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SUMMARY:Charles Dickens’ London tour on Boxing Day
DESCRIPTION:Tour Charles Dickens’s London on Boxing Day with Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London\, and the capital’s most prolific tour guide \nThe tour takes place on Friday the 26th of December 2025\, which just happens to be Boxing Day this year. \nIt starts outside Farringdon Station on Cowcross Street at 11:a.m – 12:45 (approx)\, finishing near St Paul’s Cathedral. \n• Please book on Eventbrite. \n• Free to register. The tourist board suggests tipping around £12 at the end if you think the tour was worth it. \n*** \nDickens is London.\nNo author has explored and explained the capital in such depths\, with such warmth\, humour and empathy. \nDickens called London his “magic lantern”. \nEd Glinert\, a Penguin Classics editor\, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London\, and the capital’s most prolific tour guide\, leads this Boxing Day tour of Charles Dickens’ haunts around the Old Bailey\, Clerkenwell and Smithfield\, with excerpts from Bleak House\, Pickwick Papers\, Oliver Twist and more.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/charles-dickens-london-tour-on-boxing-day/
LOCATION:Farringdon Station\, Cowcross Street\, London\, EC1M 6BY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours
ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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SUMMARY:Christmas Day tour in London\, December 2025
DESCRIPTION:Calling all Londoners and festive visitors to the capital. Want to build up an appetite before Christmas dinner? Psyching yourself up before watching the King giving his speech\, or before treating the family to a downloaded version of Top of the Pops 1973? \nThen book onto New London Walks’ annual tour: \n“Christmas Day in London – the Power\, Corruption & Lies tour”.\nThe tour takes place on Thursday\, the 25th of December 2025\, which just happens to be Christmas Day this year\, and starts at Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square at 10:30 a.m. It lasts around 4 hours and we usually find a friendly cafe open\, even though it’s Christmas\, for a breather half way. We finish back at Nelson. \nThis is a walk around the corridors\, okay the streets\, of Westminster and Whitehall\, the very centres of political intrigue\, so that Ed Glinert\, London’s most entertaining and informed historian and tour guide\, can reveal the most fascinating\, eye-opening and ridiculous stories\, scandals and secrets – from where the monarch goes down into the nuclear bunker\, to the secret tunnel that connects No. 10 to Buck Palace\, to the tube station used by the Nazis to spy on MI6\, and a host of similar tales that you always wanted to know about. This is all very topical\, because after years of acting in the public’s interest\, our politicians have suddenly started behaving strangely. \nEd Glinert has conducted more than a thousand tours of London\, and written Penguin’s London Compendium (2003)\, the most important book on the capital this century; and Penguin’s East End Chronicles and West End Chronicles. He is a tour guide trained by the Institute of Tourist Guiding. \n•Please book on Eventbrite. \n•Cost: £66.66 including booking fee. \n•Catch this tour before Glinert gets arrested by the security services for betraying the nation’s secrets.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/christmas-day-tour-in-london-december-2025/
LOCATION:Nelson’s Column\, Trafalgar Square\, Charing Cross\, London\, WC2N 5DU
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours
ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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SUMMARY:Charles Dickens' London – Dickens in the City
DESCRIPTION:Date: Boxing Day\, Tue 26 December 2024.\nMeet: Farringdon station\, 11am.\nBooking: Please click here to book with Eventbrite\,  \nDickens IS Christmas. \nTour Charles Dickens’s London on Boxing Day with Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London.\nIt’s free to register\, but do tip if you think the guide has done a good job!\n*** \nDickens is London. \nNo author has explored and explained the capital in such depths\, with such warmth\, humour and empathy. \nDickens called London his “magic lantern”. \nEd Glinert\, a Penguin Classics editor and London’s most prolific tour guide\, leads this Boxing Day tour of Charles Dickens’ old City of London\, with accounts and locations from Bleak House\, Pickwick Papers\, Oliver Twist and more.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/charles-dickens-london/
LOCATION:Farringdon\, Cowcross Street\, London\, EC1M 6BY\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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SUMMARY:London Christmas Day Walk
DESCRIPTION:Join us in London on Christmas Day for an exciting\, entertaining\, enlightening guided tour led by London’s leading historian\, Ed Glinert.\nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s lauded London Compendium\, East End Chronicles and West End Chronicles\, the capital’s most prolific tour guide\, leads this saunter through the West End and Westminster as we meander through the mysterious mews of Mayfair\, stylish St James’s and sleazy Soho. \nWe will meet a colourful cast of characters:Mick Jagger\, Charles Dickens\, the Rothschilds\, Queen Victoria\, the head of MI5\, Karl Marx\, Sherlock Holmes\, Lady Emerald Cunard\, David Bowie…well\, metaphorically\, on this bumper Christmas Day tour right through the heart of the capital. \n* Meet outside Selfridges on Oxford St at 11am.\n* There will be stops for coffee\, a sandwich…\n* Coming by car? You can park anywhere\, but do check.\n* Ends by the bright lights of Soho. \nBOOK NOW
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/london-christmas-day-walk/
LOCATION:Selfridges\, Oxford Road\, London\, W1A 1AB
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ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231226T124000
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SUMMARY:Charles Dickens in Covent Garden FREE Boxing Day Tour
DESCRIPTION:This FREE tour: Charles Dickens in Covent Garden\nDate: Boxing Day\, 26th of December\nMeet: Holborn station\, 11am.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite\,  \nDickens IS Christmas. \nWithout London’s greatest author we would have no ghosts of Christmas past\, no Christmas presents\, no Christmas cards\, no Christmas tree. Oh\, all right\, we might have had some of those\, but we definitely wouldn’t have had this tasty Turkey-time morsel from A Christmas Carol.\n“No fog\, no mist; clear\, bright jovial\, stirring\, cold; cold\, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh\, glorious! Glorious!” \nEd Glinert of New London Walks\, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London\, leaves Scrooge to freeze with his humbug to lead this festive tour around Charles Dickens’s central London haunts\, from Lincoln’s Inn (where at the very heart of the fog\, sits the Lord High Chancellor) to Covent Garden. 
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/charles-dickens-in-covent-garden-2/
LOCATION:Holborn Station\, Holborn Station\, Kingsway\, London\, WC2B 6AA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Famous People,Local History,Places
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ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231225T160000
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SUMMARY:Christmas Day London Tour
DESCRIPTION:This free tour: Christmas Day 2023.\nMeet: At the Eros statue\, Piccadilly Circus\, 11am.\nDuration: Around four hours with a coffee stop half-way.\nWhat if…? You have to go early to turn the turkey. We will have been so pleased to see you\, but don’t forget to tip the guide!\nBooking: Please press here to register with Eventbrite. \n\nDiscover the sensational secret history of London on Christmas Day with the capital’s leading historian and most energetic tour guide\, Penguin author Ed Glinert\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Ed Glinert to take in the sleazy sexy streets of Soho\, the magical mysterious mews of Mayfair and the stylish sophisticated sights and sites of St James’s. \nEye-opening stories of society hostesses\, political intrigue\, royal scandal\, spies and spooks\, the Titanic\, ’orrible murders\, Rolls and Royce\, the Beatles\, the Stones\, fascists\, Sherlock Holmes\, one or two Rothschilds\, Marx & Engels and the kitchen sink. \n\n\nMeet Mick Jagger\, Charles Dickens\, Oscar Wilde\, Samuel Pepys\, the late Queen\, Arsene Wenger\, the head of MI6\, James II\, Boris Johnson…well\, some of them\, metaphorically\, by joining us on this bumper festive tour through the capital. \nWe go from the very centre of London – Trafalgar Square – into the very heart of Whitehall\, very posh St James’s\, even posher Mayfair and the wildly exciting West End\, hearing\, learning\, reliving the stories of Royal London\, Victorian London\, rock music London\, Sherlock Holmes’s London\, wartime London\, Spies’ and Spooks’ London\, Churchillian London … and a whole melting pot of the stories of the greatest city in the world. \nAnd what stories as we visit: \n\nThe secret location which the Queen uses to go down to her nuclear bunker.\nThe building where the horrors of the Titanic were revealed to the crowds.\nThe cat who guards the foreign secretary.\nThe palace where the Queen (not this Queen) allowed a foundling to replace the royal female birth.\nThe massive column that leads to the tunnel that joins 10 Downing Street to Buckingham Palace (“What tunnel?” – Rishi). \n\nAnd that’s just before the first coffee stop! \nIdeal for inquisitive tourists who want to discover London. A must for Londoners who want to find out more about their city before dinner.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/christmas-day-london-tour/
LOCATION:Eros\, Piccadilly Circus\, Piccadilly Circus\, London\, W1J 9HP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Local History,Places
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ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221226T134500
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SUMMARY:Charles Dickens in the City
DESCRIPTION:Charles Dickens in the City\nFREE Boxing Day tour with Penguin’s Ed Glinert\nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s Literary guide to London\, leads this Boxing Day tour of Charles Dickens’ old City of London. \nDate: Monday 26 December 2022\, 12:00 – 13:45\nMeet: 12:00\, Farringdon Station Cowcross Street London EC1M 6BY\nCost: FREE\nBooking: Please press here to reserve your spot with Eventbrite. \nDickens is London. \nNo author has explored and explained the capital in such depths\, with such warmth\, humour and empathy. \nDickens called London his “magic lantern”. \nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s Literary guide to London and a Penguin Classics editor\, leads this Boxing Day tour of Charles Dickens’ old City of London\, with accounts and locations from Bleak House\, Pickwick Papers\, Opliver Twist and more.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/charles-dickens-in-the-city/
LOCATION:Farringdon Station\, Cowcross Street\, London\, EC1M 6BY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Local History
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ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220515T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220515T163000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T092147Z
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SUMMARY:The Beatles' London
DESCRIPTION:They came from Liverpool to conquer London and create the best-loved music in British history. Join Ed Glinert around their London haunts.\n  \nEveryone knows Abbey Road. Who hasn’t posed on the world’s most famous zebra crossing? But what about the posh London house where they all lived? Or the Apple boutique with the garish psychedelic mural\, and the Savile Row tailor’s where they got their suits made\, let alone the roof where they played their last gig? \n  \nEd Glinert\, the msn nobody would call the 5th Beatle\, leads this mind-expanding tour of the Beatles’ London…with music\, like you won’t get on the other tours. \n  \nBOOK NOW
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/the-beatles-london/
LOCATION:marylebone\, Melcombe Place\, London\, London\, NW1 6JJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Famous People,Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220515T130000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T085734Z
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SUMMARY:The Rolling Stones's London Tour – 50 Years of Exile on Main Street
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Rolling Stones’s London & 50 years of Exile on Main St on this tour (with music) led by ex-Mojo production editor Ed Glinert\n \nThey were the anti-Beatles. They were a rougher-edged\, dangerous version of the cutesy Fab Four. To this day people around the world ask: “Are you a fan of the Beatles or the Stones?”\n \nBad boys. The famous headline ran: “Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?”\n \nThey were wild\, wicked and wayward\, and the West End was their playground.\n\n\n\n \nTo mark 50 years since the Rolling Stones released Exile on Main Street\, Ed Glinert\, author of Fodor’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Traveller series and former Mojo production editor\, leads this tour of their London haunts (with music!)\n \nBOOK NOW\n \n 
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/the-rolling-stoness-london-tour-50-years-of-exile-on-main-street/
LOCATION:Dominion Theatre\, 268-269 Tottenham Court Road\, London\, W1T 7AQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Famous People,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220514T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220514T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20220503T084148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T084319Z
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SUMMARY:FREE TOUR - Richmond Pub Tour
DESCRIPTION:Ed Glinert\, the country’s most prolific tour guide\, leads this FREE pub tour around London’s most beautiful village.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s London’s most beautiful neighbourhood\, home of the country’s largest village green which leads to the only surviving palace in the capital one can walk through and a most glorious stretch of riverside. \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s ground-breaking London Compendium\, the country’s most prolific tour guide and one of the capital’s best-researched historians\, will show you one of the most wonderful places in England and how its rich history embraces an exciting range of subjects and people. \nThis tour is FREE\, (yes\, you read that correctly\, it’s FREE) – BUT we do need you to book a place\, so…\nBOOK NOW
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/free-tour-richmond-pub-tour/
LOCATION:Richmond\, The Quadrant\, London\, TW9 1EZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Local History,Places,Pubs
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220514T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220514T134500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20220503T084835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T084845Z
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SUMMARY:Brick Lane - Free London Tour
DESCRIPTION:Brick Lane is the most exciting street in London. Ed Glinert\, author of “111 Places in London’s East End You Shouldn’t Miss”\, shows you why.\nIt’s London’s most exciting street: the street with everything: \n\n* A mad manic market.\n* Vintage clothes shops.\n* Authentically independent coffee houses.\n* Ever-changing street art.\n* The best beigel bakery in the world in what was a Jewish ghetto\, and so much more.\n\n  \nEd Glinert\, author of “111 Places in the East End of London You Shouldn’t Miss”\, Penguin’s London Compendium\, and Penguin’s East End Chronicles\, hosts this tour. It’s FREE but he won’t refuse a few shekels tapped into his trilby at the end of the tour to help him fund a salt beef dinner at the Brick Lane Beigel Bakery. \nThis tour is FREE (yes\, you read that correctly\, it’s FREE) BUT we do need you to book a place\, so…\n  \nBOOK NOW
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/brick-lane-free-london-tour-2/
LOCATION:Aldgate East Station\, Aldgate East Station\, (Art Gallery exit)\, London\, E1 7PT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Jewish History,Local History,Places
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220423T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220423T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20220406T090850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T090934Z
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SUMMARY:Richmond Pub Walk - FREE London Tour
DESCRIPTION:Ed Glinert\, the country’s most prolific tour guide\, leads this FREE pub tour around London’s most beautiful village.\nIt’s London’s most beautiful neighbourhood\, home of the country’s largest village green which leads to the only surviving palace in the capital one can walk through and a most glorious stretch of riverside. \nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s ground-breaking London Compendium\, the country’s most prolific tour guide and one of the capital’s best-researched historians\, will show you how Richmond is one of the most wonderful places in England and how its rich history embraces an exciting range of subjects and people. \nThis tour is FREE (yes\, you read that correctly\, it’s FREE)\, BUT we do need you to book a place – so…\nBook Here
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/richmond-pub-walk-free-london-tour/
LOCATION:Richmond\, The Quadrant\, London\, TW9 1EZ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220423T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220423T134500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20220406T090114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T090114Z
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SUMMARY:Brick Lane - FREE London Tour - April
DESCRIPTION:Brick Lane is the most exciting street in London. Ed Glinert\, author of 111 Places in London’s East End You Shouldn’t Miss\, shows you why.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s London’s most exciting street: the street with everything: \n\nA mad manic market.\nVintage clothes shops.\nAuthentically independent coffee houses.\nEver-changing street art.\nThe best beigel bakery in the world in what was a Jewish ghetto.\nThe biggest conglomeration of curry houses in London where waiters rush out to grab potential customers\, thereby instantly losing custom…\n\nAND so much more. \nThis tour is FREE (yes\, you read that correctly\, it’s FREE)\, BUT we do need you to book a place – so…\nBook Here
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/brick-lane-free-london-tour-april/
LOCATION:Aldgate East Station\, Aldgate East Station\, (Art Gallery exit)\, London\, E1 7PT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:East End,Local History,Places,Tourist Sights
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ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220226T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220226T131500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20220209T093514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220209T093516Z
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SUMMARY:Brick Lane - FREE London Tour
DESCRIPTION:Brick Lane is the most exciting street in London. Ed Glinert\, author of 111 Places in London’s East End You Shouldn’t Miss\, shows you why.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s the street with everything:\n\n* A mad manic market.\n\n* Vintage clothes shops.\n\n* Authentically independent coffee houses.\n\n* Ever-changing street art.\n\n* The best beigel bakery in the world in what was a Jewish ghetto.\n\n* The biggest conglomeration of curry houses in London where waiters rush out to grab potential customers\, thereby instantly losing custom… And so much more\nThis tour is FREE (yes\, you read that correctly\, it’s FREE)\, BUT we do need you to book a place – so…\nBook Here
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/brick-lane-free-london-tour/
CATEGORIES:Local History,Places
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ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220225T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220225T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20220209T092500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220209T092904Z
UID:834-1645788600-1645795800@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jewish East End - FREE Tour
DESCRIPTION:Jewish East End with Ed Glinert\, the capital’s most entertaining tour guide\n\n\n\n\n\nThey came from the ghettos of eastern Europe to re-populate the ghettos of London’s East End. They brought with erudite learning\, entertaining spiel\, pickled foods and boundless energy. Yes\, Oliver Cromwell\, that nebisch\, invited the Jews to return to London in 1656\,and we’re still here! So join Ed Glinert\, Penguin author\, London’s most versatile tour guide\, and the funniest raconteur since the prophet Jeremiah through the back streets of Brick Lane and Petticoat Lane in search of the most interesting Jewish history since King Hoshea vacated the throne.\nThis tour is FREE (yes\, you read that correctly\, it’s FREE)\, BUT we do need you to book a place – so…\nBook Here
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/jewish-east-end-free-tour/
CATEGORIES:East End,Local History,Places
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ORGANIZER;CN="New London Walks":MAILTO:info@newlondonwalks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210516T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210516T184500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20210412T143410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T092126Z
UID:750-1621186200-1621190700@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Brick Lane; London's most exciting street - Zoom Tour
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/brick-lane-londons-most-exciting-street-zoom-tour/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Local History,Places,Virtual Tours
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210430T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210430T184500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20210412T142610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T142648Z
UID:747-1619803800-1619808300@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jack the Ripper: All Conspiracies Explained with Penguin author Ed Glinert
DESCRIPTION:If you think Jack the Ripper is simply about murdering prostitutes\, think again! The story goes right into the secrets of the British state.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nRipper \nThis is the only Jack the Ripper tour that takes you to all five murder sites – and the obscure East End location\, site of the chapel where the illegal royal wedding central to the story took place. \nThis is the only Jack the Ripper tour that explains the extraordinary Masonic links\, long ridiculed in public by the Freemasons themselves. \nThis is the only Jack the Ripper tour that explains how the local Jewish population in 1888 were singled out for abuse and blame. \nThis is the Jack the Ripper tour that goes straight to the weird and wonderful conspiracy theories that makes this story the most fascinating in London history\, and lifts the lid on the Jack the Ripper team that terrorised London. \nIf you think Jack the Ripper is simply about murdering prostitutes\, think again! The story goes right into the heart of the British state and its secrets. \nJoin Ed Glinert\, prolific London tour guide and historian\, author of Penguin’s East End Chronicles and Emons’ 111 Places in London’s East end You Shouldn’t Miss\, on this journey into fear.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/jack-the-ripper-all-conspiracies-explained-with-penguin-author-ed-glinert/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Famous People,Jack The Ripper,Local History,Virtual Tours
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210429T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210429T184500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20210412T142030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T142030Z
UID:739-1619717400-1619721900@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Isle of Dogs: Zoom tour with Ed Glinert\, the East End's leading historian
DESCRIPTION:Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s East End Chronicles\, hosts this entertaining expert Zoom exploration of the very heart of the old East End.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s East End Chronicles\, the most important 21st century history of the area\,  t on Zoom of the very heart of the old East End of London. \nOur story starts in mediaeval times when the U–shaped peninsula was uninhabited and prone to constant flooding. It remained a lonely place. Samuel Pepys\, journeying to a wedding dressed “in a new coloured silk suit and coat trimmed with gold buttons and gold broad lace round my hands\, very rich and fine” on the 31st of July 1665 was forced to stay here for a few hours when his horse-drawn ferry became stuck in the ebb tide. He captured the predicament in his diary: “So we were fain to stay there\, in the unlucky Isle of Doggs\, in a chill place\, the night cold and wind fresh . . . to our great discontent”. \nWhere does the strange name come from? It had been Stebunhethe (Stepney) Marsh until it acquired a nickname: the Isle of Dogs. Nobody knows how this strange name came about. It may have been a corruption of “Isle of Ducks” or “Isle of Dykes”. It may have referred to real dogs – Henry VIII’s royal hounds – which were kept here. \nNothing much took place here until the dramatic construction of West India Dock at the northern end of the peninsula at the end of the 18th century tore apart the remaining rural features of the Isle. An army of navvies\, bricklayers\, carpenters\, surveyors\, engineers and architects descended on the area\, wiping out the hedgerows and lanes to excavate huge basins for the docks. Forbiddingly high brick walls were formed from the extracted earth and placed around the site to protect it\, implying a mystery within which tantalised visitors and locals for the next hundred and fifty years. It was now the hub of London industry: Planet Vulcan\, a burning smithy of iron and steel powering shipbuilding and engineering. \nMore docks arrived until more than half the landmass was actually water\, huge caverns where tens of thousands of men loaded and unloaded thousands of ships for more than a hundred fifty years\, and much of this geographical system survives even though the docks died decades ago. \nThe modern-day Isle of Dogs couldn’t be more of a contrast. Much of the worst 1960s housing has been replaced by expensive town houses\, the industrial mess has been cleared away\, and the most conspicuous sight are Britain’s tallest estate of skyscrapers at Canary Wharf\, home to Mammon and the media\, a commercial empire of granite and glass\, the shining city of the dream.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/isle-of-dogs-zoom-tour-with-ed-glinert-the-east-ends-leading-historian/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Local History,Places,Virtual Tours
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210427T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210427T184500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20210318T154938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210318T154938Z
UID:736-1619544600-1619549100@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Underground London: Below the Capital on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:10 million people in the world’s greatest city\, but what’s down below – secret government installations\, atomic bunkers\, dead tube stations!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nUnderground London\, not London Underground! \nJoin Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s London Compendium and tour guide for New London Walks\, to head deep down London\, opening up the tunnels\, bunkers and subterranean spaces tempting you below the capital. \nWe will discover: \n• The tunnel you’re not supposed to know about which connects 10 Downing Street to Buckingham Palace. \n• The Pindar bunker where the government take refuge during times of crisis (so what’s new?). \n• Those long deserted underground stations. Who knows what’s down there? \n• Underground rivers such as the Fleet. \n• The Thames tunnel linking Wapping and Rotherhithe\, the first such in the world\, which nearly killed Brunel. \n• The Tower subway which features in the Jack the Ripper mystery. \n• Underground military citadels and air-raid shelters used during the War. \n• Cemetery catacombs. \nNo torch\, sturdy boots or clinking keys needed. All done from the safety of your laptop…
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/underground-london-below-the-capital-on-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Local History,Places,Virtual Tours
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210422T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210422T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20210318T154209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210318T154209Z
UID:733-1619118000-1619123400@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Rolling Stones's London Zoom (50 Years of Sticky Fingers)
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the Stones’s Sticky Fingers at 50 with this expert Zoom tour (with all the music) by ex-Mojo production editor Ed Glinert\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo mark 50 years since the Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers\, Ed Glinert\, author of Fodor’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Traveller series and former Mojo production editor\, leads this detailed\, complete Zoom tour of their London haunts (with music!) \nYes\, it’s the Rolling Stones’ London (“Exile on Denmark Street”).• It’s the complete jumping jack 19th nervous standing in the shadows tour.• We will let it loose in Soho\, Mayfair\, Kensington and Chelsea. \n••• \nThey were the anti-Beatles. They were a rougher-edged\, dangerous version of the cutesy moptops. To this day people around the world ask: “Are you a fan of the Beatles or the Stones?” \nBad boys. The famous headline ran: “Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?” \nThey were wild\, wicked and wayward\, and London was their playground.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/rolling-stoness-london-zoom-50-years-of-sticky-fingers/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Music,Virtual Tours
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210313T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210313T124500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20210225T111624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T111624Z
UID:726-1615633200-1615639500@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Jack the Ripper: the Final Solution
DESCRIPTION:If you think Jack the Ripper is simply about murdering prostitutes\, think again! The story goes right into the secrets of the British state.\n\n\n\n \nRipper\n\n\nThis is the only Jack the Ripper tour that takes you to all five murder sites – and the obscure East End location\, site of the chapel where the illegal royal wedding central to the story took place.\n\n\nThis is the only Jack the Ripper tour that explains the extraordinary Masonic links\, long ridiculed in public by the Freemasons themselves. \nThis is the only Jack the Ripper tour that explains how the local Jewish population in 1888 were singled out for abuse and blame. \nThis is the Jack the Ripper tour that goes straight to the weird and wonderful conspiracy theories that makes this story the most fascinating in London history\, and lifts the lid on the Jack the Ripper team that terrorised London. \nIf you think Jack the Ripper is simply about murdering prostitutes\, think again! The story goes right into the heart of the British state and its secrets. \nJoin Ed Glinert\, prolific London tour guide and historian\, author of Penguin’s East End Chronicles and Emons’ 111 Places in London’s East end You Shouldn’t Miss\, on this journey into fear.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/jack-the-ripper-the-final-solution/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Famous People,Jack The Ripper,Local History,Virtual Tours
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210225T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210225T184500
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20210225T104021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T104021Z
UID:723-1614274200-1614278700@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Underground London\, What's Below the Capital?
DESCRIPTION:10 million people in the world’s greatest city\, but what’s down below – secret government installations\, atomic bunkers\, dead tube stations\n\n\n\n\n\nUnderground London\, not London Underground!\n\n\nJoin Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s London Compendium and tour guide for New London Walks\, heading deep down London\, opening up the tunnels\, bunkers and subterranean spaces tempting you below the capital. \nWe will discover:\n• The tunnel you’re not supposed to know about which connects 10 Downing Street to Buckingham Palace. \n• The Pindar bunker where the government take refuge during times of crisis (so what’s new?). \n• Those long deserted underground stations. Who knows what’s down there? \n• Underground rivers such as the Fleet. \n• The Thames tunnel linking Wapping and Rotherhithe\, the first such in the world\, which nearly killed Brunel. \n• The Tower subway which featured in the Jack the Ripper story. \n• Underground military citadels and air-raid shelters used during the War. \n• Cemetery catacombs. \nNo torch\, sturdy boots or clinking keys needed. All done from the safety of your laptop…
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/underground-london/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Local History,Places,Virtual Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210124T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210124T163000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20201129T151401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201129T151401Z
UID:702-1611498600-1611505800@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Crown Official Walks: the Princess Diana Years
DESCRIPTION:The Crown: The Princess Diana Years\n \nYou’ve seen The Crown: this is the real-life walk\, taking in Princess Diana’s Kensington haunts\, followed by a quick trip to Westminster.\n\n\n\n\n\nThey called her the People’s Princess and the Queen of Hearts yet she was just a shy upper-class girl plucked out of obscurity on account of her virginal and Protestant status to marry the heir to the throne. What could possibly go wrong?\n\n\nEd Glinert\, Penguin author\, cruise ships speaker\, and one of the country’s most prolific guides\, leads this right royal romp around the roadways and rows of Princess Diana’s London. \nHow do I book?\nThis tour is available to book via Eventbrite
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/the-crown-official-walks-the-princess-diana-years/
LOCATION:Earls Court station\, 218 Earls Court Road\, London\, SW5 9QB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Famous People,Places,Royalty
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210124T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210124T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20201129T150842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201129T150842Z
UID:695-1611487800-1611495000@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Crown Official Walks: from Princess Lillibet to Queen Elizabeth
DESCRIPTION:From Princess Lillibet to Queen Elizabeth\n \nYou’ve seen The Crown: this is the real-life walk around London version taking in the Queen’s capital haunts.\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’ve watched the show\, marvelled at the costumes\, thrilled at the grand houses\, and grown up with the young princess-turned-longest-surviving queen.\n\n\nNow it’s time to walk the walk. Ed Glinert\, who gives talks on the royal family on cruise ships and author of Penguin’s London Compendium\, leads this right royal tour through Queen Elizabeth’s London: from birth at the Bowes-Lyon’s to jubilant jubilees. \nHow do I book?\nThis tour is available to book via Eventbrite
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/the-crown-official-walks-from-princess-lillibet-to-queen-elizabeth/
LOCATION:Jack Barclay Bentley\, 18 Berkeley Square\, London\, W1J 6AE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Famous People,Local History,Royalty
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201228T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201228T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20201129T145925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201129T145954Z
UID:691-1609153200-1609158600@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:The Official Jack the Ripper tour on ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:The Official Jack the Ripper Tour\n  \nWho was it and how did he get away with it? Those are the wrong questions to be asking about the greatest murder mystery in London history.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho was it and how did he get away with it? If those are the questions you’re asking about the greatest murder mystery in London history – Jack the Ripper – you’re asking the wrong questions! \nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s East End Chronicles and Emon’s 111 Places in London’s East End That You Shouldn’t Miss\, and one of Britain’s most prolific tour guides\, has come closer to cracking the case than any other guide or writer. So join his Zoom tour around Whitechapel and the East End to discover the spellbinding and eye-opening story. We will be visiting all five murder sites and the obscure East End location at the centre of the mystery. And all for just £7.50! \nHow do I book?\nThis tour is available to book via Eventbrite
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/the-official-jack-the-ripper-tour-on-zoom/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Jack The Ripper,Local History,Virtual Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201227T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201227T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20201120T140745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201120T144412Z
UID:647-1609068600-1609072200@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Sherlock Holmes at Christmas - virtual tour
DESCRIPTION:I called on my friend Sherlock Holmes on the 2nd morning after Christmas with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season…\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is it?\n\n\nSo begins the classic Conan Doyle 1892 Christmas short story mystery “The Blue Carbuncle”. \nSet in central London and the West End\, we find Holmes and Watson tearing around the capital in search of a priceless gem stolen from the hotel suite of the Countess of Morcar. But how did the jewel end up in the throat of a goose\, fatted for Christmas\, and why is Holmes examining a battered old hat belonging to a Henry Baker when Watson calls? \nEd Glinert\, editor of Penguin Classics’ Sherlock Holmes stories and prolific London tour guide\, reveals the story while taking you around the London haunts connected with the tale on this Zoom version of his regular Christmas walk. \nWhen is it?\nDecember 27\, 2020 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM GMT \nHow do I book?\nThis tour is available to book through Eventbrite
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/sherlock-holmes-at-christmas-virtual-tour/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours,Virtual Tours
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201226T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201226T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20201116T155422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T115906Z
UID:632-1608980400-1608985800@www.newlondonwalks.co.uk
SUMMARY:Charles Dickens at Christmas virtual tour
DESCRIPTION:What it is\nZoom tour: Saturday 26 December 2020\, 11am. Cost: £7.50. \nJoin leading London historian Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London\, cruise ships speaker and one of the most prolific tour guides in the country\, on this original festive Zoom tour-talk around the great author’s London haunts. \nEd Glinert writes: “I have devised this tour so that the public can share my enthusiasm for London’s greatest author\, whose works I constantly read and whose sojourns around the capital I have detailed in various books\, such as Penguin’s Literary Guide to London and Penguin’s London Compendium. \nI am now running New London Walks to offer residents of and visitors to the world’s greatest city new and exciting insights into its remarkable history. In view of the current restrictions\, I have devised this Zoom version of the walking tour we did last Boxing Day in which we explore Charles Dickens’s dillies and dallies around Bloomsbury\, Covent Garden and Strand\, starting at the site of the abominable Blacking Factory by the Thames where he worked as a child and ending at his Doughty Street repos\, now the Dickens Museum. This format means we can cover so much more ground than possible on a normal walking tour…the schlep to Doughty Street would defeat even Sydney Carton wandering\, stalking\, drifting or creeping through the streets! \nWhere we go\n\nLincoln’s Inn Hall\, where the Lord High Chancellor sites at the very heart of the fog.\nThe Old Curiosity Shop on Portsmouth Street\, near Lincoln’s Inn Fields.\nWarren’s Blacking Factory on Hungerford Stairs\, “a crazy\, tumble-down old house\, abutting the river\, literally overrun with rats” (okay\, it’s gone now)\, where in 1823 Dickens\, aged 12\, earned the princely sum of six shillings a week pasting labels on jars of shoe polish.\nThe Gin shops of Drury Lane as featured in Sketches By Boz.\nBow Street magistrates’ Court where the Artful Dodger demanded his “priwileges”.\n48 Doughty Street\, Bloomsbury where Dickens lived and completed Oliver Twist\, and wrote Nicholas Nickleby\, and which is now the Charles Dickens Museum.\n\n…and much much more  \nAnd why \nDickens IS Christmas. \nWithout London’s greatest author we would have no ghosts of Christmas past\, no Christmas presents\, no Christmas cards\, no Christmas tree. Oh\, all right\, we might have had some of those\, but we definitely wouldn’t have had this tasty Turkey-time morsel from A Christmas Carol. \n“No fog\, no mist; clear\, bright jovial\, stirring\, cold; cold\, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh\, glorious! Glorious!” \nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London\, leaves Scrooge to freeze with his humbug to lead this festive tour around Charles Dickens’s central London haunts\, from Lincoln’s Inn (where at the very heart of the fog\, sits the Lord High Chancellor) to Covent Garden and beyond. \n How do I book?\nThis tour is available to book through Eventbrite \n 
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/charles-dickens-at-christmas-virtual-tour/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours,Virtual Tours
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201225T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201225T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T122936
CREATED:20201116T095443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T115701Z
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SUMMARY:Samuel Pepys Christmas Morning 1660 Virtual Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join leading London historian Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s London Compendium\, cruise ships speaker\, and one of the most prolific tour guides in the country\, on this festive Zoom tour-talk he invented around the great diarist’s London haunts. \nEd Glinert writes: “I devised this tour in 2004 and ran it for several years for the London Walks company. I am now running New London Walks to offer residents of and visitors to the world’s greatest city new and exciting insights into its remarkable history. In view of the current restrictions\, I have devised this original Zoom version\, which means we can cover the entire sweep of the capital – all Pepys’s haunts\, from Downing Street to the Tower – that we could never get to without walking all day!” \nWhere we go\n\n10 Downing Street – Long before the PM’s house was built Samuel Pepys lived here on what was Axe Yard and was where he began his diary on the 1st of January 1660.\nBanqueting House\, Whitehall – Where the 15-year-old Pepys claimed he was in the crowd that saw Charles I being executed in 1649. Sure\, and he probably saw the Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall as well.\nSalisbury Court\, off Fleet Street – Where Pepys was born in 1632 or 1633\, depending on how you view the calendar\, and where in 1658 he underwent a simple operation for kidney stones – without anaesthetic – by eating a supper of fresh meat\, chicken\, pigeon\, eggs\, butter\, barley and water-gruel\, and drinking a mixture of almond\, cucumber and melon: the classic 17th century smoothie.\n8 Drury Lane – Here during the Plague in June 1665 Pepys saw “two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors and ‘Lord have mercy upon us’ writ there”. Aren’t you pleased you live at a time when such epidemics have disappeared?\nThe church of All Hallows Barking by the Tower At the start of the Fire of London in September 1666 Pepys climbed the steeple to see “the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw; every where great fires\, oyle-cellars and brimstone\, and other things burning”.\nThe Tower of London – At the height of his career in 1679\, serving Charles II\, Pepys was falsely accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower. There was a plot against him\, eagerly taken up by his Whig enemies.\n\nAnd why\nIt’s 1660\, not 2020. Christmas has been banned by the Puritan government\, not by Boris Johnson. \n“All persons are to take heed and remember that Christmas Day and all other superstitious festivals are utterly abolished.” \nIt wasn’t a nasty virus or the Great Plague\, which was five years off\, that saw this dastardly decree\, but the Cromwell puritan clan who deemed Christmas to be both pagan and Popish – unchristian. Well\, at least there was some common sense in London. Earlier that year\, on the 1st of January no less\, a teller in the Exchequer under George Downing began writing a diary. \n“Blessed be God\, at the end of the last year I was in very good health\, without any sense of my old pain\, but upon taking of cold.” \nIt was a private secret diary\, not for public consumption\, because he was just a minor civil servant called Samuel Pepys. Yet by accident Samuel Pepys’s diary saw the light of day many years later to become the best\, the funniest\, the sharpest and most human account of that turbulent period of English history. A million words recording the era that saw the short-lived post-monarchy commonwealth of the Cromwells replaced by the restoration of the throne. It was the time of the Great Plague\, the Fire of London and the threat of Dutch invasion – and Pepys was right in the middle of it as he rose through the ranks to become MP for Harwich\, president of the Royal Society\, and chief secretary to the Admiralty while remaining a high-living philanderer and bon vivant. \nHow do I book?\nThis tour is available through Eventbrite \n*** \nEd Glinert* Manchester tour guide & historian\, www.newmanchesterwalks.com* Penguin author* 32 years experience as a journalist (founder City Life\, production editor Mojo\, 10 years with Private Eye)
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/samuel-pepys-christmas-morning-1660-virtual-tour/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours,Famous People,Virtual Tours
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