In the middle of the brutalist Barbican stands the medieval church of St Giles Cripplegate with some prominent and some touchingly simple memorials to many famous men, and one intriguing woman.
From the theatres of Southwark to the hills of Sydenham, Edward Alleyn, the great actor of the English renaissance stage established a school in South London which, nearly 400 years later, […]
On Shakespeare’s birthday, I have put together a podcast about the two famous Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres in London: the Rose and the Globe. What was it, and what is […]
