On Londonâs Underside, Where Slavery Survives
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Even as the turns of its narrative and the contours of its characters are recognizable, very little about âEastern Promisesâ feels predictable or secondhand.
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Comment is free: Tristram Hunt: The chasm between rich and poor seen in London today resembles the Manchester that Engels described in the 1840s.
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The city became for her a social topography and a deep vein to be mined, both a real place and a symbolic landscape.
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A study of pre-historic animals reveals the crucial role of the English Channel in shaping  Britain's natural history.
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An explosion of cocktail quality and variety in Londonâs watering holes is making this city a locus for movers and shakers who shake and stir.
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When it opens as a luxury hotel next June, the former Charles Street Jail on Cambridge Street in Boston will have a name reflecting what its former occupants longed for: Liberty.
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As nations jockey for the North Pole, London starts a race for the South, just in case there are minerals to exploit
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A negative sensibility in London is generating a crackling positive charge in drama.
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The River Thames, which bisects the centre of London, is said by some to be among the world's cleaner urban waterways, but that claim to fame is undermined by frequent spillage from the capital's sewage system.
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AMSTERDAM -- Seventeenth-century masons built Amsterdam on a foundation of wooden poles planted in soggy, sandy ground, leaving behind a beautiful architectural museum -- but one with walls prone to sinking or crumbling without warning. So how do you dig a subway under it?
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Even as Britain's property market shows signs of struggling, one north London street is defying the gloom-mongers: houses on "billionaire's avenue" are still selling for record prices.
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Britain may not be renowned for its tropical temperatures but in the summer there is one guaranteed hot spot: the London underground.
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While parks and leafy lanes are getting cleaner, a survey published on Wednesday showed that London still holds the ignoble title as the dirtiest place to live in England.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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In a city where centuries-old meeting houses, churches and burial grounds seem to dot every corner, it's not easy to find buildings dating to the earliest years in Boston's 374-year history.
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By Christopher Hirst  With heaven on display at King's Cross and the heavens in Greenwich, London is pretty well stocked with the celestial at present. Let's start our extraterrestrial explorations on the Euston Road, not a milieu customarily thought of as Elysian.
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Mayme Agnew Claytonâs collection of artifacts devoted to the history of African-Americans is close to finding a home.