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Event Description
Highlights of the British Museum
See the highlights of one of the greatest museums in the world and hear its amazing stories from a former official British Museum tour guide. We choose our favourite objects from across the globe and bring them alive, looking up original locations where they were found and tell their stories. We choose the highlights of important objects from 5 continents, tell the stories behind them and how they got to the museum.
Trafalgar Square
This is the story of the most famous square in London, a place filled with many stories, a place of a memorial to teenage love , a place of violent punishment , a place of celebrations and protests and first and foremost it’s a memorial for a decisive naval victory and England's greatest hero.
A stroll down the Strand
The road called the Strand beside the River Thames is barely a mile long yet has so much to tell about the city. Let’s all go down the Strand (have a banana!). And let’s do it virtually with old photos, paintings, Google Earth street views, lots of stories and a few laughs on the way. You can even bring a banana.
It housed the riverside palaces of the Savoy, Somerset House and the Duke of Buckingham. There’s an Egyptian obelisk on the embankment built to house a huge sewer. Close by is Benjamin Franklin’s house, then there’s the bustle of Trafalgar square and the idyllic gardens of Temple where there’s a 900 year old Crusader church and close by, the Royal Courts of Justice.
The Houses of Parliament Virtual Tour: The story of how we came to power
Room by fascinating room, in 360 degrees, let’s discover the thousand year old history of how we got the vote. We’ll sky-dive in to London and go in to many parts of the Houses of Parliament building, visit its ornate Gothic rooms, the bustling Members’ lobby, the austere Westminster Hall, feel the heat of the debating chambers and several more.
This virtual tour covers the turbulent history in the birth of British democracy, a constant battle between monarch and parliament with gunpowder plots, a civil war, a royal execution, a fire and world war two bombs. We’ll look at pivotal moments and their impact on us today, from the Magna Carta, the Barons’ Revolt, the Bill of rights, the model parliament and votes for women.
- Duration: 60 mins x 4
- Online Zoom event: Join from your computer, phone or tablet (a recording will be available)
Meet the Host, Loona
If he could choose a super-power from a choice of teleporting, flying or time-travelling, he says he'd choose choose time-travelling hands down, seven days a week and twice on Sundays.
Loona Hazarika is a tour guide, historian and storyteller who’s guided thousands of people around London and beyond since 2006. He's made several appearances on TV documentaries (BBC1’s ‘The Hairy Builder’ working with Dave Myers the Hairy Biker, SKY Atlantic’s ‘Urban Secrets’ working with actor Alan Cumming and BBC1’s ‘The Repair Shop’) and is also a voice actor (you might hear his voice on audio guides or some commercials). He loves bringing history alive with energy and lots of stories and hold a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge.
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