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Here’s the link to a podcast of a Round Table discussion I took part in last month (May 2023), about the Empress Catherine II of Russia. https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/catherine-great-a-celebrity-across-time
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Coming up at 1:24, I describe the burning of heretics in Smithfield:
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Nice to have been able to get St Bartholomew the Great into this French TV history programme about Mary Tudor.
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The vast majority of the 100 Common Councilmen and 25 Aldermen who make up the City’s Court of Common Council declare themselves as ‘independent’, even if quite a few of them are signed-up members of political parties. And for the purposes of their role in the City Corporation, they are indeed independent – often fiercely
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Road safety is an issue of particular concern to me as a person with a ‘hidden disability’. You wouldn’t know to look at me that I have a sight problem – and, in this, I’m one of many, judging from my fellow outpatients in the Eye Hospital’s waiting areas. But my long-term condition of glaucoma
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I have a track record of achievement from my earlier period as a Councillor in the City (for the Ward of Farringdon Within from 2011 to 2017). Those achievements include: ¨ Working with fellow Common Councilman Henrika Priest (a current member for Castle Baynard) to make life better for residents in Carter Lane and its
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If you need to register to vote by post, here’s the link to apply to do so: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/voting-elections/Pages/postal-votes.aspx
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I was first elected to the Court of Common Council as a member for Farringdon Within in a by-election in March 2011, and was re-elected for a four-year term in March 2013. I am now seeking re-election for a further four-year term. There are 8 seats in Farringdon Within (it’s a large Ward), and 15
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I’ve just responded to an aspiring author on this topic, and thought it was worth sharing my advice (such as it is) more widely. Here’s what I told him: Here are a few thoughts based on my own experience of getting publishers/agents to be interested in my work. It’s always a struggle, as you have
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