by Olivia Blackman | Jun 18, 2026 | Culture, News
The Chelsea History Festival will return this autumn with a programme of around 100 events, bringing world-renowned historians, broadcasters, performers and storytellers to venues across Chelsea. Running from 1 to 4 October 2026, the eighth edition of the festival...
by John Cookson | Jun 15, 2026 | Culture, News
Three men who faced bullets, bombs and terrorists — and lived to tell the tale — gathered in Chelsea as the National Army Museum celebrated becoming the new home of a world-famous collection of Victoria and George Crosses. Reporter John Cookson joined an audience...
by Rob McGibbon | Jun 10, 2026 | Culture
The Citizen was all set to write an erudite, lyrical introduction to fully encapsulate the joy of High Society. It was even going to include an oh-so-clever play on words, but then Alan Carr’s inimitable, fog horn voice shouted down every sentence that stumbled...
by Olivia Blackman | May 17, 2026 | Culture, News
After eight long years in the dark, the Curzon is coming back to the King’s Road – with grand plans to be a 21st century creative hub, as well as a state of the art cinema. The new venue – to be known simply as Curzon Chelsea – will be inside the...
by John Cookson | Jan 27, 2026 | Culture, News
Less than 24 hours after flames tore through the legendary Kensington Roof Gardens, the club’s bosses have vowed it will reopen this week. A dramatic late-night inferno sparked a major emergency response as 80 firefighters in 12 engines raced to Kensington High...
by Citizen Reporter | Jan 19, 2026 | Culture
The Last Bantam is a one-hour, one-man play that reveals the incredible and forgotten story of the ‘Bantam’ soldiers – 30,000 men between 5ft-5ft 3” who signed up to fight in the Great War. It is told through the eyes of Patrick Michael Wolfe, a Dubliner who...
