Dean Martin’s shoe size: The City of London’s curious American connections

It can’t have escaped many people’s notice that it’s 250 years since our colonial cousins got a bit irate over the cost of tea and declared their independence from the mother country. To mark the semiquincentennial, a small exhibition in the City of London is showing off the, at times, rather surprising relationship between the City and the newly independent Thirteen Colonies.Some of the relationships that cross the Atlantic are not surprising, as after all, many American settl