Lydia Manch

1 week ago | londonist.substack.com | Lydia Manch

Hi and welcome to your belated weekend newsletter… This edition’s a handful of rituals and ceremonies bound up in the history of London — some of them are traditions that would sound elaborately strange enough even if they’d been left behind in whatever century and circumstances birthed them. Some of them are all the stranger for being relatively new. All of them you can still partake in today. And there are a lot that didn’t make the list.

2 weeks ago | londonisturbanpalette.substack.com | Lydia Manch

This is a guest post by Lydia Manch, originally published on our sister newsletter Londonist: Time Machine. Make sure you’re subscribed to receive weekly articles about the city’s history from unusual angles, and join thousands of other London history enthusiasts.

1 month ago | londonist.substack.com | Lydia Manch |Matthew Brown

Hi and welcome to your weekend newsletter… This edition’s a handful of historic benches around London, from ancient perches to poetic memorials to Grade II-listed, repurposed chunks of Victorian London. Bench-lovers will also find an amazing resource in this notable London benches collection from , meticulously grouped into important bench categories including Arty Benches, Animal Benches, and Benches That Look Like Erections.

1 month ago | londonist.substack.com | Lydia Manch

Hi and welcome to your weekend newsletter… This edition’s a handful of moments from the history of Art on the Underground — specifically, artworks that first saw the light of day (or the fluorescent non-daylight of a tunnel deep below the streets of the city) on London’s public transport network. The programme, originally called Platform for Art when it started in 2000, was renamed Art on the Underground in 2008 in acknowledgement of the way it had expanded beyond its first remit.

1 month ago | londonist.com | Lydia Manch

By Lydia Manch Last Updated 07 March 2025 Lydia Manch Five London Women Of The Second World War This feature first appeared in March 2024 on Londonist: Time Machine, our much-praised history newsletter. To be the first to read new history features like this, sign up for free here. The statue in Bloomsbury honouring Noor Inayat Khan.