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One of the largest libraries in the world. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and has around 170–200...

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher and critic. She is recognised as one of the most important...

Émile Zola was born on this day (2 April) in 1840. Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, playwright and journalist. He was a naturalist...

Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English author famed for writing detective novels, short stories, plays and poems. 🕵️‍♀️ Some of...

Highgate Cemetery, in North London, is a place of burial where many famous people rest; there are two sides of the cemetery, and both are...

An outdoor sculpture of Oscar Wilde in central London. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a famous Irish writer, poet and playwright best known...

John Keats (1795-1821) was a Romantic English poet; although, he only published fifty-four poems (dying prematurely at age 25), he is one...

One of London's oldest pubs with strong literary connections. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a hugely significant pub with regards to...

Westminster Abbey is a Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster in which Poets' Corner is found; this is a treasure and inspiration...

At this location is a sculpture of Sir Thomas More in a small garden next to Chelsea Old Church. It was made by sculptor, Leslie Cubitt...

One of the greatest poets in English literature George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) – widely known as Lord Byron – was an English poet and...

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the longest running play in history.

Charles Dickens' Inspiration The Old Curiosity Shop was a novel written by Charles Dickens; it was famously published in two instalments...

Did you know that the famous French writer Voltaire once lived in London? Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) – under the pen name of...

The Spaniards is an iconic London pub in Hampstead area dating back to the 1500s. The Spaniards Inn is an historic London pub with a...

Senate House Library is a nineteen-storey Art Deco building designed by Charles Holden and built in the 1930s. It is one of the UK’s...