Discover more about the Royal Parks
Read, watch or listen to delve deeper into what makes the Royal Parks so unique.
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ReadShrine of Youth: The Peter Pan Statue, Kensington Gardens
The Royal Parks are bursting with literary history. Perhaps the most famous fictional resident of the parks is Peter Pan – the boy who wouldn’t grow up.
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ReadThe Camouflage School at Kensington Gardens
Following the start of the First World War, a school was founded in Kensington Gardens to develop camouflage techniques and patterns.
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ReadThe Royal Parks in Literature
From Samuel Pepys to J.M. Barrie, discover the classic authors whose connections to London’s Royal Parks inspired and featured in their stories
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ReadGhosts of the Royal Parks
Tales from the archives of a few of the ghosts people have reported seeing in London's Royal Parks.
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ReadRemembering Ignatius Sancho
Ignatius Sancho was a writer, composer and abolitionist who lived on the edge of Greenwich Park, and became the first black person to vote in Britain.
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ReadCelebrating Buy British Day at the Royal Parks Shop
At the Royal Parks Shop, over half of the products we stock are British-made and in October we're celebrating our fantastic British suppliers.
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ListenBirding in Hyde Park
Join our own Charlie Linton as he takes a walk in London’s Hyde Park with one of the UK’s most prominent young birdwatchers, Dr Mya-Rose Craig.
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ReadDiscover the dung beetles of Bushy Park
Discover the life of Dung Beetles in Bushy Park. Learn how to join the Dung Beetle Discovery Project at the Royal Parks.
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ReadUnearthing an air raid shelter in Greenwich Park
As part of our Greenwich Park Revealed project to restore and protect the park we delivered a community dig to find out more about a lost air raid shelter.
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