I put together this “entanglogram” of London history, which links together famous people, places, events, lost rivers, Tube lines and cats. It’s a little bit demented but I hope you like it. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

The Marquis Cornwallis pub in Bloomsbury is a pleasant if unremarkable pub… until you go to the toilets and notice the battle scene hanging on the north wall

We asked people to come up with alternative names for the London boroughs, with prizes for the best. Here are the results… and Mike’s made pretend logos for the new boroughs….

🎺🥁 ANNOUNCING the winners of our recent Rename a Borough competition! 🏆 Each will receive a signed map of Greater London AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social All of us enjoyed reading through the submissions, and here are our ten favourites: 🧵

Blimey, my book was second only to the Booker Prize winner in Daunt bookshops last month, according to The Times. Sold out on Amazon, too! You can still track copies down in most high street bookshops though… they make excellent Christmas presents 😉

A reminder that this time next week @mattfromlondon.bsky.social and I will be at Enfield Waterstones signing copies of our book The Boroughs of London! ✍🏻📚 If you're in north London that evening, do stop by! ⏰ 6pm, Wed 26 Nov 📍 26 Church St, Enfield EN2 6BE www.waterstones.com/events/the-b...

Want to win our new book, The Boroughs of London? It’s the only competition ever (probably) where you have to pretend to be a 1960s London councillor…

So, so chuffed that The Boroughs of London is currently filling the window of @dauntbookspub.bsky.social in Marylebone. It’s a real honour. If you can’t get to the shop you can order from them here dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/t...

The Boroughs of London by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social is now in the shops (out Oct 21st in North America)! 📚 Here’s a thread on what it’s about, what’s inside, and why - if you love all things London, local history, boundaries, facts, trivia and above all MAPS - you’re in for a treat. 🧵⬇️

I’ve been and done a book, with @thisismikehall.com It’s out now! A cartographic celebration of the 32 London boroughs (plus the Square Mile), with around 350 ideas of places to visit. It’s turned out handsomly (even if I haven’t) open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

🚨 London lovers! Come see me and Londonist supremo @mattfromlondon.bsky.social talk about our new book THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON at Stanfords next month! 📍 Stanfords (@stanfordstravel.bsky.social) 7 Mercer Walk, WC2H 9FA 🗓️ 7pm, Thu 9th October 🎟️ £8.00 (inc 🍷) ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-boroug...

🚨 One month to go till THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social hits the shops! Packed with maps and illustrations, learn about London's 32 boroughs, how they came to be, the fascinating places in each, and much more history and trivia besides. Preorder today! ℹ️ bit.ly/BorosLdn

At the lovely Mercia Marina — supposedly the largest inland marina in Europe — in Derbyshire. Besides the obvious, it has shops, restaurants, a Norse goddess, free bikes, and a Cheese Boat that also sells novelty socks. Idyllic.

Think I’ll pass, cheers. But thanks for the offer

Seems appropriate… #LondonBridge

The Apple Store, Dorset style

A reminder that the nice people at Waterstones are offering a 25% discount on preorder copies of me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social’s new book The Boroughs of London (UK shipping only). Offer ends midnight tomorrow! ➡️ www.waterstones.com/book/the-bor...

A sequel too far?

An explicit version of Beethoven’s Fifth? What? I thought it was the Third that was dubbed the Erotica Symphony

I’m pretty sure the Royal Courts of Justice in London inspired Castle Grayskull

The perils of naming your shop after a living person (these in Southgate and Waltham Forest)

I created a scan of the whole length of the Covid Memorial Wall opposite Westminster Palace! #London #photogrammetry 3D: skfb.ly/pyuoS

Kids got me this lovely Star Wars pint glass for fathers’ day. And now they’ve gone to bed, can anyone explain what the round blueberry thing is… because I got it in my head that it’s Darth Vader’s sphincter, but I can’t say that out loud.

Spotted in Elstree. Awful and bizarre in equal measure.

“Ronald Reagan? The escapologist?”. The President’s statue in Grosvenor Square, London is not quite how I remember it.

Loved this whole series of Doctor Who. Triumphant, imaginative, jubilant television. The look of wonderment on my 9yo daughter’s face at the end was priceless. Hope they sort out the behind-the-scenes stuff and come back soon. #doctorwho

What alchemy is this?

Just been served my first £8 pint. In a Sam Smiths pub! It’s not even very nice.

Some interesting photo captioning in the Independent

Reading with my six year old. His answer to this was “Using the Safari browser?”

I adore those AI results that Google insists on placing above traditional search results. Today I learned that Her Majesty was able to ride the London cable car a quarter of a century before it was built. Royal privilege, I guess

Been a while since the Anchor Bankside pub was visible from this angle

Got a new book out soon, with the supremely talented mapmaker @thisismikehall.com

Today, my local supermarket had no bananas, yet was well stocked with figures of Otto, a very minor character from the Simpsons. If this is a symptom of the trade war, then I’m all for it.

I’m pretty sure that’s not Grimsby…

This might just be the best documentary about London I’ve ever seen londonist.com/london/video...

Finally, a Daily Mail headline I can get behind

A map of one’s own… in this week’s Londonist Time Machine, I’ve mapped every single London location mentioned in every single Virginia Woolf novel. Surprisingly little Bloomsbury open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

About right…

Damnit, Woburn’s capybara are glitching again.

Edwardian London had a real problem with slips on banana peel. Dozens of people were hospitalised, and several were killed open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

Well here’s a twist I never saw coming. Turns out that my heating bill is going to be paid for by He-Man. The new Masters of the Universe movie is going to be filming in my block of flats… and the producers have offered to pay a significant sum towards our service charge. How’s your day going?

The bits of London that have moved around over the years open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

I want to go through this door in Balham tube station so much

Today on Time Machine… the forgotten square in Bloomsbury with the big history (and hidden artwork) open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

I love Thameslink. I love the way they turn every journey into a game show. Is it the Cambridge train? The Bedford fast service? Or have you won a cottage holiday in the Cotswolds

Superb list of short, historical films about London from @alondoninheritance.bsky.social . A few of these were new to me. Thank you! alondoninheritance.com/london-photo...

Mapped… every single location mentioned in the Wolf Hall novels open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

I see Kentish Town station is set to reopen soon after a year and a half’s closure to rebuild the escalators. I hope they get the steps in the right order this time! (This is a genuine, unedited photo I took before the closure.)

There’s going to be a giant bottle of ketchup on the set of Christmas Strictly Come Dancing… according to a sauce close to the studios