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Literary Footprints 2020, the annual running of our celebration of all things literary London is under way, you can check this year’s full programme here. Jill Finch will be running two walking tours as part of the festival; Shardlake’s London on 5th October and a new tour for this year, Rivers of London Book 1:…
Read moreThe Literary Footprints Festival, the eighth annual running of our celebration of all things literary London starts tomorrow. You can check this year’s full programme here, but to get us all in the mood Oonagh Gay shares a snippet from her Conrad’s The Secret Agent: Anarchism in Fitzrovia Virtual Tour the she will be running…
Read moreThis blog celebrates the many connections London has with India. There are, of course, many memorials, buildings and institutions which are relevant to Britain’s colonial connections with India, but there are also currently thriving religious and other institutions which serve London’s considerable population with South Asian roots. The Top Ten blog can only provide a…
Read moreJune 9th 2020 is the 150th anniversary of the death of one of our greatest storytellers, Charles Dickens. Claire Tomalin in her book Charles Dickens: A Life hails Dickens as the greatest creator of characters after Shakespeare: “Dickensian characters, especially so because of their typically whimsical names are amomgst the most memorable in English literature….
Read moreGiven the ongoing restrictions on public gatherings (and because we miss you all!), we are going virtual and taking a number of our tours online. These virtual tours will be conducted via Zoom conferencing and will be hosted live by our guides who will talk you through their tour assisted by an illustrated presentation of…
Read moreLockdown means that our Footprints of London guides are doing even more reading than usual, and we are all avid readers. So we asked some of our guides to recommend some of the works of fiction set in London they have enjoyed (and books for which London, or a part of London, as a location…
Read moreDeptford local Sean Patterson shares the fascinating story of the man after whom his street is named When I moved to Millennium Quay in Deptford four and a half years ago, the only remarkable thing that I knew about my address on Glaisher Street was its annoying habit of being auto-corrected to ‘Glazier Street’ by…
Read moreSo how’s your lockdown going? If you’re anything like us, you’re on the lookout for some variety as to how and where to take your government-sanctioned exercise, so we turned to our team of talented guides and asked for some suggestions from their own local areas accompanied with a few historical pearls to help you…
Read moreThe Covid 19 outbreak is a difficult time for London, but it is not the first time London has faced viruses, plagues, disease and pestilence. So we asked our Footprints of London Guides to come up connections to outbreaks from the past, how they affected London and how London dealt with them. 1. London Smallpox…
Read moreJen Pedler tells the story of a notorious road junction and its tube station – the end point of her ‘Suburbs, Stations and Subways‘ walk. The Hanger Lane gyratory system, where the North Circular Road meets the A40, was voted Britain’s scariest road junction in a 2007 survey by the Highway Insurance Company. Poorly signed,…
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