(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
Jackson Mclarty set up the UK’s first Black-owned restaurant directory in the summer of 2020. A mid-pandemic plan to bring more attention to local food and catering businesses, Black Eats LDN was an instant success. Less than a year later, […]
London has got all sorts of fascinating disused railways. There’s the Victorian Necropolis Railway that used to transport dead bodies out of London, the short lived Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway, and the Mail Rail, an erstwhile train service that once ferried all of London’s […]
For 60 or so years the sinking of the RMS Titanic stood as a horrifying story of maritime disaster that also served as a cautionary parable of man’s hubris in believing it was possible to build a genuinely unsinkable passenger ship. Then, […]
Could sweltering London Underground platforms soon be a thing of the past? It’s been reported that temperatures on the tube have soared to as high as 31C in the past year. And Londoners can’t handle the heat. So, TfL has started trialling ‘state-of-the-art’ air […]
Fashion lovers are going to lose their heads over the V&A’s big autumn 2025 exhibition, focusing as it does on the sartorial tastes of one of history’s most notable bonce droppers. ‘Marie Antoinette Style’ will look at Marie Antoinette, the French queen […]
Mike Leigh, Andrea Arnold, Asif Kapadia are a few of the hometown heroes bringing their new films to this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The full line-up for this year’s London Film Festival (LFF) line-up has just been announced and […]
The non-stop 9 to 5 grind can really suck sometimes. So whether you’re the ripe old age of 25 or just a few years away from retirement, we don’t blame you for fantasizing about life post-work. Perhaps you’re envisioning a cottage […]