Likeable London links

Clickable banners for London-​​related websites and blogs you may find useful, inter­esting or plain delightful

London Historians blog

Updated almost every day, the London Historians blog should satisfy even the most voracious appetite for musings and miscellania about London

the people, places and objects that make London magical

A lovely blog-​​style website dedicated to celeb­rating and supporting London’s market culture

Locating London's Past

This new website allows you to search digital resources relating to early modern and 18th-​​century London, and to map the results on to John Rocque’s 1746 map – but it’s not for the techno­lo­gically faint-​​hearted

London footprints

An excellent site about exploring London on foot

London Shh

A collection of small historic houses that tell the stories of fascinating and famous former residents

Diamond Geezer

Life viewed from london E3”. Probably London’s best individually written blog

Londonist

News, information, previews, reviews, opinion and more

Time Out

The category killer in the what’s on in London market

Visit London

You might not guess it from their minimalist masthead, but this is Visit London, the offical website for London tourism

Transport for London

Almost everything you need to know about travelling in London, with some useful journey planning tools

London Town

Good commercial site for making arrangements for your visit – even longstanding Londoners can benefit from the expertise and information arrayed here

London 43: the alternative London city guide

A pleasing and informative site, although its strapline could be misleading at first glance: it’s an alternative to other London guides, rather than a guide to alternative London

London Evening Standard

London’s weekday newspaper – much improved under its new ownership

The Telegraph: London travel

Regardless of your opinion of the newspaper itself, you’ll be impressed by the London section of the Telegraph’s travel guide

London Daily Photo

A London photo every day. Some pictures will be there for their own sake, some because they are places you may like to see, all because they are part of what makes London what it is”

London government

City Hall’s reader-​​friendly site about almost every aspect of life in London, going far beyond what you might expect from the mayor and the London Assembly

City Ultima

Subject guides on everything London, by London people”

London's most right-on-guide

A kind of database, kind of review site, used for documenting inter­esting places in London”. It’s collab­orative and commercial-​​free

This is Local London

An aggregate site for news from 40 of London’s local papers

London Resilience

Planning and preparing for emergencies in London

Travels around London

A blog about exploring London and beyond (sometimes well beyond, all over England)

London Shop Fronts

More than 1000 no-​​frills photos of charac­terful London shops, cafés, etc.

A site dedicated to songs about London. As simple as that. The only rules are that the songs must be brilliant and that the blindingly obvious numbers are excluded. The songs may be explicitly about London or obliquely about the city in some way. This is a project that was delib­erately designed to last for one year. It will remain live for people to explore.”

From the Upper Deck

A marvellous photoblog consisting entirely of views from upstairs on London buses

 
The lovely bones
A recent addition to the lesser-​​​​​​​​known attractions in The Guide – a one-​​​​room museum of zoological specimens
London gets cable
The capital's cross-river cable car connection will touch down beside Victoria Dock this summer
London: the book
Brewer’s Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable: the legends, lore, locals, localities and lingo of London
Consider a Kindle
View the Kindle Keyboard 3G, with built-in wi-fi and free 3G wireless, at amazon.co.uk

 

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