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Pop goes the weasel
World Wide Words provides the following explanation: Some of the references are now quite opaque, but we can take a fair shot at a few. In the second verse, the City Road was, still is, a well-know...
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Votes for Women
LSE History gives: "... Frederick and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, who owned and edited the WSPU newspaper Votes for Women. Founded in 1907, Votes for Women was printed at the St Clement’s Press on C...
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Christmas cards
The first card was designed by John Horsley. Â The Mail has some pictures of early Christmas cards.
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Television
John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. See Londonist's excellent post How Television Was Invented In London. We love it when our friends d...
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Les Miserables the musical
Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985. Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...
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