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Jen’s Pedler’s Mayfair’s Bright Young Things walk on Saturday 28th October is a literary romp around the area telling the stories of the “Bright Young Things” who inhabited the area in the 1920s. Part of the Footprints of London Literary Festival, you can find booking details on Jen’s walks page, meanwhile she reveals the origins…
Read moreJen’s Pedler’s walk on Thursday 26th October Sherlock Holmes – the Return, part of the Footprints of London Literary Festival, recreates the route Holmes and Watson may have taken and attempts to solve two mysteries along the way: who murdered the Honourable Ronald Adair and where exactly was 221b Baker St? Booking details are on…
Read moreWith our Literary Footprints Festival 2017 in full swing, Alan Fortune recounts the tale of a key literary landmark in Soho. Alan will be running his Literary Soho walk on 15th and 24th October, booking details are on his walks page. On the south side of Old Compton Street in the area known as Soho’s…
Read moreContinuing our series of Literary Footprints 2017 posts, Mark Rowland delves into the murky world of night walking. Mark will be running his Dickens After Dark walk on the evenings of Tuesday 10th and Thursday 19th October following the paths of Charles Dickens’ night walks, booking details are on his walks page. “If you do…
Read moreAs part of Literary Footprints 2017, on Wednesday 11th October Jen Pedler will be revealing The Nether World of George Gissing’s Clerkenwell. Booking details are on her walks page, meanwhile Jen has given us a little taster of what to expect. Walk the streets of Clerkenwell today with a copy of George Gissing’s 1889 novel…
Read moreDavid Charnick explores how Charles Dickens exploited the peculiarities of office space provision in Victorian London to emphasise Ebenezer Scrooge’s sense of loneliness and isolation. David will be running his Dickens of a City walk as part of Literary Footprints 2017, dates and booking details on his walks page. It was with great astonishment, and…
Read moreDave Charnick recalls how a royal intervention helped stem the spread of deadly disease in Victorian Bethnal Green. You can hear more stories from this most fascinating of London locales on Dave’s walk The Battle for Bethnal Green this Saturday (17th June) at 2.30 pm. Booking details are here. On Pollard Row in Bethnal Green…
Read moreNearly three years ago we exhorted our dear readers and followers to support a kickstarter project to produce a film that promised a new and unique view of the city we all know and love. We were delighted when the project hit its funding target, and after nearly three years of filming, editing, and composing…
Read moreAs part of our Mandate to Rule series of political-themed walks in the lead-up to polling day, Dave Charnick’s walk The Price of Conscience on Thursday 8th June will tackle the thorny issue of where your conscience could lead you during Henry VIII’s reign. Booking details are here, meanwhile Dave highlights the perils of charting…
Read moreAs part of the London Festival of Architecture, Jen Pedler will be running her new walk Once There Was a Church which recounts the stories of how the remnants City of London churches connect the past to the present. You can join Jen’s walk on the 7th and 18th June (booking details are here), but…
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