London Walks Podcasts


Today (December 19) in London History – A Christmas Carol

Date post added: 18th December 2022

“You will be glad to hear, I know, that my Carol is a prodigious success.”

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Today (December 18) in London History – Poet pummelled

Date post added: 17th December 2022

calling him rogue, and Son of a whore, they knockt him down and dangerously wounded him

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Today (December 17) in London History – the Harrods bomb

Date post added: 16th December 2022

he was the Irishman who created the dollar sign

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Today (December 16) in London History – Famous Actor Murdered!

Date post added: 16th December 2022

“as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods”

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Today (December 15) in London History – Cat o’ nine tails

Date post added: 14th December 2022

500 strokes was 4,500 strokes – a death sentence

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Today (December 14) in London History – sex, class, drugs, money, the cold war, race

Date post added: 13th December 2022

“the shameless slut”

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Today (December 13) in London History – London, December 13, 1476

Date post added: 12th December 2022

“it would be like a miner finding the Star of India Sapphire”

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Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XIII – “her name was placed on the ‘Register of Shame'”

Date post added: 12th December 2022

“the police became aware that Elizabeth had become guilty of ‘lecherous living”

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Today (December 12) in London History – Last Peer to be Tried by the House of Lords

Date post added: 12th December 2022

The 26th Baron de Clifford was the last peer to be tried in the House of Lords. The trial took place on December 12th, 1935. This Today in London History podcast tells the tale. TRANSCRIPT London calling. London Walks connecting. London Walks here with your daily London fix. Story time. History time. Here’s one for […]

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Today (December 11) in London History – Abdication

Date post added: 11th December 2022

“until now it has not been constitutionally possible for me to speak”

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