Month: June 2017

guided walks around the City of London

Murder, Meat and Medicine

Smithfield – still a working meat market There’s a fascinating LONDON FOOTSTEPS walk coming up on Monday, 26th June 2017 – MURDER, MEAT AND MEDICINE. Are you interested in coming along and hearing about the part that Smithfield has played in the history London? Riots, murders, executions, even links with Monty Python. Henry VIII and…
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Remembering the Early Londoners

As the new office blocks currently going up re-shape the City skyline, it is worth reflecting on those who in past centuries have, in their own way, been a part of London’s remarkable 2000-year rise to prominence. Only a fraction of them appear in history books but that doesn’t mean we should forget them. Many…
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