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The Sound of Music History
"sets you up nicely should that come up as a question in a pub quiz"
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Outsider at the Heart of London
A lively, cinematic wander into the story of St Martin in the Fields, the church that began life in the fields and ended up beating at the heart of L…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Winter Solstice on the Towpath
Step off the roaring streets and into a Christmas whispered along the water. On the winter solstice, we explore the Regent’s Canal’s Cinderella stret…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Dr Samuel Johnson – London’s Mighty Wordsmith
On the anniversary of Samuel Johnson’s death, we look back at the life of the man who gave the English language its first great map. From Lichfield b…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Robert Browning – Death in Venice, Born in London
A vivid, fast moving, cinematic look at Robert Browning on the anniversary of his 1889 Death in Venice. A London-born poet who reinvented the dramati…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Count Smorltork Rises
On the second Wednesday in December, the Dickens Pickwick Club gathers at the ancient George & Vulture – an 18th-century warren of port, oak panels, …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Party like it’s 1843…
A double dose of goodness for you this evening...
8 months, 3 weeks ago
A Bite of Christmas
This is a lively, fireside wander through the strange and splendid history of the mince pie. It begins in medieval kitchens where the pie was a hefty…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Thrillers on Villiers
Jack’s Christmas Lights Walk begins here for a reason. Villiers Street is the perfect overture: dense with history, glowing with stories, and sprinkl…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
When London Slept and History Changed
On 7 December 1941, as Japan struck Pearl Harbor, London was deep in its third winter of war: bruised, blacked out, queueing for scraps, shrugging of…
8 months, 4 weeks ago