London Walks Podcasts


A great American reporter describes the first day of the mass air attacks on London

Date post added: 7th September 2023

“the searchlights looked like long pillars supporting a black canopy”

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The anniversary of the first Jack the Ripper murder – the crime scene revisited

Date post added: 30th August 2023

“a slaughterhouse stood directly over the way from where Polly Nichols was slaughtered”

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Bank Holiday Monday Potpourri

Date post added: 28th August 2023

“he made a serious attempt to teach his pet poodle how to read”

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Washington DC burns down, Londoners read about a mermaid

Date post added: 24th August 2023

Let’s let DC burn, let’s go a mermaid-ing…

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What’s special about the Mrs Dalloway’s London Walk

Date post added: 22nd August 2023

the walk is a reconstruction of the London of 1923

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The start-the-week specials. And some London history.

Date post added: 21st August 2023

“that photograph of the Duke of York with his arm round a 17-year-old American girl”

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Rough, ready, riotous, raunchy upper class London – fasten your seat belts

Date post added: 19th August 2023

“he pissed on the populace – it provoked a riot”

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“Right in the centre and swim of things” – Early August in London

Date post added: 4th August 2023

I’ll take the English version every time.

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August 2, 1858 – the high tide of imperialism

Date post added: 2nd August 2023

“India is ours today…British bayonets beat bhang”

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August 1, 1834 – the Abolition of Slavery

Date post added: 1st August 2023

the friends of the abolition of slavery – some 130 of them – have gathered at the tavern to celebrate the event

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