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Come explore the impact of World War Two on Bethnal Green Photo: Bethnal Green Tube Disaster Memorial (detail) © 2020 David Charnick Join me to explore the traces of the impact of World War Two on Bethnal Green. We commemorate the hardships faced on the Home Front, visiting the sites of three air raid shelters….
Read moreCome discover the East End’s weaving industry! Photo: Former Weavers’ Cottage, Cheshire Street – © David Charnick 2021 Join me to explore traces of the East End’s first industry as we follow the ups and downs of the weaving trade. Thrill to the Cutters’ Riots and reflect on the hardships embodied in a 1797 soup…
Read moreCelebrate Victorian outreach in Whitechapel and Spitalfields! Photo: Toynbee Hall – © David Charnick 2020 Victorian London was the epicentre of a boom in Britain’s national prosperity. But this success had a human cost. Poverty and exploitation accompanied London’s financial rise. Join me in acknowledging those Victorians who reached out to the dark area that…
Read moreCelebrate Victorian outreach in Whitechapel and Spitalfields! Photo: Toynbee Hall – © David Charnick 2020 Victorian London was the epicentre of a boom in Britain’s national prosperity. But this success had a human cost. Poverty and exploitation accompanied London’s financial rise. Join me in acknowledging those Victorians who reached out to the dark area that…
Read moreExplore Peter Ackroyd’s shadowy East End! Photo: St Anne Limehouse (detail) – © 2018 Alan Tucker Peter Ackroyd’s is one of the authentic voices of London: his novels, histories, biographies and so much more capture the rhythms of the city. This tour celebrates his portrayal of the riverside East End as a place of monsters…
Read moreExplore Peter Ackroyd’s shadowy East End! Photo: St Anne Limehouse (detail) – © 2018 Alan Tucker Peter Ackroyd’s is one of the authentic voices of London: his novels, histories, biographies and so much more capture the rhythms of the city. This tour celebrates his portrayal of the riverside East End as a place of monsters…
Read moreGet the history without the histrionics! Photo: former Working Lads’ Institute, Whitechapel © David Charnick 2021 With the finding of the body of Mary Ann Nichols in the early hours of 31 August 1888, a spate of serial killings began to prey on the public imagination, the most enigmatic series of murders ever to come…
Read moreGet the history without the histrionics! Photo: former Working Lads’ Institute, Whitechapel © David Charnick 2021 With the finding of the body of Mary Ann Nichols in the early hours of 31 August 1888, a spate of serial killings began to prey on the public imagination, the most enigmatic series of murders ever to come…
Read moreUncover a secret world of intelligence activity in St James’s Photo: St Ermin’s Hotel, Caxton Street – © David Charnick 2023 The St James’s area is redolent with history. It has traditional shops, some going back to the eighteenth and even seventeenth centuries. It has Jermyn Street, famous for its style. And of course it…
Read moreUncover a secret world of intelligence activity in St James’s Photo: St Ermin’s Hotel, Caxton Street – © David Charnick 2023 The St James’s area is redolent with history. It has traditional shops, some going back to the eighteenth and even seventeenth centuries. It has Jermyn Street, famous for its style. And of course it…
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