‘And Did Those Feet’

Welcome to ‘And Did Those Feet’.

This site is about London, archaeology, folklore, history, literary history, and museums.

These are the latest posts from my ‘Almanac of the Year’

My original blogspot blog is here .

Projects

And Did Those Feet has extensive experience of working in the heritage field. It has run several small museums, provided consultancy for many museums and leading heritage organisations. and managed many event programmes, lectures, walks, cultural study tours, and conferences.

Kevin Flude lectures at:

Central St Martins College on the M.A. For Narrative Environments course

I have worked on projects in collaboration with a range of organisations including the British Museum, Camden Council and the National Trust.

University of Westminster on the ‘Londinium to the Blitz’ module.

I recently gave a 10 week course on the History of Museums to Stevenage Art Society

I am a former Honorary Lecturer at UCL and Associate Lecturer at the University of Worcester on the Museums module.

More can be found on the heritage web site here:

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Walks&Tours

I have a huge range of Lectures, Guided Walks and Study tours which I do or have done. Currently, I am doing Study Tours for Road Scholar, Guided and Virtual Walks for London Walks and University courses for Central St. Martins.

Walks for London Walks

I do many guided and virtual walks for the marvellous London Walks. You can see my upcoming walks here:

Road Scholar Programmes

I am preparing a new season of study tours for Road Scholar with the programme:

 ‘Quintessential Britain’ which takes in London, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge, Cotswold, Chester, Wales, Haworth, York, Edinburgh and other places en route. 

Books

Books

Britain’s Kings And Queens in Bite-sized chunks‘ Michael O’mara Books, 2021 (Reprint). Kevin Flude   To buy click here

As of 7/12/2022 this has sold 135,772 copies in 7 editions and formats (not counting audio)

Divorced, Beheaded, Died …the History Of Britain’s Kings And Queens in Bite-sized chunks’ Michael O’mara Books, 2009. Kevin Flude   To buy click here

The Four Humours of Shakespeare‘ Feedaread.com, 2014.  Kevin Flude To buy  email kpflude AT anddidthosefeet.org.uk

Citisights Guide to London. Ten Walks through London’s Past’ Virgin Books. 1991. Kevin Flude and Paul Herbert (republished 2001 Authors Choice Press)

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In Their Own Words – A Literary Companion To The Origins Of London‘ D A Horizons, 2009.  Kevin Flude

To buy Kindle version click here.  To buy paperback click on the paypal link below or  email kpflude AT anddidthosefeet.org.uk

 

Cover of Kevin Flude's 'In their Own Words'
A Literary Companion to the origins of London

Archaeology – The Usborne Young Scientist’. Usborne 1984  Barbara Cork, Struan Reid, Iain Ashman, Dr Anne Millard and Kevin Flude

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Blog

St. Patrick’s Day, St Albans, Nicholas Fuentes, & Cats March 17th

St. Patrick has a very interesting autobiography (Confession).  He was captured by Irish pirates while living in a Romano-British Town.  He says his father was a Decurion and a Deacon which suggests elements of Roman political organisation continued.  No one knows the dates of St Patrick’s life but these titles suggested an early date perhaps …

Lawrence Oates: ‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’  March 16th 1912

A few weeks ago I went to Gilbert White’s House in Selborne. The naturalist’s House also houses the Oates Museum for Lawrence ‘Titus Oates’ and his uncle Frank. Oates was one of the ‘heroes’ I read about as a child. He epitomised what was sold as the British virtues of pluck, self-sacrifice, restraint. So, I have …

Beware the Ides of March March 15th

SOOTHSAYER: Caesar!CAESAR: Ha! Who calls?CASCA: Bid every noise be still; peace yet again!CAESAR: Who is it in the press that calls on me?I hear a tongue shriller than all the musicCry ‘ Caesar!’ Speak. Caesar is turned to hear.SOOTHSAYER: Beware the ides of March.CAESAR: What man is that?BRUTUS: A soothsayer bids you beware the ides …