Sites of interest: United Kingdom

London

  • The Freud Museum – Sigmund and Anna Freud’s home and museum
  • Charles Darwin’s Home – Down House (approx. 2 hours from London by train and city bus)
  • London Museum
    • skulls with evidence of trephination
    • burial customs
    • short film on plague in London
    • the London fire
    • jail cell from 18th century
    • suffragettes
    • medieval London – (includes household items, religious items, etc.)
  • British Museum
  • British Library
    • Magna Carta
    • original letters by Darwin, Newton, and others
    • musical scores
    • Guttenberg Bible and other religious texts
  • Stonehenge (about 2 hours away by bus)
  • Leake Street (pedestrian tunnel with graffiti)
  • Geffrye Museum (period rooms)
  • Ragged School Museum (reconstructions of education establishments of 1800s)
  • Old Operating Theatre (used before anesthetics)
  • Roman Amphitheater

Edinburgh

  • Statue of David Hume
  • David Hume’s Mausoleum
  • Calton Hill
  • National Museum of Scotland (science, technology, culture)

More to come!