The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, commonly known as the Goldsmiths' Company, is one of the twelve Great Livery Companies of the City of London. This thre.
This inspiring timeline shows the top milestones in the female work environment - from Katherine Fenkyll taking over her husband’s drapery business in 1479 - to women being allowed to join the London Stock Exchange in 1973.
This inspiring timeline shows the top milestones in the female work environment - from Katherine Fenkyll taking over her husband’s drapery business in 1479 - to women being allowed to join the London Stock Exchange in 1973.
This inspiring timeline shows the top milestones in the female work environment - from Katherine Fenkyll taking over her husband’s drapery business in 1479 - to women being allowed to join the London Stock Exchange in 1973.
The exuberant queenhood-is-powerful pageant about the wives of Henry VIII was shut down on opening night by the pandemic. Now it’s back, and it totally rules.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Sketch of conductor, attributed to Alfred Edward Chalon, 1840. Art Institute of Chicago, Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection.
In 1557 the legal printer Richard Tottel published an auspicious volume of English poetry:
Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other, or as Thomas Warton, who wrote the first modern literary history in the late eighteenth century, called it, “the first printed miscellany of English poetry.” According to Warton, Tottel salvaged “many admirable specimens of antient genius” when he “collected at a critical period, and preserved in a printed volume” poems that had previously “mouldered in manuscript.”
Explore our unique, historic map layersGet started A map showing bomb damage during World War II. The original maps are at the London Metropolitan Archives. A map showing bomb damage during World War II. The original maps are at the London Metropolitan Archives. A survey of the City of London and the surrounding built-up area, completed in 1682 by William Morgan. A Map of Tudor London, in about 1520. Reconstructed by modern historians and archaeologists and published by the Historic Towns Trust in 2018. The Booth Poverty Map from 1898-9. Each street is coloured to indicate the income and social class of its inhabitants.