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Christmas is constantly changing - before its Victorian reinvention, the Georgians turned it from a private affair to a more public celebration with a nostalgic interest in Old England. This week footprintsoflondon.com explores Christmas with @westminsterwalks.bsky.social & @robssmith.bsky.social

Christmas is constantly changing - before its Victorian reinvention, the Georgians turned it from a private affair to a more public celebration with a nostalgic interest in Old England. This week footprintsoflondon.com explores Christmas with @westminsterwalks.bsky.social & @robssmith.bsky.social

@westminsterwalks.bsky.social is back with her five star Foodie Christmas lights tour. Book at footprintsoflondon.com

Join me Sunday 2pm to discover how the #Hampstead artistic community rallied round to save #refugee #artists from Nazi Europe www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to... @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social @londonhistorians.bsky.social @londonist.com @isokongallery.bsky.social

From Soho to Stockwell & the Surrey Docks footprintsoflondon.com have 3 great walks tomorrow exploring a different side of #London @robssmith.bsky.social @stephensldn.bsky.social

Join me this Sunday 16th November on a tour of the fabulous building that is #WalthamForest Town Hall in #Walthamstow Tours are at 12 and 2. Small group size. Monthly apart from December www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/waltham-fo...

Join @robssmith.bsky.social tomorrow for tales of love, bravery, crime and friendship from Italian Clerkenwell 1830-1950 footprintsoflondon.com/live/eventbr...

We continue our celebration of Diverse London with an in person and a virtual walk today. Book at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social

Celebrate Diverse London in a series of walking & virtual tours. We'll explore the ethnic, religious & gender heritage of one of the world's most culturally rich cities. Book these walks & more at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @capitalwalks.bsky.social @walkingtalkinglon.bsky.social

Celebrate Diverse London in a series of walking & virtual tours. We'll explore the ethnic, religious & gender heritage of one of the world's most culturally rich cities. Book these walks & more at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @capitalwalks.bsky.social @walkingtalkinglon.bsky.social

Mark #Halloween this Friday with a walk round Bloomsbury to hear the ghost stories that fascinated the Georgians, & later, a virtual tour of the scary things in the British Museum. Book at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social

Mark #Halloween this Friday with a walk round Bloomsbury to hear the ghost stories that fascinated the Georgians, & later, a virtual tour of the scary things in the British Museum. Book at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social

At footprintsoflondon.com we explore all of London, not just the tourist traps. Join us this weekend. @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social @robssmith.bsky.social #lovelondon

At footprintsoflondon.com we explore all of London, not just the tourist traps. Join us this weekend. @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social @robssmith.bsky.social #lovelondon

he last time I did the walk, English walkers were shocked that Australians now celebrate convict-ancestors and Australian walkers didn't get why the English were shocked. In the day, no matter what convicts had done they were called drunks and prostitutes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Poor wages didn't reach to renting rooms, so dosshouses were essential. You could cook if you had ingredients and you could drink and smoke. It was close social life. Later you slept on a rope or sitting up unless you had extra pence to lie on the floor. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

Before the war in North America Britain transported convicts there. After losing that war it decided on Terra Australis as new penal colony, converting convicts into settlers whether they liked it or not. This Sunday 1300 Angel to Blackfriars. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Thanks to @londonist.com for listing this walk to follow folks mostly considered Nobodies: 2 girls nicked for stealing a piece of cloth in 1825, jailed in Newgate, sentenced to death but later transported for life to Botany Bay. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

The route uses streets the girls would have walked in 1825, past houses, shops, prisons and open spaces they'd have known. The walk is based on a Londoner's Ancestry research, and ship-records show how the girls fared in Australia. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

The figure of the New Woman threatened conventional ideas about ideal Victorian womanhood. At the centre was Bloomsbury, which you can explore with @Capitalwalks this weekend. This & more great London Walks bookable at footprintsoflondon.com @capitalwalks.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social

Doré came to London to work on a book The London Pilgrimage. He drew all sorts, depicting the poor as diverse and busy, whereas his rich look bland and dull. Odd commentary for a tourist? He spent a lot of time looking and his point of view shines through. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

The figure of the New Woman threatened conventional ideas about ideal Victorian womanhood. At the centre was Bloomsbury, which you can explore with @Capitalwalks this weekend. This & more great London Walks bookable at footprintsoflondon.com @capitalwalks.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social

A metal door covering the service yard entrance of an office near Oxford Street is an unexpected work of public art. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...

Thief and escape-artist Jack Sheppard spars with corrupt thief-taker Jonathan Wild in poor streets and night-cellars thronged with whores, spies and slum-tourists in a Beggar's Opera of a walk. 11 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

After delays, new trains finally arrive on the DLR

We have 8 great walks this weekend from Aldwych to Walthamstow, and the River to Regents Canal. Book at footprintsoflondon.com @westminsterwalks.bsky.social @robssmith.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social

We have 8 great walks this weekend from Aldwych to Walthamstow, and the River to Regents Canal. Book at footprintsoflondon.com @westminsterwalks.bsky.social @robssmith.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social

Discover two very different parts of #WalthamForest this weekend. #Chingford on Saturday at 12 and #Walthamstow on Sunday at 2. Close in distance but have v different histories. Both with @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social #LoveLondon www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/waltham-f...

Did you know that #Marylebone was once one of the poorest parts of London? You can explore it today with footprintsoflondon.com plus Croydon's lost railway, Samuel Johnson, & shipwrecks on the Thames. @robssmith.bsky.social

Tonight explore #London from the comfort of your armchair with these two virtual walks @robssmith.bsky.social Book at footprintsoflondon.com

Thanks @londonist.com for listing a walk in a part of the East End few Londoners know, from Tower Hill SE to the river to hear about poor working women selling old clothes, tools, food and sex to sailors and dockworkers. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tumult-of-...

It's time to explore London with footprintsoflondon.com We look at the Huguenots of #Shoreditch, the literary City & Southwark through the eyes of poor medieval women + a virtual tour of London's lost railways @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social

Thanks for our latest 5* @tripadvisor reviews. Today we explore Chingford's history, later we go under London's streets, discover #Albertopolis & the Great Fire of London. Book through footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @westminsterwalks.bsky.social

Thanks for our latest 5* @tripadvisor reviews. Today we explore Chingford's history, later we go under London's streets, discover #Albertopolis & the Great Fire of London. Book through footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @westminsterwalks.bsky.social

This weekend at footprintsoflondon.com our London walks take in the scandals of St James's, migration in Farringdon & the wonders of #Walthamstow @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social @westminsterwalks.bsky.social Book by clicking on the link.

London walks coming up: on Tuesday @robssmith.bsky.social takes a virtual tour of London's historic pubs, then migration in Farringdon, scandalous St James's, trade on the Thames & wonderful #Walthamstow @westminsterwalks.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social BOOK at footprintsoflondon.com

Thanks for the latest Tripadvisor reviews of our London walks. Coming up: real & virtual tours of the West End, #Marylebone, London's lost football grounds and more! Book at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @westminsterwalks.bsky.social

The always sold-out sex-industry walk is scheduled for a weekday in August: Friday the 15th. One stop is seen here in William Hogarth's picture of the Rose Tavern, showing Tom Rakewell, a lot of hookers and a woman undressing for a dance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/londons-se...

www.eventbrite.com/cc/rail200-4.... A great new collection of #london walks celebrating 200 years of rail travel. Join us in September @robssmith @westminsterwalks.bsky.social @stephensldn.bsky.social

'Side Quest' sightseeing cycle routes for London

www.eventbrite.com/cc/rail200-4.... A great new collection of #london walks celebrating 200 years of rail travel. Join us in September @robssmith @westminsterwalks.bsky.social @stephensldn.bsky.social

Explore #London with us. Walk the fantasy of classic English countryside come true in the city, how #Chingford became more than just a village + the City, Canary Wharf and more BOOK AT footprintsoflondon.com @westminsterwalks.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social

Thanks @Londonist for listing Wind in the Willows, a riverside walk that can't be bettered for beautiful houses, women's history, dreamy views and habitat for creatures of the river. Sat 19 July. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Thanks for our latest reviews! Starting tomorrow, our #Londonwalks take in political Mayfair, go under London's streets, explore the City gardens of the Blitz, scandalous Belgravia, and Rumpole. Book at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social