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Gresham College does not have any students, does not confer any diplomas or degrees, and yet has survived over 400 years as a centre for intelligent discourse.

The City of London is best known as a financial centre. But among the modern office buildings, it has a surprising wealth of fine churches.

Writers including Virginia Woolf, Alan Bennett, Will Self, Jan Morris, Peter Ackroyd, Ruth Rendell and Monica Ali describe London, the Olympics 2012 city, in words.

Without a professional police force it is difficult to imagine how law and order can be maintained. In various forms policing dates back to pre Christian times

A sober history of financial services and the City of London from 1987 until 2008 when financial markets were in turmoil as banks collapsed and the Credit Crunch struck.

Travelling to or from a London Airport by road or rail? Here are directions from Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and London City to Central London and beyond.

This week, I'll start looking at the Middle Ages in the news.

London's hotels are notoriously expensive, but many of the city's universities provide budget accommodation during the summer months.

The tiny area known as 'The City' is only one square mile yet it is one of the world's leading centers of finance. Just a short walk from St. Paul's Cathedral.

Tate Modern is the world's largest modern art gallery housed in former power station. Its industrial scale design allows it to show enormous works of art.

Museum of London exhibition shows the astonishing Roman finds of metal dishes, bowls and vessels from archaeological dig in Drapers Gardens near Bank of England.

Thriving theatres and performers treated with suspicion survived during the lifetime of Queen Elizabeth I, but later went into decline under pressure.

The Norman Foster-designed London City Hall is open to visitors Monday to Friday. Go to London's Living Room for unrivalled views of Tower Bridge and the Thames River.

If visiting England's Oxford don't miss the Ashmolean Museum, Balliol College, Christ Church of Harry Potter fame, Bodleian Library, Botanic Gardens and literary pubs.

Travelers to Utah left Salt Lake City impressed by the organization and audacity of the Mormon settlement in the middle of the desert.

Flying around in Russia and Eastern Europe is getting cheaper and easier every day, as homegrown and other European budget airlines race to provide the most routes.

For family film lovers, these suggestions provide a fun movie night.

A Traveller's History of the USA gives visitors to America a potted history of the country, covering people, places, culture, politics, and all in one paperback book.

Lord Myners, the British government's financial services secretary, has this week said that British banks are partly to blame for the current global recession.

The BBC Proms Out + About concert will perform at multiple points around the city of London, for a full day of free classical music in public places.

Beefeater is the only London-style dry gin actually distilled and bottled in London.

city-lit books are a new kind of travel guide, showing a city through the eyes of writers new and old. The Paris title ranges from Proust and Victor Hugo to Kate Muir.

Simmons' successor to Arctic adventure The Terror neatly fuses narrator Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone with The Mystery of Edwin Drood, laced with mesmerism and Egyptology

Lots of scenes in Harry Potter movies were filmed in London, so if having a vacation in England's capital city why not put together your own wizard Harry Potter tour?

Lancaster Gate is located opposite Kensington Gardens in London, a vast "playground" for children tired after visits to Museums, with some good hotels in the vicinity.

As Liverpool prepares to be European City of Culture 2008, a new company offers ghost tours on Merseyside. Shiverpool Tours will lead spooky ghost tours of Albert Dock

Liverpool Street Station has around 125 million or so visitors a year. A good example of an historic building with many modern facilities. It also is very beautiful.

The new season of New Generation Artists features a jazz trumpeter, a harpsichordist, cellist,, string quartet, violinist and more.

The silver saver has been hit heavily by falling interest rates and a reduced savings income. To make matters worse, dividend income has also fallen substantially.

Heading to Arizona in spring is growing more popular. Water fun is the focus of Lake Havasu City no matter what time of year.

In 1854 a new railway service opened in London. It ran only one train a day and its only stop was a cemetery.

Thomas Hardy's father made him become an apprentice architect when he turned 18 in 1858, and at that stage there was little sign that he would become a prolific author.

This list ranks the World's top ten cities for Business.

An economical way to travel the world and a great vacation for families which provides a relaxing home environment plus the excitement of living in a foreign country.

The V&A will soon open Phase 2 of the Ceramic Galleries, the Ceramic Link Bridge, plus new galleries to re-house their impressive Medieval and Renaissance collections.

An unwed pregnant maid escapes to an apothecary beneath the watchful eye of St. Paul's Cathedral in Clare Clark's magnificent book, The Nature of Monsters.

Queen Elizabeth fully supported the theatre but the London politicians did not, so traditional venues were utilized by acting companies.

Danny Boyle's poignant and shocking 28 Days Later is a zombie movie you should see and this is why.

Spitalfields has been home to immigrants from refugee French Protestants in the 1600s to today's Bangladeshi community - each new nation leaving its mark on the place.

London celebrates the foiling of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot on November 5, and many other events, with fireworks. Here are just a few of the autumn's displays, many free.

Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars takes elements and characters from Alice in Wonderland and re-imagines them into a new story about the power of imagination.

Cheap tickets and low airfares are available on German low-cost and budget airlines flying to Dresden Airport (DRS) from German cities, the Mediterranean, and London (UK)

Looking for a low-cost transatlantic flight? Find budget fares on Zoom Airlines' new bargain flight between London and San Diego. There are cheap flights to New York too.

By using discount airlines rather than major carriers, North American travelers can get to Europe for less.

A school for poor children established in London in 1552 was more closely associated with the American colonies than any other English educational institution.

Explorer Publishing's Complete Residents' Guide to London is a good travel guide to England's capital, but is aimed at people relocating or living and working there.

Many travellers return from Copenhagen with burn marks on their wallets. Fortunately, there are still ways to help reduce the damage to your bank balance.

Photographer and film director David LaChapelle has been called a surrealist, shock artist, phony, and genius of the boorish celebrity world that Americans love to hate.

On June 26, 2007 a memorial plaque was placed on the wall of the Grey Coat School in Westminster, London, to commemorate the bicentennial of the death of David Thompson.

The university town of Cambridge, England, is known for beautiful historic colleges and other tourist attractions, but Eccentric Cambridge reveals its offbeat side