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Pepys' House, 12 Buckingham Street, on background map of area

Working from home with Samuel Pepys

Post author:DavidMullany
Post published:August 30, 2021
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Take a stroll down Buckingham Street with David Mullany to check out the view from Sam's 17th century home office and learn about the street's many other illustrious residents

The church and hospital of Savoy, London: view from Southwark. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. (http://wellcomeimages.org). Engraving by G. Vertue, 1750. Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Strand: the route from trade to power

Post author:FelicityWentzel
Post published:April 6, 2021
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Long gone are the grand houses that once lined this thoroughfare linking London's centres of government and commerce, but traces of their past grandeur can still be found, as Felicity Wenzel explains