around opium dens and the 'yellow peril' of Chinese villains to flourish.
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☠️A Day in the Life of Death: John Harris, scion of T Cribb tells the story of London's oldest undertakers. They are specialists in exhumation + repatriation, bury royals, host an extraordinary funerary collection, have their own horses + grow their own hay! Link in comments
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Pedways: The Dream of a Two-Tier City - another cracking essay on the crazy dream and reality of London's aerial walkways from @mattfromlondon - link in comments
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💀 📖 Books of the Dead @GaryLachman our foremost writer on the esoteric returns to tell of the guide books on how we should prepare for death and what happens after - from ancient Egypt and medieval Tibet, up to modern times londonmonthofthedead.com/boo…
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London Month of the Dead@Monthofthedead12 Aug 2024
💀😿 Fellow Mortals! Pet Cemeteries and Animal Burials Exciting news We have added another event with Dr Paul Koudanaris (author of the classics Empire of Death, Heavenly Bodies and Memento Mori) Paul will talk + launch his new book “Faithful Unto Death’ londonmonthofthedead.com/fai…
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This Thursday: The Hidden Histories of The Tower. Secret stories and forgotten lives have been discovered, deep in manuscripts and literally written on the walls of The Tower of London. Link in comments to join us for lost histories of jews and Medieval Graffiti @horsehospital
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SALON NO.115: The Hidden Histories of The Tower

Secret stories and forgotten lives have been discovered, deep in texts and literally written on the walls of The Tower of London

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The Lost Cinemas of London Cinemaphiles and London-ologists: The brilliant BBC broadcaster Alan Dein and film historian Nigel Smith are coming to @horsehospital this month for a double feature on the amazing lost picture palaces of the celluloid city. Link in comments
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SALON NO.113: The Lost Cinemas of London

Take your seats for a double bill featuring the missing movie houses of the metropolis - east and west.

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☠️Fellow Mortals! Climb aboard THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE and ride into gothic darkness - Wednesday at the wonderful @CinemaMuseum as our friend (and genius) Stephen Horne @stephenstumm performs a live score to Victor Sjöström's silent 1921 horror masterpiece. Link in comments ☠️
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Fungus fans! DM us to be our guest to celebrate Beltane - next Wednesday May 1st at The Century Club - with mycology photographer @MaxMudie, mushroom musician @Auntie_Flo and incredible artist @JanaNicole_art with @suzettefield @realtuesdayweld #beltane #mushroom #fungus
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