Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

London, United Kingdom. The court performances of the early seventeenth century presented an image of perfect political harmony; but backstage the reality was very different.

London, United Kingdom. Step inside a sixteenth-century house in Smithfield.

London, United Kingdom. For more than 800 years, in frosty weather the frozen Thames played host to spectacular festivals.

London, United Kingdom. Join the crowds at a royal joust in honour of Elizabeth I.

London, United Kingdom. For Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway the clocks of Big Ben and St Margaret’s, Westminster do more than just tell the time.

London, United Kingdom. In Elizabethan London, Richard Walweyn’s trousers were a literal crime of fashion.

London, United Kingdom. Flames are racing towards your house: what do you save? In 1666, Samuel Pepys prioritised his cheese.

London, United Kingdom. Polymath and rogue Thomas Gemini peddles his wares in Tudor Blackfriars.

London, United Kingdom. Scholars fleeing the burgeoning Nazi Party find a safe haven in 1930s Bloomsbury.

London, United Kingdom. From a mechanical garden to an automatic tea-table, in the late eighteenth century you were bound to find something extraordinary at Merlin’s Museum of Mechanical Amusements.