Tag: London
Wembley Stadium Remembering Queen Elizabeth
London Pride March – 50th Anniversary
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ community groups attended the march from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall Palace earlier.
Revellers wearing face paint, glitter, jewels and sequins joined the celebrations as Pride returned for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The event, hailed as the most inclusive in history, included performances from Ava Max and Emeli Sande.
The parade paid homage to the original 1972 march, organised by the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), and saw revellers pass significant sites from the UK’s LGBTQ+ movement.
Related historical note, here’s how things were in the early 70’s, in New York:
“Arthur Bell, culture writer for The Village Voice, was arrested for holding another man’s hand as they crossed the street. You read that correctly. It was 1973, and you could still be arrested for holding another man’s hand in public.”
I Was Better Last Night
Harvey Fierstein
London Parkour POV
NOTE – From the youtube description: It’s fake BTw 😂😂
(Looks cool to me, regardless.)
See also: https://www.storror.com/
Children carrying holly and mistletoe, London, December 1915
Memory of Old, Rural London
In the Middle Ages cities were as rural as the country is now. Children still sing the nursery rime:
Upon Paul’s steeple stands a tree
As full of apples as may be,
The little boys of London town
They run with sticks to knock them down.
And then they run from hedge to hedge
Until they come to London Bridge.
Paul’s steeple is gone, and I do not know at what date the hedges disappeared between St. Paul’s and London Bridge. It is many centuries since the little boys of London town could enjoy such pleasures as this rime suggests, but until not so very long ago the bulk of the population lived in the country. The towns were not very vast; it was easy to get out of them and by no means uncommon to find gardens attached to many houses in them.
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Over London by rail: 1872, Dore
Over London by rail. Engraving. View of the London slums by Gustave Dore from ‘Londre a Pilgrimage’, first published in 1872. This illustration is a bird’s eye view of the slums of London, it shows the poor and overcrowed conditions in which the poor lived in Victorian times, where “There is a desperate, ferocious levity in the air… they (the poor) are the workless of a work-a day London – born in idleness to die in the workhouse, or upon bare boards.”