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By M@ Last Updated 30 April 2025 M@ Tube Station Bookswaps Are Back A bookswap at Northfields station. Image: Matt Brown 15 Tube stations will once again feature bookswaps after TfL finds "a "suitable fire-proof storage solution".

2 weeks ago | londonist.com | Matt Brown

By M@ Last Updated 23 April 2025 M@ See The Dunkirk Little Ships In London Dunkirk Little Ships Sundowner and Wairakei II during the crossing in 2015. Image: ADLS and Mick Gentry A flotilla of 'Little Ships' will pass along the Thames in mid-May, before sailing on to Dunkirk.

2 weeks ago | londonist.com | Matt Brown

By M@ Last Updated 25 April 2025 M@ A London Pope? How The Papacy Could Have Moved To England Might Pius IX have given up the Vatican for London? Image: Public Domain Curious rumours once swirled that the Papacy was moving to London, permanently. May 1861, and the newly created state of Italy was in turmoil.

3 weeks ago | londonist.com | Matt Brown

By M@ Last Updated 24 April 2025 M@ Explore The Regent's Park Estate's New Story Trail A new art trail has arrived in the Regent's Park housing estate, just west of Euston. And it's a cracker. A host of site-specific artwork by 10 artists is now peppered across the streets between Euston and Regent's Park.

3 weeks ago | londonist.com | Matt Brown

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. Is your local listed? Macintosh Ales is proof that pubs can come in all shapes and sizes. Squeezed into the corner of an old stables building, this hidden away gem has some claim to the title of London's most micro micropub. Its tiny 'main' room squeezes in three or four tables, and their attendant battered stools. The rest is bar. To be fair, there is a side-room, but unless you're playing darts, there's not much reason to enter it.