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Bloomsbury Creepy Crawlies – the Gilded Vectors of Disease

“The Mystery Deepens”

Today’s Kensington Walk – How We Neutralise the Cold Weather

“A pearl through burnt glass”

RIP the man who gave us the West End of London

“No words can express the secret agony of my soul”

“There is nothing about London that is not curious”

Interview with legendary London Walks guide, actor Shaughan Seymour

The Dalston Outrage

Sir Henry Tate – In Memoriam

Dan Parry on the Golden Age of Piracy 

A Foodies Walks Historical Feast

A new Christmas walk & a weird coincidence

The U-boat moored alongside the House of Commons

Richard Walker guiding his high-end, VIP Jack the Ripper Tour

Sam talking about his gem of a new walk

Death of a hate figure

Charles Darwin and Jack the Ripper

Parliamentary Cat of the Year and other Cat Tails from Ann

Shaughan’s Witty Spoof at the London Walks Guides’ Party

Parakeets perching on the heads of our Kensington walkers

The Boss guides St Paul’s

London on November 11, 1918

Meet the Mayor

“What inexhaustible food for speculation the streets of London afford”

In the Presence of Guiding Greatness…

“Where are the naughty people buried?”

Trailer for Ann’s William Morris Walk

Let’s meet a stalwart London Walker: Harvard U. Professor Tom U.

The Killer Clock

Ripperologist Richard Walker investigates – the shawl, DNA evidence, eye-witness evidence

My favourite interview (because I learned so much) – meet our new guide, Dr Ann

Halloween and Guy Fawkes

“We always have our door open, even when it’s freezing”

Why was Sir Walter Raleigh Beheaded? And the Gatehouse that’s there today.

“Behold the head of a traitor”

“The sound of Big Ben was my first memory in life”

O jogo bonito

Happy Birthday Private Eye

The glamour of evil

Local London, Londoners’ London

Pinnacles begirt with lavatory seats like ill-fitting collars

“The term psychopath caught on in 1888”

This morning’s Sunday Times – they’re running a story on Hampstead Spies Guide Stewart Purvis’s new book

The Cheddar Man of Naked Boy Court

“Trevor Nunn and I shared some kisses behind the dustbins”

The Lion in the Church

Picasso, Wodehouse, the Head Hunters of Borneo

“What kind of a world was it that gave us this monster?”

Larger than life – our most entertaining guide

Meet Your Guide – “The World’s Greatest Guide”

All the Latest Cat News – Advancer for Ann’s Cat Tails Walk

London 1902-1916 – Seebed of the Russian Revolution

Meet your guide – Geologist Ruth

Dark breaks to dawn

Let’s do some stories

Knight President of the Knights of the Round Table

Weekend Specials – A Festival of Walks

Trafalgar Square Redux 15 – London “Catacombs”

Cat tales – feline goings on latest

Jon Klein – English guitarist, artist & filmmaker

The world’s worst gambler

Information-rich guiding

“Do you want to come in?”

Death pledge, Bob Dylan & Lèse-majesté

Famous actor stabbed to death

Meet some London Walkers

The oldest creature on earth, Queen Elizabeth’s Jewish ancestry and London place names

St Giles-in-the-Fields (topped up with coffee, mortgage, leprosy, gallows & the Plague)

The tsunami, Queen Elizabeth II and the Prophet Mohammad & the most colourful buildings in London

Larry Bridges

Outernet London

Meet your guide: here’s Molly

A Walk on the Beguiled Side

Meeting Kamala

Indiana Jones, the nastiest cat of all & wealthy west London

Giant

London

New walk – welcome to the feast

Americans in London (and beavers and the Great Fire)

Rake, Bigamist, Flitter-mouse & a Serving of Banksy

A saint, six kings & what makes the English tick

London was a barnyard

“Swarms of knaves on the lookout for the unwary”

Death of a courtier, eerie squeak & Rene Zellweger

Female sexuality, Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare & Infinite Accumulation

10 – Perfect score for our new walk

Behind the scenes at London Walks – meet Niamh

William Morris & Cats

The Riots

Worst since the Black Death

“The lamps are going out all over Europe”

Architecture, morbid obesity & this weekend’s specials

More purrfection from Ann – latest cat news

The day nobody dies, Soho deli, Queen Anne & Chinese foot-binding unbound

Keir Starmer’s hood, cagmag & the World Cup

Kew Gardens, prison, theatricality, slavery

Sticking it to Johnny Frenchman, Henry VIII, Beatrix Potter, Frankenstein & where ‘she’ lived and died

Feminist Jack the Ripper Walk

I spy with my little eye

Birthday special – Dickens’ white-hot genius

Royal Gossip, etc.

London Plane Trees, Pubs & Legless Birds

John Lennon, the Pillory, Small is Beautiful

The Latest Cat News in 2024

Pirates, Press Gangs & Execution Dock (and for good measure, the moon)

Waterloo. And that is what’s called patriotism? Voting over here. Loos in 1851.

Virginia Woolf, weird death & behind the scenes at London Walks

Wimbledon, Rock Stars, 999 and Bicycling to Australia

Tabloid truth, 007 & ‘soft power’, the Goddess & St Paul’s

Billionaires’ Row, John Lennon’s Killer, St Paul’s, Wellington’s Tomb

Hidden in Plain Sight in St Paul’s – Some Great Outtakes


Billionaires’ Row

The numbers tell the tale

Terminating with extreme prejudice in Victorian times

William III, James II and ‘the curse and pest of Europe’


David Tucker

The doyen of London walking tour guides, David is the Seigneur of this favoured realm (London Walks). A literary historian and retreaded academic (London University Ph.D. on Dickens) and former television news editor, he broods over words, breeds enthusiasms and is "unmanageable." For good measure, he's a balterer, a logophile and a lifelong thanatophobe.

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