Charlie Holland

shot looking down at a woman on a small platform over a street. its a long way down, she is skipping while on the small platform

'During a performance for a Shriners convention, a Sky Dancer aerialist skips rope on a small platform high (at least 20 stories) above the streets of downtown, Chicago'
John Dominis, 1955

London’s music halls back in the spotlight at new exhibition Bawdy and sentimental, these venues are hiding in plain sight — but their initial purpose is long gone. A new exhibition tells their story

I wrote a piece about London music halls for The Times ahead of an exhibition at The London Archive. @victorianlondon.bsky.social was among the contributors. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

State of Gandhi behind bars with a security man standing in front.

State of Fawcett behind bars, close up from face to torso.

State of Gandhi behind bars from behind with Parliament in the background.

State of Mandela behind bars, close-up from head to torso.

🚨BREAKING: Activists have imprisoned DANGEROUS TERRORISTS Mandela, Gandhi, and Millicent Fawcett statues in Parliament Square.

They've been placed behind bars to expose the UK's extreme crackdown on protest.

The heroes the government celebrates would be imprisoned today under their extreme laws.

A Facebook ad by Metro promoting their article that reads: “Metro 2d Companies and landlords are setting up underground snail breeding rackets in another way to avoid paying their share of tax METRO Why are there snail breeding farms in London's most expensive buildings?”

The Metro’s headline with byline that gives no credit to London Centric: “Why are there snail breeding farms in London's most expensive buildings? ORIGINAL Brooke Davies Published October 24, 2025 6:00am Updated October 24, 2025 10:11am”

Oh look @jim.londoncentric.media, The Metro suddenly has an ‘original’ story on snail farming tax avoidance remarkably like the wonderful story that @londoncentric.media comprehensively researched and published a few days earlier.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Here's a question for you before 7am.

If you're in London, 1886, and you pop to your local public hall to watch boxing, wrestling, military displays, a man cutting a sheep in half with a sword &c. would you expect that sheep to be:

- a fake sheep
- real sheep, but dead
- alive (well, briefly)

?

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TOMORROW NIGHT - 'In the Limelight' - A History of Black Performers in Morecambe. We look forward to hearing Kirsty Roberts, talking about the Black performers who regularly graced the town's stages—artists like Adelaide Hall, Clayton 'Peg Leg' Bates, and Cassie Walmer. Book HERE

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

150 years ago, Sir Charles Wheatstone died in a hotel room in Paris surrounded by his family & friends.
Let’s celebrate the inventor of the Stereoscope (and of many other things) in the hope that we can do something in the near future to honour him properly. www.charleswheatstone.com
#Wheatstone150

I'm publishing the weirdest story I've ever written tomorrow, for London Centric members only.

So here's an one-off offer. Sign up for a year before midnight today and I'll give you 33% off. If the story doesn't live up to expectations, I'll refund you tomorrow. www.londoncentric.media/a21e85e7

Rail Clock A reproduction of the Great British Railways clock

There's a cool new clock at London Bridge called Rail Clock! I've made an online version of it: railclock.matteason.co.uk

Code here: github.com/matteason/ra...

Just had an email about renewing my @newscientist.com sub and there's no way to cancel online 🙄😡 I have to ring them up, FFS. This should be against the law.

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel

If you continue to hold on to your X account..
If you continue to drive a Tesla...
If you continue using Starlink...

Remember who and what you’re supporting.
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson’s legal costs.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

I think train drivers should be encouraged to randomly go on the tannoy and tell the passenger using the speaker phone to plug in their headphones.

Because there will be one somewhere on the train, and maybe it can slowly nudge more considerate behaviour.

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

I hereby nominate the Portland Frog for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In Wales, Cornwall, Edinburgh, London and so many places when most 30mph roads were changed to 20mph, people injured or killed by motor vehicles reduced by 20%+. With minimal change to journey times and £2bn saving in insurance costs it's a huge win. bit.ly/4gIBPlJ

A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.

Print and send this chart (from your newsletter on Tuesday) to every household in the country.

I'm writing this book partly, mostly, for readers who aren't already into boxing 🥊

The Devil's Dance Floor is about pugilists, pressmen, policemen, and Alf Ball's pet puma. Murder, madness, Jem Smith's tight tights. We got wives. Bald bears. A Victorian epidemic of discarded orange peel! Smallpox!

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Bales of hay on a bicycle trailer parked at Loughborough Junction.

The Hay Wain, rural Brixton, October 2025.

One of those stories that lifts the day.

Congratulations on coming of age!

European Circus History Conference Copenhagen, Thu 15 - Sat 17 April 2027

Heads up! The next edition of the biennial European Circus History Conference will take place in Denmark at the wonderful Copenhagen Circus Museum from Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th April 2027. Read more at circusconference.org

EUROPEAN ROUTE OF HISTORIC THEATRES - Sat 25 Oct 2025 2pm - FREE at V&A Lydia&ManfredGorvey LectureTheatreSW7 2RL
Mark Fox explains the Route’s genesis (120 theatres across 30 countries) current status and future plans.
Book in advance www.ticketsource.co.uk (search Frank Matcham Society)