London Walks Podcasts


Jack the Ripper Dossier, Part XII – Richard cross-examines the witnesses

Date post added: 6th December 2022

“eyewitness evidence is unreliable…such devastating mistakes by eyewitnesses are not rare”

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Today (December 6) in London History – something completely new in Europe

Date post added: 6th December 2022

“the ski champions were the headline acts”

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Today (December 5) in London History – Worst Fog Ever

Date post added: 5th December 2022

the factoids pile up like the stones that make up a cairn

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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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