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The Organization of Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard, from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica – Wikimedia Commons The great deterrent against crime is not vindictive punishment; the more certain you make detection, the less severe your punishment...
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Elizabeth Robins Pennell on A Perfect Breakfast, 1900
Elizabeth Robins Pennell, an American biographer, food and art critic, and traveler who settle in London with her artist husband, Joseph Pennell, had a weakness for eating, cookery, and cookbooks. By...
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The Inner Life of a Gentleman’s Club
[T]he day at a club begins the night before. About 9 p.m., when the rush is over, the chef or chief cook takes stock of what is left on hand, and frames his estimate of what will be required for next...
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Going to Market in Edwardian London
London goes to market at Covent Garden, the one district which is astir early. Six o’clock is late and at eight the bargain hunters begin to be seen. At ten the garbage is being swept up and picked...
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Gladys de Grey and Covent Garden
When the Countess de Grey was not indulging in the opulent parties and affairs of the Marlborough House Set, she turned her attentions to reversing the decline of the Royal Italian Opera House...
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WWI Wednesday: After Dark in London
Karl Kingsley Kitchen (1883-1935) was an American journalist and man-about-town who wrote witty columns for various New York newspapers chronicling his travels, his meals, and his famous supper party...
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Afternoon Tea at Marlborough House
In the old days at Marlborough House, when the late King was Prince of Wales, says a writer in the Lady’s Realm, the exclusive afternoon tea parties given by the then Princess of Wales to her most...
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Opera Stars of the Edwardian Era
The Edwardian era was the apex of the Golden Age of Opera, which roughly dated between the 1880s and the early 1930s. Hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life crammed into opera houses...
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The Knut, or the Edwardian Man-About-Town
Basil Hallam as “Gilbert the Filbert” via The Sunday Times The Regency era Corinthian, the Parisian flâneur, and the Broadway playboy had its late Edwardian England counterpart in the knut. The word...
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Armistice Day, 1920: Homecoming of the Unknown Warrior
AT THE CENOTAPH IN WHITEHALL, LONDON, WHERE THE KING AND DIONITARTKS OF THE EMPIRE JOINED THE ARMISTICE DAY THRONG IN PAYING TRIBUTE TO AN UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER(© Colonial Press Service and Underwood...
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