Category: Famous Londoners
Famous Londoners: Tallulah Bankhead
Alex Mustapha explores the life of silver screen star Tallulah Bankhead during her stay in London in the mid to late Twenties. For her spectacular offstage antics alone, Tallulah Bankhead happens to be my most revered of golden-era starlets. She is the archetypal Thirties actress, representing an era when the seeds of legends were sewn [...]
Things to do around London: tracing Sherlock Holmes
The famous sleuth might only be a fictional character yet London without Sherlock seems unimaginable. Rebecca McWattie explores all things Sherlock in the capital. Since Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 he quickly became one of the most well loved fictional characters in English literature. Arthur Conan Doyle [...]
Famous Londoners: Chaplin
With the Academy Awards being screened live to over 200 countries this weekend, what better way to get into the spirit of the movies than by celebrating London’s greatest export to Hollywood – Charlie Chaplin? Rebecca McWattie reports. Charles Spencer Chaplin was born into poverty in Lambeth in 1889. His mother and father, who were [...]
Famous London events: The Queen’s wedding
This April London will again be in the throes of royal wedding fever. Rebecca McWattie revisits the magic of the Queen’s wedding in post-war 1947 and predicts that even in the 21st century the country will be united watching the glory and spectacle of William and Kate’s union.
Eat, drink and be merry – have a Churchill inspired Christmas
Rebecca McWattie takes a look at Winston Churchill’s love for the finer pleasures in life, and suggests we let our Christmas be inspired by his ability to feast and be merry. I think it would be fair to say Winston Churchill did not need Christmas as an excuse to eat, drink and be merry. His [...]
Famous Londoners: Diana Mitford – From Eaton Square to Holloway Prison
Rebecca McWattie continues her series on Diana Mitford, the third of the notorious Mitford Sisters, and details her fall from grace and imprisonment in London’s Holloway jail.
