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A Great Fire of London Museum in an Old Public Toilet

Adam is standing outside a public toilet next to the Monument in the City of London. Except it isn’t a toilet any more… It’s the Monument Micro Museum, a brand new museum all about the Great Fire of London, and it might just be the smallest museum in…

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Victorian Surgery at London’s Oldest Operating Theatre

Adam climbs a narrow spiral staircase, fifty-two steps of it, into the roof of an old church by London Bridge. Up there is the oldest surviving operating theatre in Europe…It was built in 1822, in the attic where the hospital apothecaries had been dr…

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Victorian Surgery at London’s Oldest Operating Theatre

Adam climbs a narrow spiral staircase, fifty-two steps of it, into the roof of an old church by London Bridge. Up there is the oldest surviving operating theatre in Europe…It was built in 1822, in the attic where the hospital apothecaries had been dr…

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Skeletons and a Jar of Moles at the Grant Museum of Zoology

Adam is in Bloomsbury this week, at the Grant Museum of Zoology. It is part of University College London, it is one room, and that room is packed floor to ceiling with skeletons, jars and glass cases…It is one of the few university zoology museums le…

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Skeletons and a Jar of Moles at the Grant Museum of Zoology

Adam is in Bloomsbury this week, at the Grant Museum of Zoology. It is part of University College London, it is one room, and that room is packed floor to ceiling with skeletons, jars and glass cases…It is one of the few university zoology museums le…

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Riding the Mail Rail Under London

Bex heads to the Postal Museum in Clerkenwell, and then underneath it. Mail Rail is a tiny railway built to carry post across London, running in tunnels below the streets since the 1920s, and you get to ride through the original tunnels on a train that…

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Riding the Mail Rail Under London

Bex heads to the Postal Museum in Clerkenwell, and then underneath it. Mail Rail is a tiny railway built to carry post across London, running in tunnels below the streets since the 1920s, and you get to ride through the original tunnels on a train that…

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Sweet Wrappers and Cereal Boxes at the Museum of Brands

Adam is in Notting Hill this week, at a museum made almost entirely of the things most people throw away. The Museum of Brands has kept the packaging: cereal boxes, sweet wrappers, toys, comics and adverts going back to the Victorians…The heart of it…

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Sweet Wrappers and Cereal Boxes at the Museum of Brands

Adam is in Notting Hill this week, at a museum made almost entirely of the things most people throw away. The Museum of Brands has kept the packaging: cereal boxes, sweet wrappers, toys, comics and adverts going back to the Victorians…The heart of it…

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A Thousand Years of History at Oxford Castle and Prison

Adam visits Oxford Castle and Prison to step back in time and explore the city’s past.There has been something standing on this spot for a thousand years, and a costumed guide walks you through the lot, from Viking raids and the Norman conquest to the …

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