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Legal challenge over plans to demolish former Museum of London to build office blocks fails

Campaign group Barbican Quarter Organisation (BQO) claimed the City of London Corporation failed to properly consider alternative schemes

Evening Standard

Designs for a stunning new public square next to St Paul's Cathedral get green light

The new Greyfriars Square in the City of London is planned to be 3,500 sq metres in size

Evening Standard

How mudlarking on the Thames unlocks London’s secret riches

As the London Museum announces a mudlarking exhibition, mudlarker Lara Maiklem says combing the foreshore can transport you back in time

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The London exhibition you must see before it closes in July

Don’t miss the Museum of London’s brilliant Fashion City exhibition which is closing soon says Victoria Moss

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Upscale 128-room hotel to replace office blocks between Museum of London and Barbican

The Square Mile site will also include shops and a pocket park

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Buy into London's latest culture spots, from East Bank and Olympia to Soho Theatre 2.0

Be the first to the box office with these homes for sale near upcoming theatres, galleries, music venues and more

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Smithfield Market gets a new life as the Museum of London sets its plans in stone

The venue will reopen as the London Museum with double the public space

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Fashion City at the Museum of London Docklands review: charts Jewish Londoners’ mighty impact on fashion

This timely exhibition tells stories small and mighty of the impact Jewish people have had on the fashion industry

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‘Forgotten and overlooked’: how Jewish designers dressed the Beatles and changed global fashion

A new exhibition aims to highlight a huge but often ignored contribution to style in the Swinging 60s

The Guardian - UK

The London look: 10 fashion exhibitions in the capital

Autumn shows covering everything from the Georgians to the Kardashians, and from East End sweatshops to Chanel’s Paris

The Guardian - UK

Great Fire of London: Man who first raised alarm over blaze identified for the first time

Museum of London identifies Thomas Dagger as first witness to blaze which broke out at Pudding Lane bakery in 1666

Evening Standard

Sign of the times: Londoners asked to help with show at new multi-million pound London Museum

Staff at the new multi-million pound Museum of London are looking for a sign - or about 30 of them for an exhibition greeting visitors to the building.

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Museum of London begins two-year project to move 10,000 objects to new site

A prehistoric flint tranchet adze is the first item to be removed from display

Evening Standard

'Uncomfortable heritage': how cities are repurposing former slaughterhouses

In the second half of 2022, the Museum of London threw a five-month-long leaving do in anticipation of departing from its home of nearly 50 years. The museum has been housed in London Wall, on the Barbican estate in central London, since 1976. It is now preparing to relocate to…

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‘Mass murder makes money’: Mark Rylance’s campaign for a memorial to Iraq war protester Brian Haw

Haw, who died in 2011, camped on Parliament Square for 10 years, pushing for peace. Now actor Rylance is part of a campaign to honour him with a statue

The Guardian - UK

Baby Trump set to fly again as Museum of London reinflates blimp

Inflatable produced to lampoon former US president during his UK visits undergoes testing prior to installation in museum’s protest collection

The Independent UK

Trump baby blimp inflated again to establish ‘how best to preserve it’

The inflatable appeared in the skies above Parliament Square during protests over the former US president’s state visit to the UK in 2019.

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2023 Public Domain Debuts Include Last Sherlock Holmes Work

Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023. The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whipsmart detective — which has even ensnared Enola Holmes — will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring Jan.

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City Corporation plans huge overhaul of 1970s St Paul’s gyratory

Three options for calming traffic and creatinfg a new public square under consideration

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Museum of London releases ‘love letter’ to city after final weekend before 2026 relocation

The video love letter to London was released after the museum had a record-breaking last weekend

The Guardian - UK

The Museum of London: a fundamental clash as the City of London dreams on

As the museum prepares to leave its 70s home, plans to raze the site and build an office-led new complex have sparked a battle with those who want to repurpose what’s already there

Evening Standard

Port of London suspends new ‘mudlarking’ permits to protect River Thames’ ‘historical integrity’

Suspension of permits comes amid ‘large rise’ in foreshore finds being sold, risking disappearance of treasures

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Museum of London packs up for £250m move

LONDON: King Charles I's execution vest and 20,000 human remains are among the objects that need to be packed up as the Museum of London makes a daunting £250 million ($260 million) move.

Evening Standard

What to see at the Museum of London before it closes its doors for 3 years

From Tudor jerkins to Beatles dresses, there’s a lot to pack in

Evening Standard

Museum of London marks closure with DJ sets and late-night cinema

The museum is relocating from London Wall to West Smithfield

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