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The City of London has been a key centre of trading since its foundation by the Romans. As part of our special season of Shakespeare walks to mark the 400th anniversary of his death, David Charnick explores how one aspect of this defining characteristic influenced Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists. A Moroccan prince, faced with…
Read moreApril is Shakespeare month here at Footprints of London as we launch a special series of walks to mark the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s death. To get us all in the mood, Neil Sinclair recounts the fascinating story of a potential mystery involving Shakespeare’s head. William Shakespeare’s heart was always in Stratford upon Avon…
Read moreTo ease us out of our special series of walks celebrating International Women’s Day, Robin Rowles recounts the story of two young ladies who found themselves on the opposite sides of the greatest divide in England’s history. “Behind every great man, there is a great woman”. This well-known proverb was certainly true during one of…
Read moreIn the latest in our special series of posts on our International Women’s Day series of walks, Jill Finch tells the tragic tale of Anne Askew, a woman who made the ultimate sacrifice for her conviction in her beliefs. On the death of her sister, the 15 year-old Anne Askew was married to her Catholic…
Read moreIn the next our special series of posts on our walks celebrating International Women’s Day, Tina Baxter recounts the story of a group of women who campaigned for equal rights in an infamous Fleet Street watering hole. Women journalists knew their place at El Vino; banished to a back room away from the bar and…
Read moreContinuing our special series of posts on our walks celebrating International Women’s Day, Alan Fortune tells the story of a woman who who bravely worked undercover for the Allied cause in wartime Paris. Noor Inayat Khan was born in Russia in 1914 to an Indian father and American mother and was a direct descendant of…
Read moreIn the next in a special series of posts on our walks celebrating International Women’s Day, Michael Duncan introduces us to an infamous Soho night club hostess from the roaring ’20s. Kate Meyrick was in many ways the typical Soho woman; bright, entrepreneurial, hard working, achingly cool and a rebel. But she was also hopeless…
Read moreAfter months of anticipation, the modern-day update of Visscher’s famous 1616 panorama of London has finally been unveiled. Neil Sinclair was at the launch at the Guildhall Art Gallery and tells us more. Four hundred years separate two iconic and fascinating panoramic views of the City of London now on display side by side in…
Read moreIn the first of series of posts on some of the fascinating characters you will encounter on our walks celebrating International Women’s Day, Jen Pedler shares the story of Nancy Astor’s journey to becoming our first ever female MP. Nancy Astor was the first woman to take her seat in parliament when she was elected…
Read moreIn 1588 when the Scottish reformer John Knox first published his diatribe The First Blast of the Trumpet from which the above phrase was taken, he was using words very differently from the way we would interpret them today. “Monstrous” meant “unnatural” and “regiment” meant “rule” (being as he was violently against female monarchs –…
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