An almost-circular walk around King’s Cross and St. Pancras stations and the extraordinary, vibrant redevelopment of what was a semi-derelict wasteland of railway lands. The area originally had a plentiful […]
Working-class migrants, often maligned as 'economic migrants', do business, make families, invent objects, bring pleasures, help each other, fight and die together. One old area of central London shows strong […]
Bloomsbury is such a lively area. On this walk through the streets and squares of Bloomsbury, Maggie Coates will tell the tale of some of the colourful humans who have […]
Discover Camden Town with Elena and Mike. It's lively, it's quirky, it's cosmopolitan and it's packed full of history! Camden Town is all of these things. It's a neighbourhood that […]
An almost-circular walk around King’s Cross and St. Pancras stations and the extraordinary, vibrant redevelopment of what was a semi-derelict wasteland of railway lands. The area originally had a plentiful […]
This walk begins 200 years ago in St John’s Wood, where family arrangements routinely diverged from Victorian rules of respectability. What did it mean to be a Kept Woman? Was […]
Now it's trendy and pretty, but 18th-century Seven Dials was notorious for poverty and crime. With no organised police force, thieves, highwaymen and fences bribed those hired to catch them, […]
This walk reveals where many key London events took place in British campaigns against slavery and slave-trading between the mid-1700s and mid-1800s. Fugitive and former slaves, white lawyers, activists and […]
Primrose Hill is now one of London's desirable areas, but it was born with the blood, sweat and toil that built the canal and railways. The neighbourhood radiates brilliant industrial […]