Category: London

Shakespeare’s Globe The Globe London. Shakespeare’s Globe The Globe London is the most famous Shakespeare theatre in the world. In this historic venue, you can experience a rolling calendar of fantastic Shakespeare plays, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed by the very best Shakespearean actors. Where can I watch Shakespeare plays in London? […]

The London Wall was a defensive wall first built by the Romans around the strategically important port town of Londinium in c. AD 200, and is now the name of a modern street in the City of London. It has origins as an initial mound wall and ditch from c. London Wall. History Public access […]

Cost of Living NYC vs London Consumer Prices in London are 16.52% lower than in New York, NY (without rent) Rent Prices in London are 30.45% lower than in New York, NY. What’s more expensive NYC or London? Generally, London costs lower than New York. On average, rent and restaurants in London are about 70% […]

After a glittering career as an actor, playwright and theatre proprietor in London, Shakespeare retired in 1611 at the age of 47 to his home town of Stratford, where his wife and family had remained during all the years in which he had lived and worked in London. When did Shakespeare leave London to retire […]

Also, unlike their feral cousins, wood pigeons are very particular about their diet. Instead of eating fast food leftovers from the floor, wood pigeons get their nutrients from leaves, berries and other fruits they find. Can you feed the pigeons in London? Unfortunately, people have always fed pigeons in London. Ever since the old days, […]

Some time between 190 and 225, the Romans built the London Wall, a defensive ragstone wall around the landward side of the city. Along with Hadrian’s Wall and the road network, the London Wall was one of the largest construction projects carried out in Roman Britain. What did the Romans build in London? The Romans […]

the Globe Theatre. On 29th June 1613, a theatrical cannon misfired during a performance of Henry VIII and set fire to the thatch of the Globe Theatre, engulfing the roof in flames. Within minutes, the wooden structure was also alight, and in under an hour the Globe was destroyed. Did the Globe Theatre burned down […]

Shakespeare’s London was home to a cross-section of early modern English culture. Its populace of roughly 100,000 people included royalty, nobility, merchants, artisans, laborers, actors, beggars, thieves, and spies, as well as refugees from political and religious persecution on the continent. What was it like to live in Shakespeare’s London? “London was a violent place […]

Location. The Tower of London was built on the banks of the Thames to control it, to control the maritime traffic that was taking place there, but also to control the city of London. What was the Tower of London built for? In the 1070s, William the Conqueror, fresh from his victory but nervous of […]

Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world, and the oldest in Western Europe, predating other modern European capitals such as London, Paris and Rome by centuries. Is Lisbon the second oldest city in Europe? Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world, and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), […]