The Man Who Painted Joy
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London Walks
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.
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Constant Lambert: Brilliant, Bohemian, Burnt Out
Constant Lambert had wit, genius, glamour, appetite and almost no instinct whatsoever for self-preservation.
Moon Over Covent Garden
One outrageous evening in Covent Garden tells you almost everything you need to know about Restoration London.
Phyllida Law: She Was Some Kind of Woman
Phyllida Law – Ave atque vale
Why London’s Railway Story Begins in Canada
Before the first train steamed into London, its story had begun on a remote island in Lake Huron, with an eighteen-year-old soldier building a fort in the Canadian wilderness.
Æthelstan – The King Who Invented England
A house in Kensington and the story of Æthelstan, the warrior king who, 1,100 years ago, forged a kingdom and became the first ruler of all England.
Andrew Marvell – Sex, Time & London
"Had we but world enough, and time…" Meet Andrew Marvell: poet, politician, satirist, Londoner, and the man behind the sexiest poem in the English language. Then follow his footsteps through the London streets he knew.
David Low –The Hampstead Cartoonist Hitler Wanted Arrested
Hitler wanted him arrested. Mussolini banned him. And in a little Hampstead studio, David Low took on the dictators armed with nothing more than a pencil.
August 14th – The Day the Chiefs Died
"Less British Museum and more life"
How Many Strangers Do You See in a Day in London?
Strangers in London: for a few seconds their paths cross on a Tube escalator, then they disappear into the city.
William Blake: The Londoner Who Saw Angels and Talked to the Dead
The dead got into him. Old London got into him.
Lee Miller – From Vogue to Dachau to Hitler’s Bathtub
The woman who put the dirt of Dachau on Hitler’s bathmat.
The 200 Bodies on Everest… and the 250 in Arizona
The people in those vessels are not called bodies. They’re called patients.
The Ship on the Roof
The most wonderfully landlocked ship in London.
£20,000 for a Pair of Old Boots
...they’re old leather boots. Heavy, battered, workaday things. Except they’ve been silver-plated.
Thirty-nine
Each of those 39 stab wounds a candle blown out.
The Hotel that Invented Modern Luxury
He created a demonstration of modern life.
The Capitalist Who Created Communism
the capitalist who financed communism.
The Last Evening of the Old World
Everything you know of your life...
100 Years Ago Today
A 100 years ago today London changed colour.
From Deputy Nincompoop to Immortality
Not bad for the fellow who first walked onto a London stage as Deputy Nincompoop.
The Birthday Present London Never Stopped Opening
Three centuries and change later, London is still saying thank you.
Busman’s Holiday on Steroids
Like Budapest. Two cities separated by a river.
London’s Best-Kept Secret Opens Its Doors
The atmosphere is unlike anywhere else in London.
The Londoner Who Taught the Pharaohs to Talk
the smallest discoveries can be the biggest of all
Please Forward to Peter Rabbit
A mischievous rabbit in a little blue jacket.
The Pall Mall Peacocks
the gaming there was worthy of “the decline of an empire.”
Hello Possums!
That’s not a walking tour possum, that’s an endurance event with a gift shop.
The Little Red Building that Conquered the World
One has even become a little village fish tank.
Britain’s First Blackout
Whole streets became darker. Literally darker. Britain’s first blackout had begun.
The Man Who Reinvented London’s Skyline
they shaped modern architecture around the world
The Most Perfectly Choreographed London Day
The handsomest weather vane in London.
The London House of Secrets
The walls had ears. Hitler’s generals never knew.
Behind the Black Door
Everybody recognises Number 10. Almost nobody knows it.
London Comes Trailing Clouds of Glory
That’s London. Classic London. Reinventing itself. Rewriting the record books.
The Greatest Explorer You’ve Never Heard Of
The Chinese had a name for these Western explorers. ‘The Foreign Devils.’
The London Nobody Else Saw
The geography of his inspiration is remarkably intact.
Little America
Turn left at the giant turkey""
London is for the Birds
Vivid enough, colourful enough for you?
The London You’ve Never Heard
London is one of Europe’s great bird cities.
The Day Green Park Went Mad
The quietest park in London was once the noisiest place in Britain.
The Royal Park Nobody Notices
The smallest Royal Park has one of London's biggest surprises.
Hot Tip – Beat the Heat in Covent Garden
The one assaults you. The other quietly welcomes you, invites you, soothes you.
A Love Letter to Burlington Arcade – Commitment
Because every Londoner has a handful of places that reassure them the city hasn’t lost its soul. Burlington Arcade is one of mine.
A Love Letter to Burlington Arcade – Courtship
Beadle and Buddha are distant linguistic cousins.
A Love Letter to Burlington Arcade – Foreplay
It’s the oldest and grandest shopping arcade in Britain
Purrs, Paws, Poems, Paintings & Prime Ministers
Feline goings on from around the world
How Marie Stopes Learned About Sex
Marie Stopes taught a nation about sex because her own wedding night went so catastrophically wrong.
Making the List
If you alter it without consent? You can be prosecuted. Criminally.
The Best Room in London
the nearest the likes of me is ever going to get to an ancient, ever-so-posh, ever-so-upper-class English gentlemen’s club.