I give talks and lectures on London history, lost London rivers, city walking, coastal landscape and plenty of things I’ve not thought of yet. I have talked at Caught by the River events, Salon for the City, Stoke Newington Literary Festival and UCL Urban Lab among others, and have given a Royal Geographical Society Monday Night lecture. I have also talked on Radio Four, the World Service, BBC London. You also watch me on film in the Fleet sewer, or listen to me be being interviewed for the Doctor Who Show.
Do email me if you would like to arrange an interview or talk.
Past talks…
Penned in the Margins Summer Party, June 2018
Camden Town: Dreams of Another London, Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, February 2018
Geffrye Museum, January 2018
Camden Town: Dreams of Another London, Owl Bookshop, October 2017
Tracing London’s Lost Rivers, Blackheath & Greenwich WI, September 2017
RH7 History Group, Lingfield, May 2017
Lost London Speedway talk, Transition Gallery, Hackney, April 2017
Writing London, February 2017
Thames 21 Volunteers, 2016
Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local History Society, 2016
Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods, Southwark Pensioners’ Forum, 2016
Love the Lea Late, 2016
Vanished City: London & the Blitz, Science Museum Lates, 2015
Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society, 2015
Vanished City, South East London Folklore Society, 2015
London Lost and Found, Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 2015
London is Changing, Conway Hall 2015
Histories of the Wandle, Wandsworth Heritage Festival, 2015
Vanished City, The Last Tuesday Society, 2015
Caught by the River: Thames, The Social 2015
London Wildlife Trust / Dulwich Society, 2014
Lost London River Geek-Off, Totally Thames Festival 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 – By the River, Olympic Park 2013
Shall We Gather at the River? Faber Social 2013
London On Foot, 2012
Lost Rivers film premiere (Caroline Bâcle, 2012), Greenwich Picturehouse, 2012
London’s Lost Rivers, South East London Folklore Society, 2012
Monday Lecture: Walking London’s Lost Rivers, Royal Geographical Society, 2012
London’s Lost Rivers, Treadwell’s Bookshop, 2011