London Walks Podcasts


Today (December 4) in London History – A Great Newspaper is Born

Date post added: 3rd December 2022

“flocks of chicken prostitutes which he observed before Somerset House, and which he mistook for the pupils of a large boarding school”

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Today (December 3) in London History – The Picture Ball

Date post added: 3rd December 2022

The thing about the past is you can see into the future.

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Today (December 2) in London History – RADA

Date post added: 1st December 2022

we saw Kenneth Branagh before he became Kenneth Branagh

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Today (December 1) in London History – Stars & Stripes Day in London

Date post added: 30th November 2022

“I suppose you’ve come over here to get one of our husbands.”

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Today (November 30) in London History – the Crystal Palace Conflagration

Date post added: 29th November 2022

the blaze was visible from ten counties

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Today (November 29) in London History – Florence Nightingale

Date post added: 29th November 2022

Florence Nightingale and her team were nursing four miles of patients. 

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Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XI – Annie Chapman, the crime scene

Date post added: 28th November 2022

“the Met did a psychological profile of Jack the Ripper”

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Today (November 28) in London History – the greatest London poem

Date post added: 27th November 2022

“the hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down Palace walls” 

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Today (November 27) in London History – Hanged for a Misdemeanour

Date post added: 27th November 2022

The Jury said: Guilty. The Judge said: Death. By hanging.

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Today (November 26) in London History – Gotcha!

Date post added: 26th November 2022

“he was principally distinguished for mischief, deceitfulness, and a lack of serious application”

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