M@ (@mattfromlondon) — Bluesky Profile

3 weeks ago

Wow, thanks!

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1 month ago

Been working round town today. Of the four cafes/pubs I’ve been in, three played a Nick Drake track as background music. Has he been rediscovered yet again by a new generation (or did he never go away)?

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1 month ago

Great to see my local council are planting trees… in, um, the penalty box.

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1 month ago

TV. 100 years old today. I feel right proud to be invited to the original site where it happened, above Bar Italia in Soho. Got a selfie with Stooky Bill, the first face on TV.

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2 months ago

The History of London... in one Deranged Entanglogram Or 'what happens when I drink some whisky and let my brain tumble out'.

I put together this “entanglogram” of London history, which links together famous people, places, events, lost rivers, Tube lines and cats. It’s a little bit demented but I hope you like it. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

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2 months ago

The Marquis Cornwallis pub in Bloomsbury is a pleasant if unremarkable pub… until you go to the toilets and notice the battle scene hanging on the north wall

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2 months ago

Haha, cheers Lev… I’m on here but fairly quiet.

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2 months ago

Thanks Andrew!

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2 months ago

Thanks Lloyd… very kind of you.

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2 months ago

We asked people to come up with alternative names for the London boroughs, with prizes for the best. Here are the results… and Mike’s made pretend logos for the new boroughs….

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3 months ago

🎺🥁 ANNOUNCING the winners of our recent Rename a Borough competition!

🏆 Each will receive a signed map of Greater London AND a copy of 'The Boroughs of London' by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social

All of us enjoyed reading through the submissions, and here are our ten favourites: 🧵

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3 months ago

Blimey, my book was second only to the Booker Prize winner in Daunt bookshops last month, according to The Times. Sold out on Amazon, too! You can still track copies down in most high street bookshops though… they make excellent Christmas presents 😉

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3 months ago

Image of the book The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown

A reminder that this time next week @mattfromlondon.bsky.social and I will be at Enfield Waterstones signing copies of our book The Boroughs of London! ✍🏻📚

If you're in north London that evening, do stop by!

⏰ 6pm, Wed 26 Nov
📍 26 Church St, Enfield EN2 6BE

www.waterstones.com/events/the-b...

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3 months ago

Want to win our new book, The Boroughs of London? It’s the only competition ever (probably) where you have to pretend to be a 1960s London councillor…

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4 months ago

Dang, and the cycle lanes, too

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4 months ago

Aw thank you!

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4 months ago

So, so chuffed that The Boroughs of London is currently filling the window of @dauntbookspub.bsky.social in Marylebone. It’s a real honour. If you can’t get to the shop you can order from them here dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/t...

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4 months ago

Image of The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown, a hardback book published by Batsford. It features a colourful front cover design with the title contained within a white circle at the centre, around which radiates an arrangement of 32 segments, each containing a fragment of a different London Borough map.

The Boroughs of London by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social is now in the shops (out Oct 21st in North America)! 📚

Here’s a thread on what it’s about, what’s inside, and why - if you love all things London, local history, boundaries, facts, trivia and above all MAPS - you’re in for a treat.

🧵⬇️

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5 months ago

The Boroughs of London at 60 I put some words into a book.

I’ve been and done a book, with @thisismikehall.com It’s out now! A cartographic celebration of the 32 London boroughs (plus the Square Mile), with around 350 ideas of places to visit. It’s turned out handsomly (even if I haven’t) open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

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5 months ago

Mike Hall, the cover art for The Boroughs of London, and Matt Brown

🚨 London lovers! Come see me and Londonist supremo
@mattfromlondon.bsky.social talk about our new book THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON at Stanfords next month!

📍 Stanfords (@stanfordstravel.bsky.social) 7 Mercer Walk, WC2H 9FA
🗓️ 7pm, Thu 9th October
🎟️ £8.00 (inc 🍷)

➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-boroug...

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6 months ago

Cover art for The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown

A detail of a page from The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown, showing a map of the County of London in 1901 and the former Metropolitan Boroughs

A detail of a page from The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown, showing text and illustrations including an illustration of a dog

A detail of a page from The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown, showing various colourful statistical maps of Greater London

🚨 One month to go till THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON by me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social hits the shops!

Packed with maps and illustrations, learn about London's 32 boroughs, how they came to be, the fascinating places in each, and much more history and trivia besides. Preorder today!

ℹ️ bit.ly/BorosLdn

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6 months ago

At the lovely Mercia Marina — supposedly the largest inland marina in Europe — in Derbyshire. Besides the obvious, it has shops, restaurants, a Norse goddess, free bikes, and a Cheese Boat that also sells novelty socks. Idyllic.

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6 months ago

Think I’ll pass, cheers. But thanks for the offer

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7 months ago

Seems appropriate… #LondonBridge

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7 months ago

The Apple Store, Dorset style

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7 months ago

Promotional graphic by Waterstones, text reads:
25% OFF
On Upcoming Books
Pre-order now
With code:
SUMMER25
28-31 July | Online only

Includes an image of the front cover of the book The Boroughs of London by Mike Hall and Matt Brown, published by Batsford in October 2025

Detail from Mike Hall and Matt Brown’s new book, The Boroughs of London, published by Batsford in October 2025, showing the chapter heading and map for Southwark

Detail from Mike Hall and Matt Brown’s new book, The Boroughs of London, published by Batsford in October 2025, showing various colourful maps of Greater London comparing statistics for each borough

Detail from Mike Hall and Matt Brown’s new book, The Boroughs of London, published by Batsford in October 2025, showing a page from the chapter on Wandsworth, including illustrations of a dog, a sewing machine and a bingo card

A reminder that the nice people at Waterstones are offering a 25% discount on preorder copies of me and @mattfromlondon.bsky.social’s new book The Boroughs of London (UK shipping only). Offer ends midnight tomorrow!

➡️ www.waterstones.com/book/the-bor...

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7 months ago

A sequel too far?

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8 months ago

More for my 9yo, who was wondering if Beethoven was a one-hit wonder with his Ninth.

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8 months ago

An explicit version of Beethoven’s Fifth? What? I thought it was the Third that was dubbed the Erotica Symphony

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8 months ago

I’m pretty sure the Royal Courts of Justice in London inspired Castle Grayskull

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