A Tribute to London’s Speakers’ Corner

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  10.16.06 | 7:35 AM ET

In Sunday’s Washington Post, Mary Jordon has a terrific feature on Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner—one of the inspirations for World Hum’s feature of the same name. “Once a place where the condemned were hanged—and perhaps, some say, because they were given one last chance to say a few words—the northeast corner of Hyde Park has since the late 19th century been sacred ground for free speech,” she writes. “There are other noteworthy patches in the 350-acre park—the Nanny’s Lawn, the Lovers’ Walk—but it is only here near Marble Arch where the unsung, along with legends from Winston Churchill to Karl Marx, have come to have their say.”

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2 Comments for A Tribute to London’s Speakers’ Corner

Jerry Haines 10.16.06 | 9:46 AM ET

This is the Post’s “Time Zones” feature, which I have come to regard as presenting some of today’s best “travel” writing, even though it appears in the international news portion of Section A.  It doesn’t seem to have a regular schedule, but it offers casual little pieces written by reporters in the Post’s foreign service.  It seems like a collection of “something I noticed on my day off” columns.  Being good reporters, they have a good collective eye for revealing detail.

Thanks for noticing it.

Michael Yessis 10.16.06 | 9:13 PM ET

Thanks for pointing this out, Jerry. I’ll keep my eye out for it in the future.

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