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Tbilisi titbits: the Georgian dumpling from the hills (The Guardian and online)

Sweet History: the history of dates (Citizen K Arabia)

Spill the beans: Making the perfect coffee (Food & Travel Arabia and online)

Review: Enigma (What’s On)

Gin pairings (Dubai Voyager)

Review: Miss Lily’s (What’s On and online)

Veggie Guide to Dubai (What’s On)

Comment: Fatherly feasts (Spinneys Food)

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My name's Louise, I'm a multimedia journalist and writer, based between Dorset and London in the UK.

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Today's history fact in the old Instagram Stories is about this (great) guy, Peter the Great, and why he would have been livid with ➡️ this guy! And not only because he has a pretentious twirly 'tash. Check it out if you fancy! . . . #Historyfact #Russianhistory #peterthegreat

Today's history fact in my Instagram Stories is about this smouldering chap Lord Byron and ➡️ this chap - well, not that specific hairy chap, but one like him. Check it out if you like 19th-century animal facts. And, really, who doesn't!? 🐻 🎨 The National Portrait Gallery. @nationalportraitgallery . . . #HistoryFacts #LordByron #Bears

My latest Instagram story history (fun) fact is all about these chaps: the Habsburgs! *Habsburg klaxon goes off*. I'll be honest, I don't know as much as I should about this mammoth historic royal family, but I do know one great factoid and that's all I need (apparently). Check it out... if you fancy it. Featured: Charles II of Spain and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. . . . #Historyfact #day3 #habsburgs

Prepare yourself for the most boring and tenuously-beer-related post ever! Any Victorian philanthropist fans out there? Good! Because this building was one of the first built by the Guinness Trust - a charitable trust launched in 1890 by Sir Edward Cecil Guinness of Irish stout fame! He also happened to be one of the richest men in Ireland and donated a *lot* of money to building what was essentially the earliest council housing in London and Dublin. This one on Columbia Road was his first in East London and still looms as a reminder to all history nerds of the area's less-trendy Victorian history. Now, who wants a pint? 🍺 . . . #Historynerd #londonhistory #victorianhistory

Now a (crazy) busy hipster-tastic flower market for plant lovers and determined Instagrammers, Columbia Road Flower Market started life as a general Saturday market in a working-class area of Victorian London. It was eventually pushed to the Sunday to accommodate the growing Jewish population and, as Victorian Londoners were BIG on gardening, it quickly became the flower fest you see today! It was really interesting exploring such a historic corner of London (even if it did mean battling the plant-wielding crowds...). 🌱🌻🤓 . . . #History #LondonHistory #ColumbiaRoad

Team History Bombs takes Pancake Day very seriously. 🚀💣🍳 . . . #pancakeday #shrovetuesday

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