Miles Ellingham

London

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Articles

‘Still Life of a Mantelpiece and Mirror with Roses in a Jug’ by Edmund Fairfux-Lucy

1 day ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

Edmund Fairfax-Lucy was laying a carpet in his home at Charlecote Park when his heart gave out. The previous week, he’d felt a sharp pain in his chest but dismissed it. Presumably, the incident happened at the top of the stairs; nobody saw him fall, but his family found him face-up on the landing. Adorning the ceiling was a mural depicting some kind of faded battle scene and, directly above his unconscious body, there loomed a chubby, almost cherubic depiction of death.
To catch a hooligan

5 days ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

I’m standing alongside football policing officers in the West Ham London Stadiums’ CCTV panopticon, watching operators meticulously replaying a clip of a fan in an attempt to discern the difference between an outraged waving gesture and a Nazi salute. We’ve been granted access to this room, but aren’t allowed to photograph its interior, so I’ll attempt to describe it to you. Imagine a room where everything happens all at once and nothing passes by.
Postcard from Tokyo: the romance of heavy industry by night

6 days ago | ft.com | Miles Ellingham

It’s a cliché but it’s true: Tokyo changes after dark.
The little Italian job

1 week ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

Holy water, incense and mea culpas. An old man in a brown flannel jacket unfurls into a standing position and begins to strike his chest before shrinking back into the pews. “Confesso a Dio Padre onnipotente e a voi, fratelli, che ho molto peccato.” Father Andrea Fulco moved to London from Lazio roughly a decade ago, he’s well known around here. “I confess to God the Father almighty and to you, brothers, that I have sinned greatly”.
"It's like the hunger games": How to try for West End stardom

2 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

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Toby Carvery felled an ancient oak tree. So why is everyone blaming Spurs?

3 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

“This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most inexplicable, most devastating tree felling that I've seen." Thanks for reading today's story. You can now become a paying member of The Londoner, giving you access to all of our members-only stories. Until the end of April, we're running a forever 20% early-bird discount on memberships. So if you become one of our early backers, you'll always get 20% off your subscription, as an eternal gesture of thanks for your faith in us.
Digging up London

4 weeks ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

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Ofsted vs Stamford Hill

1 month ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

It’s an overcast Thursday in March or, according to the Hebrew calendar, the fourteenth day of Adar — Purim — in Stamford Hill. Theologically, the religious holiday of Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people via the foiling of an antisemitic plot and the pre-emptive killing of 70,000 Achaemenidians. But in contemporary Britain, many people just know it as “Jewish Halloween”. Stamford Hill’s Jewish roots extend back well into the 18th century.
Beetlemania: the crack team responding to London’s insect invasion

1 month ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

In the depths of a London institution you’ll find 27,000 boxes, nine million beetles and a race against time Max Barclay, one of the senior curators at the Natural History Museum, is ferrying me past enormous fossils and raging rivers of school children. “We have about 14,000 people through the door on an average day”, he explains, barely audible over the noise. Eventually we arrive at a heavy side door.
The 20 best war movies ever made

1 month ago | gq.com.au | Miles Ellingham |Killian Faith-Kelly