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Game of Thrones: fantasy television | Television & radio | guardian.co.uk

My new favourite TV series, after Mad Men.

This is the sort of show where gruff men in wolf cloaks mutter ominously that “winter is coming”, exiled princelings bitch about their lost birthright and there is much discussion of prophecies of old. Yet even if that kind of thing usually makes you run screaming to the nearest crime drama, Game of Thrones is worth sticking with.

Don’t be put off by the huge number of people in the cast, just sit back and enjoy the clever way in the tale unfolds. Essentially the story of Ned Stark (Bean) and his fateful decision to help his old friend Robert Baratheon rule, Game of Thrones is also about the evil that men do in the name of power, the lengths that people will go to hold on to a throne and the corruption that ultimately corrodes a kingdom.

Looking forward to reading the books as well. On the London Underground, they’ve become a new staple amongst the frazzled and harried commuter class.

Pop culture time capsule found in Notting Hill Tube Station: Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 - 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway and will be safe. This is a poster advertising the still popular Ideal Home Exhibition, sponsored by the Daily Mail, that was held at Olympia in March of that year. We will be leaving these intact - and please do not pester the station staff as the posters are wholly inaccessible - which is why they’ve probably survived 50 odd years! Learn More

Pop culture time capsule found in Notting Hill Tube Station:

Work at the station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters in non-public areas and that date from c1956 - 1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators. These are in an old lift passageway and will be safe.

This is a poster advertising the still popular Ideal Home Exhibition, sponsored by the Daily Mail, that was held at Olympia in March of that year.

We will be leaving these intact - and please do not pester the station staff as the posters are wholly inaccessible - which is why they’ve probably survived 50 odd years!

Learn More

Ten of the greatest maps that changed the world | Mail Online

The head of the map collections department at the British Library shares ten maps that changed the world.

8) LONDON TUBE MAP, 1933. Dismissed as too ‘revolutionary’ when it was first submitted in 1931, Harry Beck’s Underground map solved the problem of how to represent clearly and elegantly a dense, complex interweaving of train lines. Placing the stations at similar intervals regardless of their true locations amplifies the area of central London, increasing its clarity, while the straight lines and interchange symbols confer a simplicity and order on the network. A cartographic icon.

Daily Mail