• Our Top 10 London Museum Objects
    Our Top 10 London Museum Objects
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    While all the Footprints of London Guides agree that they prefer to be talking about London history outside on the street, they love London museums too (many are guides at museums too). Here are 10 of the teams favourite objects in the collections of London Museums. 1 Prince Frederick’s Barge in the National Maritime Museum Neil…

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  • Caitlin Davies at the River Walks Festival
    Caitlin Davies at the River Walks Festival
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    More news about the River Walks Festival in April The Footprints of London River Walks Festival opens on April 16th with a special event. Author Caitlin Davies will talk about her new book “Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames” at one of London’s most atmospheric riverside pubs The Prospect of Whitby. Tickets cost…

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  • The real London of Wolf Hall
    The real London of Wolf Hall
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    Mark Rowland hunts out the real London locations behind the stories and characters in the latest TV Blockbuster, Wolf Hall. With the BBC in Tudor fever centred on Wolf Hall, their lavish 6-part adaption of Hilary Mantel’s historical novels Wolf Hall and Bringing up the Bodies, many people have taken to Google in an effort…

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  • Mr Selfridge
    Mr Selfridge
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    Mr Selfridge is back on our TV screen and Stephen is back doing his West End department stores walk: “Mr Selfridge and his competitors” – Sunday 8 February at 11.00 and Thursday 19 October at 14.00. If you watch the credits of the TV series Mr Selfridge carefully you will see that it is based…

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