London Walks Podcasts


The Riots

Date post added: 5th August 2024

“For other ruffians would shark on you”

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Worst since the Black Death

Date post added: 4th August 2024

The Great Famine in Ireland in 1845 was the greatest loss of life anywhere in Europe since the Black Death

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“The lamps are going out all over Europe”

Date post added: 3rd August 2024

“the lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”

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Architecture, morbid obesity & this weekend’s specials

Date post added: 2nd August 2024

the most wretched, god-awful entrance in the annals of the British crown

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More purrfection from Ann – latest cat news

Date post added: 1st August 2024

“how hard is it to train a cat to act, to do what you want it to not what it wants to do”

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The day nobody dies, Soho deli, Queen Anne & Chinese foot-binding unbound

Date post added: 31st July 2024

“the beloved, eccentric Kensington auntie who slew a Chinese dragon”

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Keir Starmer’s hood, cagmag & the World Cup

Date post added: 30th July 2024

Memories, they make us rich

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Kew Gardens, prison, theatricality, slavery

Date post added: 29th July 2024

he’s a dying man

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Sticking it to Johnny Frenchman, Henry VIII, Beatrix Potter, Frankenstein & where “she” lived and died

Date post added: 28th July 2024

“she died on July 28th, 1945”

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Feminist Jack the Ripper Walk

Date post added: 27th July 2024

“Let’s not make them bit part players – expendable pawns – barely glimpsed through the red mist of that psychopath”

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