The Past brought to Life
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I have not yet had time to load the vast content of the old site, but I am working on it! But you can read the original blog here .
This site is about London, archaeology, history and literary history, and more generally, heritage and museums.
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
He is currently running a project in conjunction with the British Museum on Room 3 and the Tokyo Olympics.
University of Westminster on the ‘Londinium to the Blitz’ module.
He is delivering a 10 week course on the History of Museums to Stevenage Art Society.
He is 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:
The good news is that I am doing my fourth season of Virtual Guided Walks. On the other hand I had to cancel my first season of outdoor walks since Covid. For more details of the programme click here:
I have a large repertory of walks, tours, and lectures in my backpack. I mostly give them for two excellent organisations. London Walks, and Road Scholar.
I will begin physical walks again on once it is allowed and safe.
My next study tour for Road Scholar is …. Well who knows, (hopefully Sept 2021) but ?
Physical Walks for London Walks
When they begin again I should be doing one every Thursday (from 7th Jan 2021) – an archaeology walk at 2.30 and a history and literature one in the evening at 6.30. I am sharing them with a colleague so I will be doing every other week.
Virtual Walks for London Walks
My new series of Virtual Walks begins on January 14th with a literary look at Roman London. More details of the programme click here:
Road Scholar Programmes
Once upon a safe time in the summer I gave a programme called ‘London’s Neighbourhoods‘ which is a great short tour of London with a day in the East End taking in the Street Art, a Day in the City, Greenwich and Bermondsey.
Also, I led one called ‘Quintessential Britain’ which takes in London, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge, Cotswold, Chester, Wales, Haworth, York, Edinburgh and other places en route.
A complete list of my repertory of walks. lectures, study tours can be found here:
Walks Archive:
I do various walks from time to time, nearly all for London Walks. (A list of all the walks. lectures, study tours I have given can be found here):
My first virtual walks took place every Sunday at 2pm in August 2020 and was:
Sunday 25th October 2020 The Archaeology and Culture of Roman London Virtual Walk. For more details click here.
Sunday 1st November 2020 The Decline and Fall of Dark Age London Archaeology Virtual Walk. For more details click here.
Sunday 8th November 2020 The Rebirth of Saxon London Archaeology Virtual Walk For more details click here.
Sunday 22nd November 2020 Flower of Cities All – Medieval London History & Archaeology Virtual Walk For more details click here.
Sunday 29th November 2020. The London of Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell Virtual Walk For more details click here.
Sunday 6th December 2020 The Financial City from Slavery to Hedge Fund Virtual Walk For more details click here.
Sunday 13 th December 2020 Myths, Legends and the Origins of London Archaeology Virtual Walk . For more details of this walk click here.
Mar 28 2.30 Victoria & Albert & Albertopolis. High Street Kensington Tube
April 18th 2.30 MedIeval London. Liverpool St Bishopsgate Exit top of escalator
Oct 31 2.30 pm The Archaeology of London Walk St. Paul’s Tube Exit 2.
Walks given recently:
Feb 22 2.30 Bermondsey – Archaeology & History. Bermondsey Tube
7.15 Southwark & Bankside Pub Tour. London Bridge Tube, Tooley St
Feb 1 2.30 Tower Hill to Rotherhithe Riverside Walk. Tower Hill Tube
Feb 2 10.45 Bishopsgate Ward Walk. Liverpool St Tube
Jan 25th 2.30 Wolf Hall London. Liverpool Street Tube
7.15 Blackfriars to Fleet St Pub Tour. Blackfriars Tube
Jan 26 2.30 Romans in London. Monument Tube
2019
Dec 21 10.30 London’s East End – The Peasants’ Revolt to Street Art. Aldgate Tube High Street Exit
2.30 Shakespeare’s London Locations – The places in the plays
Shoreditch High Street Overground Station
Jan 5 10.45 Myths & Legends & the Origins of London. Tower Hill Tube
Nov 23rd 2.30 The City and the Blitz. Moorgate West Tube. For more information
7.15 Hampstead Pub Tour Hampstead Tube For more information
Nov 30th 2.30 In Search of Saxon London. Moorgate Tube. For more information
7.15 Smithfield Pub Tour. Barbican Tube
Myths and Legends and the Origins of London on Saturday at Oct. 5 for details click here
City Backstreets Pub Tour at 7.15 Oct. 5 click here for details
The City and the Blitz on November 23
Decline and Fall of Roman London on Saturday at 2.30 Sept. 28 for details click here:
Chelsea Pub Tour Saturday at 7.15 Sept. 28 for details click here:
Jane Austen’s London 4 May 2019 7.15 Green Park Underground
For more details see blog post:
River Fleet Pub Crawl May 18
For more details see blog post:
Books
‘Archaeology – The Usborne Young Scientist’. Usborne 1984 Barbara Cork, Struan Reid, Iain Ashman, Dr Anne Millard and Kevin Flude
‘Citisights Guide to London. Ten Walks through London’s Past’ Virgin Books. 1991. Kevin Flude and Paul Herbert (republished 2001 Authors Choice Press)
To buy click here:
‘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 follow this link
‘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 pamphlet email kpflude AT anddidthosefeet.org.uk
For my fictional works click here
Saturday 20 February 2021 7.00pm A Virtual Walk around Medieval London following in the footsteps of its resident medieval poet – Geoffrey Chaucer One of the spectators at the Peasants Revolt was Geoffrey Chaucer, born in the Vintry area of London, who rose to be a diplomat, a Courtier and London’s Customs Officer. He lived …
I have recorded a short podcast as an introduction to my Chaucer’s London Virtual Walk for London Walks which is this Saturday at 7pm on 20 February 2021 To listen to the podcast press play
On Sunday at 6,30pm I am doing my Wolf Hall Virtual Boat Trip and Walk for London Walks. This is the podcast. The Walk explores the Palaces along the Thames and then takes a walk around the City charting the life and deaths of Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell, which are so vividly depicted in …