Viewpoints – Placecloud

London, United Kingdom. William Romaine’s funeral drew a large but peaceful crowd. The spectacular procession to Blackfriars involved many spectators, charity recipients and marshals from the City of London.

London, United Kingdom. Discover Marx’s political activities and impoverished existence and suffering in London's Soho

London, United Kingdom. The story of how coffee of arrived in London, not from Italy or America, but from the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century. It tasted bitter, but also of Islam and the East. This is how England learnt to love the 'wine of Islam' and the 'Vertue[s] of the Coffee Drink'.

London, United Kingdom. A weird tunnel beneath Charing Cross station traces the edge of what was once London’s riverside embankment, a waterfront that witnessed the arrival of Viking raiding fleets.

London, United Kingdom. The church of St Alfege was built on the site of the martyrdom of St Ælfheah: the archbishop of Canterbury who, having been kidnapped by Vikings and taken to their camp at Greenwich, was battered to death with animal bones…

London, United Kingdom. St Paul’s was the heart of early London. It was the burial place of King Ethelred (‘the ill-advised’) and also of unfortunate Archbishop Ælfheah whose body was stolen from its tomb by King Cnut The graveyard was once home to the London runestone, a rare monument to a member of London’s Viking elite.

London, United Kingdom. London's walls may have been built by the Romans, but when the Vikings encountered them in the tenth and eleventh centuries 'they suffered', as the anonymous Anglo-Saxon chronicler put it, 'more harm and injury than they ever imagined that any town-dwellers would do to them’.

London, United Kingdom. Queenhithe is the only surviving section of the City of London’s ancient riverfront: excavations from here and neighbouring Bull Wharf have revealed evidence of London’s early medieval role in international trade – including the largest concentration of Viking artefacts in Britain outside York.

London, United Kingdom. Excavations beneath the Royal Opera House have revealed stunning evidence of early London, both the homes and workshops of the inhabitants and also the defensive ditches that may have been built to protect against Viking attacks before the area was abandoned.

London, United Kingdom. Although it was Edward the Confessor who is most associated with Westminster abbey, the first king of England to be buried there was Harold I ‘Harefoot’, the son of King Cnut. He didn't rest there for long...

London, United Kingdom. St Olaf House stands on the site of an ancient church dedicated to St Olaf. It once stood at the southern end of old London Bridge - a bridge that may have been torn down by a Viking fleet: a fleet commanded by the very same Olaf...

London, United Kingdom. The Church of St Olave on Hart Street is one of London's oldest medieval churches. Known to Dickens as 'Saint Ghastly Grim' and dedicated to a notorious Norwegian king, its likely origins lie in the Viking Age.

London, United Kingdom. Before Devonshire House was the headquarters of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain from 1794 until 1925, it was a large house called Fisher's Folly.

London, United Kingdom. The Gravel Pit Chapel was home to a radical religious congregation, now buried in a walled-off graveyard in Hackney.

Potters Bar, United Kingdom. Waltham Abbey was the first official Quaker school for boys, established by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1668.

London, United Kingdom. Shacklewell was the first official Quaker school for girls, established by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1668.

London, United Kingdom. Before there was St John-at-Hackney, there was St Augustine's Church, which was Hackney's parish church from 1275 to 1789.

London, United Kingdom. In the 17th century, the Salmon school was one of the biggest and most renowned girls' schools in the London area and the country. The school taught girls from middling and elite families for approximately 40 years.

London, United Kingdom. Palestine Place was the nineteenth-century headquarters of the London Jews Society, an Anglican missionary society that worked to demonstrate the value of Christianity to Jewish populations.

London, United Kingdom. Bunhill Fields was the burial ground for more than 123,000 nonconformists in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

London, United Kingdom. The Bull and Mouth was an important coaching inn in the 17th through 19th century. This viewpoint focuses on the inn's importance to the growth of 17th-century London Quakerism.

London, United Kingdom. In the 17th century, the Perwich school was one of the biggest and most renowned girls' schools in the London area and the country. The school taught girls from middling and elite families how to be accomplished and successful wives, mothers, and women in their own right.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint focusses on a toilet tower (a series of bathrooms stacked in the shape of a helix), built as part of scheme to transform four Victorian terraced houses into student housing in Paddington, London, in the late-1960s. More specifically, how architects Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell promoted plastics in architecture on aesthetic grounds in a way which has ul...

London, United Kingdom. In this viewpoint, I tell the story of Terry Farrell & Partners' TV-AM building (1981-83), a maverick television studios near Camden Lock. The TV-AM building, which - as the name suggests - was home to one Britain's first breakfast television programmes, is associated with the architectural style of postmodernism and with colour in architecture and interior design. The...

London, United Kingdom. The Barbican Redevelopment Scheme, comprising the Barbican Estate, Barbican Arts Centre and the office buildings around London Wall and Moorgate, is well known to people with an affection for twentieth-century architecture, and has become major cultural centre in its own right. Nevertheless, very few people are aware of how a type of plastic manufactured in rural Kent quiet...