London

Bonfire Night

• Usman Ahmad

It was the one holiday in the year our parents let us be a part of.

Published on Dec 24, 2019 11:00AM EST

A Registered Reader at the British Library

• Grace Linden

At this desk, I wrote the bulk of my dissertation.

Published on Dec 1, 2019 11:00PM EST

Long Black Nigerian

• Yemisi Aribisala

It is a potion for willfulness that I am concocting.

Published on May 26, 2019 2:00PM EDT

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“Police Praise ‘Safe, Orderly’ Carnival”

• Amelia Granger

I rode the 381 home and sat in the priority seats just behind the box of free tabloids.

Published on Feb 20, 2019 9:00AM EST

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Ah, the coffee high

• Rachael Revesz

From that first sip, my world felt full of possibility.

Published on Feb 14, 2019 9:00AM EST

The London Underground Sketchbook

• Priya Kuriyan

Priya Kuriyan opens up her sketchbook from the Tube

Published on Nov 18, 2018 12:00PM EST

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London

• Charlotte Lydia Riley

I tell my students that they are lucky to be living through a period of such exciting democratic activity.

Published on Nov 6, 2018 12:00PM EST

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Someone told me I’d probably spent enough time in dusty old libraries in my life

• Suchandrika Chakrabarti

London was built on a floodplain, and that’ll probably be its downfall in the end.

Published on Nov 4, 2018 12:00PM EST

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Instinctively I feel self-conscious.

• Sanaa Qureshi

As though wearing colour was the mistake instead of just being a woman.

Published on Sep 30, 2018 12:00PM EDT