London Walks Podcasts


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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Today (October 29) in London History – it’s the unseen that makes us see

Date post added: 28th October 2022

I would have wanted to ask, “what is wrong with you, man?”

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Today (October 28) in London History – Joining the EEC

Date post added: 27th October 2022

“the walk turned into a donnybrook”

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Today (October 27) in London History – those powdered eyebrows

Date post added: 26th October 2022

Like gorged, albino leeches, sunning themselves on the slopes of that swarthy, unshaven face.

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