London Walks Podcasts


Today (November 7) in London History – the last man hanged at Tyburn

Date post added: 6th November 2022

the execution was botched

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Today (November 6) in London History – the aviary on Blackfriars Bridge

Date post added: 5th November 2022

Those birds – and how they are positioned – crystallise the matter for us.

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Today (November 5) in London History – Remember, remember the Guy

Date post added: 5th November 2022

best of all, Guy spoke French

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Today (November 4) in London History – the Fortnum & Mason clock

Date post added: 3rd November 2022

a British commercial/shop version of a giant Swiss cuckoo clock

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Today (November 3) in London History – the royal wedding nobody knows

Date post added: 2nd November 2022

“monarchy maps 300 years ago are almost solidly red. Kings everywhere…”

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Today (November 2) in London History – the most important moment in the 20th century

Date post added: 2nd November 2022

“Of the many initiatives of the British government in the First World War, it cast the longest shadow.”

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Jack the Ripper, Part VII – “a vampire, a werewolf or a ghost”

Date post added: 1st November 2022

“whoever the killer was he had to avoid being noticed by three different police officers”

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Today (November 1) in London History – what’s in a name?

Date post added: 1st November 2022

Santiago – the slayer of the Moors

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Today (October 31) in London History – “we never closed”

Date post added: 31st October 2022

The statues all shrieked and ran for their lives.

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Today (October 30) in London History – the Music Hall Girl, the German Baron, Sex and Death

Date post added: 29th October 2022

She sees the stockinged foot of a man protruding from behind an upright piano.

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