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Lydia Manch

London

Writer at Londonist

Writer at The Arbuturian

@londonist mostly. IG @lydiamanch

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  • 3 weeks ago | londonist.substack.com | Lydia Manch

    Hi and welcome to your weekend newsletter… This edition’s a handful of historic London gardens opening their doors to the public next month as part of Open Gardens 2025. Running 7th-8th June 2025, it’s a chance to explore behind the scenes at more than 100 London gardens across the city — a lot of them private, that otherwise don’t have regular public access.

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

    Hi and welcome to your weekend newsletter… This edition’s a handful of the great escapes effected by London’s animal population across the centuries.

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

    Hi and welcome to your bank holiday weekend newsletter… 🍁 As I’m holidaying this weekend, this edition’s a reshare and update of a newsletter from a year ago. As we’ve more than doubled in subscribers since then, hopefully there are plenty of readers this’ll be new to… And with the Canadian elections coming up next week, it feels like nice timing to revisit some of the many pieces of Canadian history from over the centuries that you can still visit in London.

  • 1 month 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 months 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.

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Lydia Manch
Lydia Manch @lydiamanch
11 May 23

west London entering its Eye of Sauron era https://t.co/s7rKyGDrD6

Lydia Manch
Lydia Manch @lydiamanch
19 Mar 23

I wrote a small song of praise to the pub making maybe the best Caesar in London 🍁

Londonist
Londonist @Londonist

Our Pub of the Week is London's most Canadian boozer - the Maple Leaf https://t.co/673aYv8nJ1

Lydia Manch
Lydia Manch @lydiamanch
24 Feb 23

a little Hackney Wick fitpic ☀️ https://t.co/zP6Ojn2wjP