I give talks and lectures on London history, lost London rivers, the vanished city and on walking. I have talked at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Stoke Newington Literary Festival, Essex Book Festival, Salon for the City, UCL Urban Lab, Open East and the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society among many others, and have given a Royal Geographical Society Monday Night lecture.
Do get in touch if you would like to arrange a talk.
Coming up
Making the Most of London’s Waterways, Future of London Conference, 20 June
Past highlights
New Angle Prize event, Ipswich Institute, 2019
Portrait of an Anxious Nation – discussion with James Meek at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, 25 May 2019. Review in the Eastern Daily Press
Books and Beyond – a cabaret of words and music at Wivenhoe Bookshop, 2019
A Book Brunch at the Red Lion Bookshop, Colchester, 2019
Pop-Up Essex Writers House at Metal, Southend, 2019
Crossing Borders at the Essex Book Festival, Harwich, 2019
Battersea WI, 2019
Chalfont St. Giles Literary Society, 2019
Mycenae Local History Group, 2019
Penned in the Margins Summer Party, 2018
Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, 2018
Friends of the Geffrye Museum, 2018
Camden Tour Guides, Somers Town, 2018
Owl Bookshop, Kentish Town, 2018
Writing London, London Society, 2017
Thames 21 Volunteer Celebration, Prospect of Whitby, Wapping, 2016
City of Dust launch, Westminster Reference Library, 2016
Windows into Protest: Windrush Square (film), 2016
Kerb Crates, King’s Cross, 2016
Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local History Society, 2016
The Booth Maps – Monocle Radio interview, 2016
Love the Lea Late, 2016
The Fleet Sewer, 2015
The Doctor Who Show, Rivers of London Special, 2015
Something Understood, Radio 4, 2015
Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, 2015
Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 2015
London is Changing, 2015
Wandsworth Heritage Festival, 2015
The Last Tuesday Society, 2015
Caught by the River: Thames, 2015
London Wildlife Trust, 2014
Lost London River Geek-Off, 2014
Walking Methodologies Roundtable, UCL Urban Lab, 2014
Salon for the City No.11 – London Opiate, 2013
Salon for the City No.6 – London Under, London Over, 2013
Open East – Caught By the River, Olympic Park 2013
Shall We Gather at the River? Faber Social 2013
London On Foot, 2012
Walking London’s Lost Rivers, Royal Geographical Society Monday Night Lecture, 2012
South East London Folklore Society, 2012
Treadwell’s, 2011
