“CLEARING AWAY THE MISERABLE PILES OF VICTORIANA AND EMPIRE”.

“CLEARING AWAY THE MISERABLE PILES OF VICTORIANA AND EMPIRE”. Maev Kennedy’s article has a reminder that British history is still fiercely contested. What is the real Britain? What is the real London? She quotes Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the reconstructed Globe: “I love the fact that we are excavating London, and slowly clearing away the miserable piles of Victoriana and Empire, and revealing the wild, anarchic and joyous London which is lurking beneath.”