Please note the correct time for this event is as listed - 6pm - and not 7.45pm as some tickets suggest.
Join Ed Glinert on this atmospheric evening's walk as he explores the city's many and varied final resting places: cemeteries, graveyards, churchyards – and less official burial sites, from holes in the ground to concrete flyovers – giving us the full story of London and its dead.
London's Dead unearths some of the capital's most gruesome and intriguing stories: from the serene order of the capital's finest Victorian graveyards to the most horrific crimes committed in its ancient streets.
Here are the deaths of politicians and comedians, royals and spies, peasants and highwaymen. There are tragic deaths, accidental deaths, hoax deaths, pre-planned deaths, death while dancing, death from laughing. There is death by hanging, knifing, drinking, drowning, not to mention death by disease, explosion, poisoning and strangulation...
'During the Gordon Riots of 1780 the London mob stormed Langdale's Distillery in Holborn. As the raw spirit caught fire, a pillar of flame reached up to the sky, hot gin ran down the road and locals began to gorge themselves, screaming from the internal burns and keeling over dead drunk, or simply dead.'
Ed Glinert was born in Dalston, London. He has written for Private Eye, Radio Times and London's Time Out, and is the author of The London Compendium, Literary London and East End Chronicles. He leads a variety of walks for a major London walking tours company.
This walk starts at our store in Covent Garden. The walk will end back at the store with drinks with the author to help you recover from the chill!
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Tickets are £3 and should be purchased in advance in-store,
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or by email: sales@stanfords.co.uk.