Footprints of London

Jazz, cocktails, fast cars and the Bright Young Things through the eyes of Waugh, Coward, Christie, Sayers, Huxley, Woolf and others. A walk around Soho, Piccadilly and Mayfair locations featured in 1920s fiction, hearing the tales of nightclub raids, jazz music and modernist design, cocktails and cocaine and changing social mores in London’s traumatised high…

Explore the haunts of writing luminaries and the evolution of publishing freedoms through the centuries in the ancient City of London A walk around locations important in the lives of Shakespeare, Pepys, Wilde, Donne, Defoe, Johnson and others. Through these stories the significance of the printing revolution in London emerges, with the fight for publishing…

A Sunday stroll in beautiful, historic Greenwich – from fishing and hunting to a naval powerhouse and centre of stargazing discovery Hear about its Saxon origins and Viking raids, Tudor and Stuart royal history as a hunting park and palace, through to its rapid acceleration in importance from the late 17th century until the 19th…

15th century London boils with political strife as the great houses of Lancaster and York battle to rule the kingdom Visit significant sites from the Wars of the Roses in the City of London, starting at the Globe to learn about Shakespeare’s later writings on the decades-long drama before heading off to hear of how…