On 5 June 1698, John Evelyn went down to Deptford to look at what was left of his house. He was seventy-seven years old. He had lived at Sayes Court for forty years, laid out its garden himself, and written some of the most influential books in England there. For the previous three months the…
On 28 December 1598, in the dead middle of the Christmas holidays, about a dozen men walked into a yard in Shoreditch with a master carpenter and began taking a building to pieces. They worked fast. The landlord was away in the country, which was the point. What they were dismantling was The Theatre, the…
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