London History
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Episodes: 164
Description
The London History Podcast uncovers the stories, people, and places that have shaped London over 2,000 years.
Hosted by historian & tour guide Hazel Baker, each 20–40 minute episode feels like an audio walking tour, covering everything from Roman Londinium and medieval guilds to Dickensian streets, Georgian scandals, and modern social change. Perfect for curious Londoners, visitors, students, and history lovers who want to go beyond the usual tourist highlights.
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161: Life Below Stairs
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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160: Soho Square’s Untold Stories: From Charles II to Mary Seacole
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May 29, 2026 |
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159: Unveiling London's Victorian Vampire Legacy
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May 22, 2026 |
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158: Finsbury Circus: Marsh to Metropolitan Marvels
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May 08, 2026 |
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157: From Factory Floor to Black Market: The Button Theft Scandal
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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156: Smithfield: London’s Theatre of Public Execution
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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155: Tea with Churchill: Amelia Earhart's London Story
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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154: White Conduit House: A Lost Pleasure Garden of Georgian Islington
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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153: A Celebration of Sound: The Festival of Britain's Musical Journey
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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BONUS EPISODE 2: The Great London Firsts Quiz
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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152: The Peasant's Revolt Part I - How it Came About
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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151: Love of Jane Austen in London
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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150: Cracking London's Financial Glass Ceiling: The Story of Mary Harris Smith
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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BONUS EPISODE Quiz Time: Uncovering London's Firsts Through History
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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149: Milner Square: Through a Hole in the Wall
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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148: Seven Dials in the Interwar Years
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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147: The Russian Flu of 1892
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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146: Jumping Tower Bridge
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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145: Feasting in London: History of Puddings, Pies & Markets
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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144: Who was Ebenezer Scrooge?
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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143: Oliver Twist's London
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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142: Monsters and Myths of London
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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141: Mocked in London Part 1: Umbrellas
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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140: The Iron Duke: Gadgets, Survival & Innovation
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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139. Downing Street
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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138. Dockside Gold: How Whales Transformed London
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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137. The Thames Tunnel
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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136. Ink & Industry
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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135. William Beckford
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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134. Organ Grinders of Little Italy
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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133. Royal Festival Hall's Organ
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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132. Suffragette or Suffragist - what would you have been?
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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131. Endell Street Military Hospital
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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130. Mudlarking Finds from Stuart London
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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129. 2 Temple Place
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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128. St James's Palace
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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127. Archie's Journey Through Dickens' London
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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126. Transatlantic Slave Trade and London
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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125. Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley in the Tower of London
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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124. History of Tite Street, Chelsea
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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123. Lord Mayor's Show
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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122. Haunted Underground Stations
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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121. Suffragette Annie Kenney
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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120. Doctor Who in London
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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119. Crystal Palace Football Club: How It Began
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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118. Francis Barber in Georgian London
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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117. Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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116. Caroline Crachami - The Sicilian Fairy
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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115. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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114. Buckingham Palace
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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113. The Gentleman's Magazine
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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112. Georgian London - Mudlarking Finds
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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111. London's Nightclubs in the interwar years
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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110. Crossness Pumping Station
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May 11, 2023 |
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109. Coronations - a Short History
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May 04, 2023 |
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108. Victorian Rat Catchers
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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107. Rats - a Victorian problem
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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106. The History of Afternoon Tea
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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105. St Pancras Station
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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104. Women's Rights Activist Annie Besant
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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103. Annie Besant and Nineteenth-Century London
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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102. Characters of Leadenhall Market
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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101. Henry VIII's Navy
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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100. Christmas Words
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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99. Royal Christmas Speech - a modern tradition
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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98. Christmas Puddings Through History
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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97. Temple Bar
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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96. Gas Lamps of Westminster
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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95. The Port of London in the Tudor period
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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94. Jack Sheppard - the Celebrity Thief
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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93. Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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92. Public Executions
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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91. Radical MP John Wilkes
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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90. Thomas Becket, Patron Saint of London
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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89. Thomas Arne in Covent Garden
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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88. The World's First Underground Railway
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May 26, 2022 |
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87. An Introduction to Georgian London
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May 12, 2022 |
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86. Shakespeare's London - Part 2
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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85. Shakespeare's London - Part 1
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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84. London Geology
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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83. Dutch Eels in Medieval London
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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82. Ballet in London
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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81: Voltaire in London
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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80. Disability in Tudor Times
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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79. Landladies of Georgian London
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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78. Georgian Lodgers and Landlords
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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77. The Delaunes of Blackfriars
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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76. Elizabeth and Mary: Tudor Cousins
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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75. The Christmas Cracker - A Victorian Invention
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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74. Christmas in 1950s and 60s London
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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73. Great Ormond Street Hospital
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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72. Drs William and John Hunter
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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71. Georgian Dentistry
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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70. Robert Hooke
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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69. Victorian Actor William Terriss
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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68. London's First Railway
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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67. London Street Names: Food Edition
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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66. London's Blackout
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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65. London Nursery Rhymes
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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64. Medieval Toilets in London
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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63. Hendrix & Handel in London
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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62. James Scott, the First Duke of Monmouth
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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61. Medieval London at the Museum of London
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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60. Virginia Woolf & The Bloomsbury Set
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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59. Big Ben
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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58. Greenwich Palace and Hospital
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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57. The Gerald Coke Handel Collection
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May 27, 2021 |
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56. London's Black Cab Legacy
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May 20, 2021 |
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55. The Regency Cook
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May 14, 2021 |
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54. The Festival of Britain
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May 06, 2021 |
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53. Benjamin Franklin in London
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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52. St George's Day
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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51. Walk Through London's Forgotten Places
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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50. History of Shoreditch
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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49. Myths of Regency Dress
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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48. Leper Houses in London
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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47. Victorian Dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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46. Beer, The Bard & Historic Buildings of Bankside
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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45. Drawing London's Buildings
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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44. Tudor London & John Stow
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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43. London Fog
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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42. How the National Gallery Began
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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41. London's Medieval Friaries
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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40. Charles Dickens in Greenwich
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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39. London's Frost Fairs
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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38. The Black Death: London's First Plague
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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37. Bridgerton & Regency London
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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36. Brexit and the City of London
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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35. A Tudor Christmas
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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34. London's Old Shops: Food and Drink
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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33. London's Pillar Boxes
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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32. Medieval Guilds
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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31. Abandoned London Underground Stations
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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30. Quirky Street Names - Little Britain
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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29. Victorian Harp Makers
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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28. A Georgian Ghost Story
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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27. The South Sea Bubble
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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26. The Seven Noses of Soho
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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25. The British Museum
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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24. The Walbrook in Roman London
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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23. London's Historic Pubs
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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22. The Havering Hoard
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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21: London Area Names - Animal Edition
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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20. The Great Fire of London - How It Began
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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19. London Coffeehouses
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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18. Victorian Photographs
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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17. The Proms & The Royal Albert Hall
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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16. Women in 1920s London
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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15. Old Movies Filmed in London
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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14: Postcards from London's Past
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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13. London Statues: Medical Women
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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12: The Old Operating Theatre Museum
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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11. London's Coffeehouses and Commerce
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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10. London's Folklore
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May 29, 2020 |
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9: Music Halls and Cabaret - from yesterday to today
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May 21, 2020 |
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8. The Monument to the Great Fire of London
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May 14, 2020 |
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7. True London Spy Stories
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May 08, 2020 |
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6. Lost London - Hockley in the Hole
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May 01, 2020 |
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5. Dragons of London
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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4. The Crown Jewels
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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3. Childhood Foods
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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2. Fantastic Beasts in London
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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1. Roman London: An Introduction
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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