Christina Faraday on Placecloud Dr Christina Faraday
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- History
Come on a journey with me around London as we explore weird and wonderful inhabitants, events and places from history. For the geo-located experience, check them out on the Placecloud website.
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John Joseph Merlin’s Museum of Mechanical Amusements
From a mechanical garden to an automatic tea-table, in the early nineteenth-century you were bound to find something extraordinary at Merlin’s Museum of Mechanical Amusements. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.
Address: 11 Princes St, London W1B 2LJ -
Elizabethan Jousting at Whitehall Palace
Join the crowds at a royal joust in honour of Elizabeth I. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.
Address: Whitehall, London SW1A 2AX -
Quarrelling Artisans at Whitehall Banqueting House
The court performances of the early seventeenth century presented an image of perfect political harmony; but backstage the reality was very different. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.
Address: Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1A 2ER -
Samuel Pepys’s Cheese, Seething Lane
Flames are racing towards your house: what do you save? In 1666, Samuel Pepys prioritised his cheese. A viewpoint originally recorded for Placecloud.
Address: Seething Ln, EC3R, London EC3N 4AT -
Refugee Scholars in 1930s London: The Warburg Institute
Scholars fleeing the burgeoning Nazi Party find a safe haven in 1930s Bloomsbury. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.
Address: The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB -
Thomas Gemini’s Printer’s Shop in Blackfriars
Polymath and rogue Thomas Gemini peddles his wares in Tudor Blackfriars. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.
Address: Somewhere around Playhouse Yard, London EC4V 5EX