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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…
Read moreMore 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…
Read moreMark 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…
Read moreMr 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…
Read moreJill Finch celebrates the birthday of poet John Donne Every Friday in St Paul’s cathedral as I take a group of visitors around Wren’s masterpiece I am always running late. But, as I let the group know that now is their chance to run for the hills before we get to the crypt and…
Read moreSue was recently interviewed by Pete Day on NuSound Radio 92FM about her East Ham and other East London walks. She talks about how she got into being a guide, her favourite places in East London and her forthcoming walk looking at Canning Town and the Royal Docks. You can hear the interview here Her next East…
Read moreRob Smith looks at how an advert for a Victorian pub tells us about drinking habits in 1888. If you are interested in food history come on Rob’s walk that looks at the Food History of Islington on February 26th If you’ve ever visited the Gaucho restaurant in Chancery Lane you may be curious as…
Read moreRhona Levene looks at the stories behind The March of the Guards to Finchley, which you can see in the Foundling Museum. In April Rhona will be leading some of the walks in the Footprints of London River Walks Festival – keep a look out for more details on http://footprintsoflondon.com/walks The stories behind Hogarth’s THE MARCH OF…
Read moreTwo Footprints of London Guides helped out on the BBC series Great British Railway Journeys, presented by Michael Portillo. The BBC approached Sean Patterson to appear in the programme talking about Charles Booth’s poverty map of Deptford. Michael Portillo chose Deptford as this was the location of London’s first proper passenger railway, but beneath the viaducts people lived…
Read moreContinuing our series on the London legacy of Kings and Queens. This time Richard I otherwise known as Richard The Lionheart. If you’ve been enjoying this series you’ll like Jack Yeomanson’s new walk about the Plantagenets Richard the Lionheart or Richard Coeur De Lion is one of the most well known of medieval kings but as a supporter…
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