An eclectic list. Can be done via Zoom, or in person. Please email colinwalkslondon@aol.com for more information and pricing.
Law and Lawyers
- Virtual walking tours of Legal London: These can be done on a mix and match basis, taken from the area marked by the four principal Inns of Court, the Royal Courts of Justice, and the Central Criminal Courts of Justice (Old Bailey)
- Inns of Literature: Writing connected with lawyers and Legal London, from Shakespeare to McEwan, done in the form of two virtual walking tours - (1) From Gray's Inn to Kingsway and (2) from Kingsway to the Temple.
- From the West End to the City – a Lawyer’s Life: An autobiographical trip through a career.
- Stories of the Law - Real Cases Brought to Life: I teach law to lawyers. But the stories are as good as the law.
- Deconstructing Holocaust Denial: a talk on the case of Irving v Lipstadt and Penguin Books (as made into the film, Denial): With Israel and Gaza front and centre, listen to what happened when a Holocaust denier sued an Jewish academic.
The City of London
- Developers and the City: Those City buildings, love'em or hate'em. But what about the characters who made them happen? And what makes property development tick?
- Catholics and the City: The story of the 1780 Gordon Riots
- Sir Horace Jones: The life of the City Surveyor whose design work has underpinned the heritage of the City.
Outside the Centre - there is more to London than the West End and the City
- The Park and the Green: An exploration of the area around Finsbury Park and Stroud Green
- From Fields to Focaccia: The evolution of Kentish Town
High life and Low Behaviour
- The Cleveland Street Scandal: Intrigue over the visitors to a West End brothel. Did they include a Royal?
- The Lives of W P Frith (19th c. painter): The clue is in the title. Frith, the master of the panoramic narrative, but with a flaky private life.