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London’s Lost Pneumatic Railway

John Bull
April 12, 2015
Design & Tech, Longform
In Get Them on the Blower we looked at the fascinating history of London's forgotten Pneumatic tubes, which carried messages throughout the...

Get Them On The Blower

Long Branch Mike
February 14, 2015
Design & Tech, Longform
9 Comments
Pneumatic messaging blows cylindrical carriers in tubes, carrying messages and small items in closed systems, which were pioneered and developed in...

How Quincy M.E. Changed U.S. Medical History

John Bull
January 22, 2015
Longform, TV & Film
As some readers may know (or indeed have spotted on here), TV history is one of my particular areas of interest. I'm lucky enough to be one of the...

Deeds not Words: The Women of Endell Street

John Bull
January 7, 2015
Longform, Politics & War
2 Comments
Look around Endell Street in Holborn today and you could be forgiven for thinking it just an average London street. But one hundred years ago this...

Helping School Children Explore WW1 with Joe Sacco’s The Great War

John Bull
December 20, 2014
Books, Politics & War
1 Comment
I'm a big fan of helping others learn more about history - particularly when it involves thinking a little bit of the box to make the subject really...

Fire and Theory: Defending The Welfare State

John Bull
November 25, 2014
Politics & War
I freely admit that I don't write here very much. Being Editor of London Reconnections and writing about TV history for Cult TV Times (I got to write...

The Long Way Round: Part 3

John Bull
August 11, 2014
Longform, Politics & War
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Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Linka). 13518 miles to go The British, Ford decided, were a very strange race. On the one hand they had welcomed both him...

The Long Way Round: Part 2

John Bull
August 10, 2014
Longform, Politics & War
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Auckland, 14th December 1941 Since arriving at Auckland a week earlier, Bob Ford had settled into a regular morning routine. Every day he would...

The Long Way Round: Part 1

John Bull
August 9, 2014
Longform, Politics & War
The morning of 6th January 1942 was a going to be a cold one. Not that this was unusual for New York, mused the controller manning LaGuardia’s...

Walter Tull Gets A Commemorative Coin

John Bull
July 7, 2014
Longform, Sport
Over the next couple of years the Royal Mint are releasing a number of commemorative coins to mark the anniversary of WW1. Hearteningly it seems that...
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