The London Walks podcast for November 6, 2026
A thousand cartloads of human bones. Shakespeare’s terrifying vision of a charnel house. And the extraordinary fate of London’s dead beneath three windmills. Step into the eerie, almost forgotten world of medieval London’s houses of bones.
Where did London put its dead when the graveyards were full? A journey into a lost world of bones, burial, belief and some of the strangest chapters in the city’s history.