London Walks

The Impossible Tunnel 25.03.2026 11:39 ↓

"it was the world's first underwater concert hall"

What If Everything You Know About Jack the Ripper Is Wrong? 24.03.2026 14:00 ↓

This is not just another Jack the Ripper book.

“I walked across London…and couldn’t believe it” 23.03.2026 8:24 ↓

"Charlie’s vital green thread through the capital led us instead…along river paths and bridleways…through woodland…past orchards…along the edges of hayfields…through parks and gardens…"

The Secret Life of London’s Greatest Showman 22.03.2026 4:52 ↓

Circus proprietor. Spy. Listening in.

KPG – A Street of Secrets, Wealth & Privilege 21.03.2026 6:52 ↓

This is not domestic scale. This is architectural swagger.

The Day Gravity Died in Westminster 20.03.2026 6:26 ↓

The whole thing – Newton in your pocket.

Andrew Marr Gets Carré-d Away on a London Walk 19.03.2026 4:30 ↓

"how much more emotional and vivid a story is when you are standing in front of it, rather than glancing at a screen"

Laurence Sterne – The Original Literary Rockstar Who Took London by Storm 18.03.2026 11:06 ↓

He writes like someone crossing a room full of mousetraps.

London’s Irish Story 17.03.2026 12:00 ↓

"70 million people around the world can claim Irish heritage"

Aubrey Beardsley – Genius, Scandal, and an Early Grave 16.03.2026 6:22 ↓

The drawings caused a sensation.

Broadcasting House: The BBC Comes of Age 15.03.2026 8:01 ↓

Radio – already powerful – suddenly acquired a cathedral.

The Night London Went Mikado-Mad 14.03.2026 9:34 ↓

A Japanese town run entirely by British civil servants.

Home to London – Alan Cobham’s Epic Flight 13.03.2026 8:41 ↓

aviation was still magical then.

Rule, Britannia! – The London Story Behind the Song 12.03.2026 8:42 ↓

He died while talking about music.

Don’t Panic – Douglas Adams’ London 11.03.2026 9:15 ↓

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy began as a wildly improbable idea brought to life in London. This is the story of Douglas Adams, the BBC, and the birth of one of the funniest creations in modern fiction.

Slasher Mary – The Suffragette Who Attacked the Rokeby Venus 10.03.2026 10:22 ↓

London. The National Gallery. A suffragette. A meat cleaver. And the Rokeby Venus.

The Mini Skirt Takes Over Swinging London – When Hemlines Suddenly Went North 09.03.2026 10:07 ↓

The mini skirt explodes onto the streets of Swinging London in the 1960s. The story begins with French designer André Courrèges, a former civil engineer whose futuristic fashions helped ignite a revolution that London girls turned into a global sensation.

The Blind Beggar Murder – When Ronnie Kray Shot George Cornell 08.03.2026 8:05 ↓

The Blind Beggar shooting was too brazen.

The Man Who Made London Roar – Landseer and the Lions of Trafalgar Square 07.03.2026 8:09 ↓

He didn’t just paint animals. He gave them emotion.

Thirty-eight Seconds of Perfect Guiding 06.03.2026 2:22 ↓

He didn't know it but at that moment Charles Cross insured his immortality within the pages of history books.

The American Who Reinvented Oxford Street 06.03.2026 9:45 ↓

After Selfridge, shopping became a leisure activity.

Oxford Street Without Traffic? 05.03.2026 8:46 ↓

Now if you know Oxford Street you know the soundtrack. Buses roaring. Taxi horns. Engines revving. Delivery vans edging forward inch by inch like nervous chess pieces. It’s noisy, chaotic, gloriously unmistakably London. So imagine this: Oxford Street… without traffic.

When John Lennon Said the Beatles Were More Popular than Jesus 04.03.2026 8:46 ↓

Sixty years ago a seemingly innocuous feature in a London newspaper triggered one of the most extraordinary cultural storms of the 1960s. In a quiet interview with the Evening Standard, John Lennon made a remark that travelled from Fleet Street to the American South — and ignited bonfires of Beatles records. In this episode we trace the tiny London tremor that became an international cultural eart...

Everest – At Eve, The Rest 03.03.2026 10:10 ↓

Why is Everest called Everest? At dusk on the world’s highest peak, we discover a name, a surveyor, and, yes, a London story. A March 3rd story.

Happy New Year, Londinium – When March Was New Year 02.03.2026 8:46 ↓

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.