London Eye History Links

Secret history (InsideHousing)

There aren’t many housing association properties that you enter through a rusting air-lock. But it is surely a small price to pay to visit a secret World War II bunker.

JAN MOIR: Grow up Jacqui, it's your law that belongs in the gutter (Daily Mail)

For someone who never gambles, I am an unlikely member of a posh London casino. To be honest, I only go now and again because the casino has a lovely 18th-century bar, where you can drink a perfectly mixed cocktail in comfort.

Academic sliced out sections of priceless collection (Mail and Guardian)

To the untrained eye the damage is barely visible. Yet within the handbound pages of books charting how Europeans travelled to Mesopotamia, Persia and the Mogul empire from the 16th century onwards, the damage caused by one Iranian academic to a priceless British Library collection is irreversible.

The phoney philanthropists (Independent)

They used to be high-rolling gamblers dealing in the newest, smartest stock on financial markets. They rode the dotcom boom, investing other people's wealth, living a millionaire's lifestyle and returning eye-watering profits for their clients.