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  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Go with the London flow: six top walks along the Thames

    To explore the capital’s biggest liquid asset on foot is an adventure in architecture, culture and nature

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    Visual Arts
    The Illuminated River shines a light on London’s shifting currents

    A new project to light up Thames bridges is characteristic of changes that are transforming the city

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Urban sanctuary: the quiet delights of east London’s thriving waterlands

    Once neglected, the River Lea and Walthamstow Marshes are today inhabited by a thrilling array of fauna, flora . . .  and fascinating characters

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Fowl play: five water birds to spot in London this winter  

    ‘Ballerina’ birds, exotic geese with attitude and the blue flash of a kingfisher — the FT’s in-house avian expert reveals where to look for them in the capital

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Portrait of a park: Green Park — an architectural and social history of London

    The elegant beauty of this much-loved space is complemented by its surrounding buildings with their many stories of the capital, from the 18th century to the present day

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    London: where to drink cocktails outdoors this winter

    Socialise over warming tipples and substantial sustenance at these nine al fresco venues

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
    Life during lockdown: FT readers’ London tips

    The fishmongers, bakers, grocers, vintners and more who’ve helped make it bearable, as recommended by you

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    The best of London: at home

    While staying in is the new going out, this series from FT Globetrotter will bring you the capital’s top offerings available on your doorstep

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
    ‘Glimmers of good living’: the FT’s London lockdown discoveries

    From ordering epicurean adventures to swimming in the Thames — via collecting cool jumpsuits — here’s how we got through it first time around

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  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Damien Hirst at Newport Street Gallery: glimmers of hope amid death and decay

    The British artist puts on show of his own early work at his London gallery — with distinct contemporary echoes

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    ReviewDesign
    Margaret Calvert at the Design Museum: signs in tune with their times

    A new London show celebrates the influential creator of familiar symbols

  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
    Visual Arts
    Frieze Sculpture Park opens its doors to nature

    An upbeat free-to-wander exhibition combines playfulness with serious concerns of contemporary realities and metaphysics

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    Visual Arts
    New on show: Sin at the National Gallery

    Bronzino’s incestuous ‘Allegory with Venus and Cupid’ is the star of a London show exploring transgression in art history

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    What to see at the London Design Festival

    The city’s annual celebration of creativity is a more intimate, but no less innovative, affair

  • Sunday, 6 September, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterNeighbourhood walks
    Neighbourhood walks: time travelling in St Albans

    A stroll around Hertfordshire’s cathedral city traverses two millennia, from Roman ruins and a site of Christian martyrdom to a 1930s cinema — via what is reputedly Britain’s oldest pub

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    10 great walks – all over the world
    London walks: gardens and green therapy in Dulwich and East Dulwich

    From pretty Dulwich Village, to the Picture Gallery and the park, this rural corner of south-east London is perfect for a summer stroll

  • Sunday, 2 August, 2020
    Visual Arts
    Royal Academy’s Gauguin and the Impressionists — a shock of beauty in troubled times

    Works from the Ordrupgaard Collection comprise London’s first major opening of a new show since lockdown

  • Sunday, 19 July, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterNeighbourhood walks
    London walks: a rock tour of Camden and Kentish Town

    From the gig where Coldplay were first spotted, to the antics of Madness, via the drinking dens of Oasis and Amy Winehouse, these North London streets have some serious tales to tell

  • Sunday, 12 July, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterNeighbourhood walks
    London walks: Stoke Newington, the cool village where hipsters go to grow up

    A stroll around a gentrified corner of North London that takes in cafés, green space and one of the capital’s great Victorian cemeteries

  • Sunday, 28 June, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    The best gourmet picnics for London parks

    Grab a rug and head to your local green space. We’ve tracked down some of the city’s finest, pre-packaged al fresco feasts

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    Pet therapy – why animals have become our mental-health heroes
    Claer Barrett’s guide to urban birding in London

    Even the concrete jungle contains some surprisingly exotic feathered inhabitants. Here is our resident birder’s guide

  • Monday, 22 June, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    Neighbourhood walks

    With our movements more restricted, our focus has sharpened on the neighbourhoods we live in. Here FT writers explore their local area up close

  • Monday, 15 June, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    My London: the beauty of Brompton Cemetery

    Where else to muse on lockdown but one of the city’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ graveyards? Or simply to watch the flowering of spring

  • Sunday, 14 June, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterNeighbourhood walks
    London walks: a ‘blue plaque safari’ in the heart of town

    The pubs, shops and galleries may still be closed, but a stroll around Baker Street and beyond offers diverting dips into British history

  • Sunday, 7 June, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterNeighbourhood walks
    London walks: canal boats, boozers and traders in Hackney and Shoreditch

    In the east of the locked-down city, life continues to be lived defiantly on the streets

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