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The Knowledge: Into the Bullring

2026/10/24

London’s black-cab drivers. They're the matadors of this town. They nail it. They don’t just learn the city. They remake their brains to hold it. The Knowledge is memory training at an almost preposterous scale, the intellectual equivalent of memorising the complete works of Shakespeare.

Lambeth Unbuttoned

2026/10/23

Lambeth is a borough of extraordinary contrasts, where archbishops and radicals, palaces and poverty, royalty and rebellion have rubbed shoulders for centuries. Cross the Thames and discover a London that’s full of surprises, hiding some of its best stories in plain sight.

Fable & Mirth

2026/10/22

Three hundred shops and half a million shoppers a day on Oxford Street. Six or seven little shops and perhaps 85 shoppers on Kensington Church Walk. But what this tiny London street lacks in physical size, it more than makes up for in charm. Step inside Fable & Mirth, a jewel of a gift shop, and meet the two sisters who’ve brought a little extra magic to Kensington.

Barnet: Blood, Battles and Bad Hair Days

2026/10/21

A kingmaker killed in the fog. A fair that gave Cockneys a word for their hair. From bloody battlefields to ancient trees and world-changing ideas, Barnet is full of surprises.

Camden Town: Judith’s Home Turf

2026/10/20

Meet Judith, veteran London Walks guide and Camden Town insider extraordinaire. She’s lived right above Inverness Street Market, in the thick of Camden Town, for half a century. Who better to show us round and tell us its stories?

Enfield: You Don’t Know the Half of It

2026/10/19

Poets and palaces. Rifles and spies. The world’s first cash machine and a country house where German generals were secretly listened to. Welcome to Enfield, the London borough that’s full of surprises.

The Knock on the Door that Changed English Poetry

2026/10/19

The young John Keats, a cottage on Hampstead Heath, and the remarkable Leigh Hunt, the poet, journalist and troublemaker who opened his door to some of the greatest literary talents of the age.

The Little Piece of Ely in London

2026/10/18

Tucked away behind its gates, Ely Place is one of London’s strangest survivals, a little world of saints, bishops, strawberries, Tudor power and centuries-old privilege.

Tawdry

2026/10/17

A seventh-century queen, two unconsummated marriages, an incorruptible body and a medieval fair. Meet St Audrey, the remarkable woman hiding inside the word “tawdry.”

A Brush with Fire

2026/10/16

Parliament is burning, London is watching, and out on the Thames Turner is turning catastrophe into art.

The Night Edward Gibbon Had His Great Idea

2026/10/15

On October 15, 1764, amid the ruins of Rome, a young Londoner had an idea. Edward Gibbon would spend the next 23 years turning it into one of the greatest works of history ever written.

William Penn: The London Rebel Who Founded Pennsylvania

2026/10/14

Born near the Tower of London, jailed for his beliefs and determined to change the world. Meet William Penn, the London rebel who founded Pennsylvania, and the twelve stubborn London jurors who helped make legal history.

The First Knight of the Stage

2026/10/13

Bradford may have got his death. But London got his life. Meet Sir Henry Irving, the first actor to be knighted and the man who made the Lyceum Theatre the centre of London’s dramatic world.

Sid and Nancy: Punk Rock in Little Venice

2026/10/12

A stone’s throw from the quiet waters of Little Venice, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen were living one of rock ’n’ roll’s most turbulent love stories.

Christie’s: The Gallery Where Everything’s for Sale

2026/10/11

One of London’s greatest art galleries is hiding in plain sight, and everything on the walls is about to disappear.