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007's car drives from Tokyo to London with help from Stanfords

Two adventurous British men have returned from a record-breaking epic charity drive from Tokyo to London in James Bond’s favourite car. The length of the Asian Highway and across Europe was driven by...

Creation or calculation? There is no conflict

There has been much discussion recently about the supposed conflict between those who advocate Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in explaining the creation of the universe and those who take a Biblical approach. Apparently...

England - The Thames Path

Our guide was very changeable, even capricious, taking us in one direction and then another. Our guide was the River Thames and led us from the docklands of east London to the leafy settlements of Buckinghamshire...

London, the New Jerusalem

Have you ever considered why some of London’s oldest and most important buildings are located so? Perhaps their setting is random. After all, why should there be any pattern to the location of buildings. Surely there is no master plan to the positioning of the city’s long-standing structures?

Now we are 150

2003 has been, it seems, the year of exploration and travel anniversaries: celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of Everest, the 100th of the first powered flight, the 80th...

Stanfords employee abseils down world's tallest hospital building

Our Stanfords branch supply officer, Martyn Bearfoot, completed an amazing feat against vertigo when he abseiled down the side of the world's tallest hospital building.

Stanfords helps decide London as ‘capital of the world’

Stanfords was used as a point of research in “The Independent Traveller” survey that resulted in London being named the capital of the world. Researchers used the criteria of the number of individual guidebooks that appeared on our shelves to...

Stanfords restores glory to flagship store

Stanfords is looking forward to the highlight of our 150th anniversary year: the November re-launch of our flagship store on Long Acre, Covent Garden, at the end of our £1 million-pound refurbishment...

Stanfords' maps to be used in Mongol Rally

Two police officers are making good use of Stanfords maps and atlases on one of the most infamous car races in the world – the Mongol Rally. Jonathan Stevens and Ben Farquett, both 29, came to our store to plan their intrepid journey with the help of our famed maps and atlases, and we quizzed them further on their plans...

The Geography Collective: The Accidental Geographer

Writing this first blog, I’m thinking about travelling… Last year, my secondary school in Redcar, north-east England, was demolished. A shiny, ultra modern replacement had already been built just across the road...

The John Simpson Interview

John Simpson, the renowned BBC world affairs editor,visited Stanfords in London to discuss his new book - Not Quite World’s End. John has graced our screens for 40 years in a career that has seen him reporting from the front line in various war-torn parts of the world...

The Simon Calder Interview - The Independent Traveller Editor

Simon Calder is one of the UK’s most well-known travellers, having edited The Independent Traveller for 13 years and presented several BBC travel shows. Known as 'the man who pays his way', Simon's travels have taken him from Crawley to Mount Kenya, and always in the 'cheap seat'...

There may be a riot goin’ on

It may not be May Day, but with the government – a Labour government understandably, even if not a socialist government – having nationalised much of the banking system, it’s entirely appropriate that...

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