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Barnet: Blood, Battles and Bad Hair Days
A kingmaker killed in the fog. A fair that gave Cockneys a word for their hair. From bloody battlefields to ancient trees and world-changing ideas, B…
3 hours ago
Camden Town: Judith’s Home Turf
Meet Judith, veteran London Walks guide and Camden Town insider extraordinaire. She’s lived right above Inverness Street Market, in the thick of Camd…
1 day, 3 hours ago
Enfield: You Don’t Know the Half of It
Poets and palaces. Rifles and spies. The world’s first cash machine and a country house where German generals were secretly listened to. Welcome to E…
2 days, 1 hour ago
The Knock on the Door that Changed English Poetry
The young John Keats, a cottage on Hampstead Heath, and the remarkable Leigh Hunt, the poet, journalist and troublemaker who opened his door to some …
2 days, 14 hours ago
The Little Piece of Ely in London
Tucked away behind its gates, Ely Place is one of London’s strangest survivals, a little world of saints, bishops, strawberries, Tudor power and cent…
3 days, 5 hours ago
Tawdry
A seventh-century queen, two unconsummated marriages, an incorruptible body and a medieval fair. Meet St Audrey, the remarkable woman hiding inside t…
4 days, 18 hours ago
A Brush with Fire
Parliament is burning, London is watching, and out on the Thames Turner is turning catastrophe into art.
5 days, 2 hours ago
The Night Edward Gibbon Had His Great Idea
On October 15, 1764, amid the ruins of Rome, a young Londoner had an idea. Edward Gibbon would spend the next 23 years turning it into one of the gre…
6 days, 3 hours ago
William Penn: The London Rebel Who Founded Pennsylvania
Born near the Tower of London, jailed for his beliefs and determined to change the world. Meet William Penn, the London rebel who founded Pennsylvani…
1 week ago
The First Knight of the Stage
Bradford may have got his death. But London got his life. Meet Sir Henry Irving, the first actor to be knighted and the man who made the Lyceum Theat…
1 week, 1 day ago