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• Blitz firefighters’ wartime paintings to go on display in London churches

  11-09-2023 17:49
  
  Initiative marks 300 years since death of Christopher Wren, many of whose churches were bombed in second world warIt became known as the second great fire of London, the worst night of the blitz in the British capital during the second world war.On the night of 29-30 December 1940, more than 100,000 bombs were dropped on London, causing widespread fires and destroying many buildings including 13 of Sir Christopher Wren’s churches. Continue reading...
  
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• Megacities in the desert: the human cost of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s bold new projects | Nesrine Malik

  11-09-2023 07:00
  
  In their rush to claim the future and concrete over the past, these vast rebrands are demolishing people’s homes and their heritageSpread over an area almost 7km (4 miles) long, Cairo’s Necropolis is a sprawling district of tombs, mausoleums, mosques and courtyards. Also known as the City of the Dead, it is very much alive with memories of those buried there, with the different eras of history that it traces, and with the real families who live in it and have done so, in some instanc
  
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