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Stench and the City

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Stench and the City

I spotted this hilarious photo in The Metro, the nose sculpture was picked to promote the The London Dungeons'  'Stinky Summer' exhibition.

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Renaissance Beauty Secrets - Natural Cosmetic Making

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If my previous post on the 17th century beauty lecture I attended whetted your appetite, well exciting news...

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Wake up and smell the coffee ..

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On a Saturday afternoon, I am standing on the steps of St Michaels Church on Cornhill, near Bank  meeting other coffee and history lovers, ready to embark on a Coffee House Tour of the City...

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A Fantasmagoria of Windmakers

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The historical use and creation of Fans date back to ancient times, primarily in a functional capacity as a ‘wind-maker’, to provide shade and to swat and deflect insects (lovely!); imagine the...

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Dirt - what is it good for?

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“In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank...

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