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Meet the Cabaret-Dancing Pub Landlady Who Doesn’t Serve Pints
Welcome back to Last Call, where we visit watering holes around the world for life advice from their trusty barkeepers. Today, we meet landlady and former cabaret artist Lesley Lewis at The French House in London.
I Went Drinking at Dawn with London's Night Shift
I went to the places where builders, butchers, doctors, and other nocturnal laborers go after a hard night's work.
Tour London's New Subway in a Hybrid Animated Short Film
Daniela Sherer's 'Pipe Dreams' mixes monochromatic footage with abstract animations for a hypnotic look beneath London's streets.
I Took a Clairvoyant to the Excavation Site of a Mass Burial Pit for Plague Victims
She said she was "speaking" to the spirit of a boy who'd died during the Great Plague and been buried under Liverpool Street, along with 3,000 others.
Thousands of 'Non-Conformist' and Plague Skeletons Are Being Dug Out of Bedlam
Bedlam burial ground in central London was in use between 1569 and 1738, and it contains the remains of 20,000 people. Some of them are now being dug up and the bones might help scientists learn how to cure the plague.
A West London Housing Estate Is Turning into a Real-Life JG Ballard Novel
Forcing the rich and the poor to co-exist rarely works.