London Walks is the oldest urban walking tour company on the planet. It’s the gold standard of this profession, this craft. Here you can listen to our guides' stories and anecdotes of London.
Before January claimed the crown, the year began in March. In this London Walks dispatch we step back into Roman Londinium to see how New Year's Day once fell on March 1st.
Born in Shepherd's Bush and armed with one of rock's great roars, Roger Daltrey helped define the sound of modern London. Today's London Calling marks the birthday of The Who's legendary frontman.
Meet John Tenniel, the London artist who gave the world Alice, the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat. Born on February 28, this quiet Punch cartoonist drew the definitive Wonderland.
It's about the seismic shockwave that followed, and is still being felt nearly a thousand years later.
The Bank of England. did something quietly revolutionary.
a city that understands the fine art of dignified absurdity
By early evening the blue-and-yellow flags will start to appear.
It's one of the most jaw-dropping episodes this city has ever produced.
"the trains are now painted with whiskers and paws"
If we could but look into the seeds of time...
the book came in for praise from a very distinguished quarter
Halfway to heaven on a ladder that looks about as reassuring as overcooked spaghetti.
The city did not just inherit brilliance. In many cases, it saved it.
A medieval city that once feared fire now fears water.
she was in the grip of the most ferocious creative surge of her life.
Painted across the 1860s, it isn't a single memory – it's grief revisited.
He weighed the world...and made it run on Greenwich time.
Into that street, that soundscape, that smellscape, comes Thomas More.
Old Rowley had put the country back in foal.
London grit meets London showmanship.
The familiar made strange; the invisible made visible.
Outside, the carts are rumbling past, piled with bodies.
London does something extraordinary. It decides to fight back against itself.
"you'll never be lonely if you play a musical instrument"
“What if I'm clueless about rugby?” Perfect. You're hired.
The United Nations has fewer member states than London has languages.
You're not just eating a cheese sandwich, you're tasting history.
He was a climber who treated the Alps like a cathedral.
History sometimes strikes a chord so deep it seems almost deliberate.
I was a Labour MP from 1997 to 2010...
If Big Ben measures time, the Division Bell claims it.
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