Qualla: Hampstead https://qualla.com/hampstead en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Hampstead https://qualla.com/hampstead Hampstead: Introduction https://qualla.com/hampstead/ In 1992, McDonald's opened a branch in Hampstead after more than a decade of legal battles with local residents who did not want it there. The company won in court. McDonald's agreed to redesign its shopfront to reduce the conspicuousness of its facade and logo — an unprecedented concession. The branch closed in November 2013. The episode captures something essential about Hampstead: a place that has sheltered radicals, aristocrats, and exiles in roughly equal measure, that prizes its village character above almost everything, and that will litigate on behalf of that character until the point is made.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hampstead-wp/gcpv-hampstead-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hampstead: Anglo-Saxon Homestead https://qualla.com/hampstead/ The name Hampstead comes from the Anglo-Saxon words ham and stede — a cognate of the modern English word "homestead." The settlement appears in a grant by King Ethelred the Unready to the monastery of St Peter's at Westminster in 986 AD, and in the Domesday Book of 1086. Mesolith...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hampstead-wp/gcpv-hampstead-anglo-saxon-homestead.mp3 0:06 2 full Hampstead: Who Has Lived Here https://qualla.com/hampstead/ Hampstead has been home to more Prime Ministers, and contains more millionaires within its boundaries, than any other area of the United Kingdom, according to figures from 2004. The roster of notable residents is difficult to summarize. Sigmund Freud arrived in 1938, fleeing the ...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hampstead-wp/gcpv-hampstead-who-has-lived-here.mp3 0:06 3 full Hampstead: Hampstead Liberalism https://qualla.com/hampstead/ The area has given its name to a specific political type: the "Hampstead Liberal," wealthy, educated, progressive in principle, comfortable in practice. The term was satirised in the 1960s by the Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Simple, who invented Lady Dutt-Pauker — an aristocra...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/hampstead-wp/gcpv-hampstead-hampstead-liberalism.mp3 0:06 4 full Hampstead: The Heath and the Village https://qualla.com/hampstead/ Hampstead's relationship with its heath — the 320-hectare ancient parkland that separates it from Highgate — is intimate and defining. The view from Parliament Hill, legally protected, takes in St Paul's Cathedral, Canary Wharf, and the full London skyline. Three open-air swimmin...

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