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. Here’s what recent satisfied customers had to say:
A really excellent talk, full of information and insights, presented in a very engaging and accessible style.
The whole event was a tour de force, with Tom’s superb presentation.
Past talks…
Salon for the City 100: London Stars, February 2023
London Guildhall Library: Lesser Known Lost Rivers, September 2022
Lost Rivers Club (chairing): London Rivers Weeks, September 2022
London Guildhall Library: Vanished City, July 2022
RAFT x Salon for the City: Vanished Places, June 2022
Department for Transport, April 2022
Streatham Women’s Institute, February 2022
Open University History Society, January 2022
Ruislip, Northwood and Eastcote Local History Society, November 2021
London Rivers Book Club, October 2021
London Guildhall Library: Lost Rivers, September 2021
Transport Museum After Dark, July 2021
Westminster Archives, May 2021
Hedgerley Historical Society, April 2021
London Canal Museum volunteers, April 2021
Westminster Guides, September 2020
Salon for the City: the Lost River, June 2020
Primrose Hill Community Library, January 2020
Streatham Society, January 2020
London Transport Museum Open Weekend, September 2019
Southwark Pensioners Centre, September 2019
Brockwell Park Women’s Institute, July 2019
Salon for the City: Lost Hospitals, June 2019
Future for London Waterways Conference, June 2019
Portrait of An Anxious Nation, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, May 2019
New Angle Prize Shortlist Event, Ipswich Reading Room, May 2019
Chalfont St Giles Literary Society, April 2019
Pop-Up Essex Writers House, METAL Southend, March 2019
Crossing Borders, Essex Book Festival, March 2019
Mycenae House Local History Group, March 2019
Westminster Borough Planning Department, Vanished City, September 2018
Penned in the Margins Summer Party, June 2018
Westminster Borough Planning Department, Lost Rivers, March 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
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