The Urban Rambler

30/07/2024

I’m leading my newest walking tour, “Walking the Fashion City (West End)” for Jewish Renaissance on Sunday 15th September.

Visit sites pertinent to the incredible contribution Jewish migrants have made to London becoming a fashion capital of the world 👗 👖 👠 🎩 💅

Find out the incredible survival story of famous wedding dress maker Netty Spiegel 👰‍♀️, the household name of this dapper man with a beard 🧔🏻‍♂️, the surprising makers of Jimi Hendrix’s iconic military jackets 🧥 and just why Tom Jones was walking down Carnaby Street with a Bond girl and a Cheetah 🐆…

Booking via:

jewishrenaissance.org.uk/events

12/12/2023

My latest project… Walking the Fashion City: East End

Booking available through the Museum of London

Visit places that tell the personal and moving stories of Jewish fashion in the East End on a walk with Nick Collinson, The Urban Rambler.

17/06/2023

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E80Fl9NsQXc

Another Pride Month celebration post 🌈

This is me and my Head of department - Dominique - speaking in depth about two objects on the q***r history tour I developed with young people at Rangers House in Greenwich. It’s so important to tell these stories for SO many reasons I don’t need to go into here…

(The music level is way too low)

Do visit the house if you get the chance - the collection of art is AMAZING 🤩

Join Dr Nick Collinson and Dr Dominique Bouchard at Ranger’s House in London as they discuss the LGBTQ+ connections of some of the fascinating objects there,...

21/05/2021

Talking about the Lord Beauchamp scandal in 1930 with Michael Portillo on the BBC 📺

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000w7fr

Series 13 Episode 4 - Deal to Margate 🏰🌊

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13/05/2021

🌈 🚨 New Q***r Talk 🚨 🌈

• Were Michelangelo and Leonardo the first modern g**s? 🤔 No idea? 🤷🏽 I didn’t either...

• Join me on Sunday to find out what I think...

• Gratuitous nudity guaranteed 🍑🍆 😉

🎫 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michelangelo-and-leonardo-the-first-modern-gay-men-tickets-150316313139

31/10/2020

This week I’ve been mostly looking at the London Wall with
This 3km long, 6m high and 3m wide feat of engineering was built by the Romans in around 200 AD and throws up all sorts of questions about Roman Britain. Like... why did they build a wall???

13/08/2020

Next virtual tour coming up next Sunday with the one and only Dan Vo - creator of q***r museum tours galore (V&A, University of Cambridge museums, and National Museum Cardiff)

🌈 👑 🏰

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-like-a-queen-a-look-at-britains-q***r-stately-homes-tickets-114458512492

Join two award winning tour guides for the q***rest look you'll ever get at Britain's stately homes!

01/07/2020

London on Lockdown: Westminster Bridge

24/06/2020

Find out what the Piccadilly Cramp was, where Quentin Crisp learnt to vamp and where the Bloomsbury set loved in triangles...

Celebrate pride with me this Saturday 27th June at 7pm (UK time), by joining my first ever Zoom tour - “The Bloomsbury Set and Q***r Old Soho: a tour of London’s gayest neighbourhoods...”

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-bloomsbury-set-and-q***r-soho-a-tour-of-londons-gayest-neighborhoods-tickets-107351782070

Find out where Quentin Crisp learned to vamp, and the Bloomsbury set "loved in triangles" on this tour of London's gayest neighborhoods!

20/06/2020

London on Lockdown 🔐... The West End

17/06/2020

London on Lockdown: Secret alleyways in The City
The City, or Square Mile, is the financial centre of the UK. It is cross-crossed by a crazy warren of narrow dark little alleyways and courtyards. A reminder that the City is based on an ancient medieval street pattern, laid out by the Saxons, who lived there when the Romans left 🤓

11/06/2020

SOUND ON 🔊

Enjoy the silence.

The river Thames at Tower pier, looking as flat and calm as it has ever been. Despite all the madness going on in the world there is beauty to be found round every corner.

Drink. It. In.

07/02/2020

Very excited to be leading a walk on the varied and q***r history of Vauxhall - this Sunday 9th Feb at 2pm - for the Museum of London

This exquisite map was drawn by artist and educator to chart the history of the area, centred on the iconic and has recently been acquired by the Museum of London
The walk is also being adapted by !!!
***rhistory

21/01/2020

Been urban rambling around Vauxhall recently, and it is FULL of surprises!

Doing a special walk for LGBTQ+🏳️‍🌈 history month for 🤩 on Sunday 9th Feb 🗓

If you’d like to learn the location of this sub-tropical urban jungle and hear about sordid goings on in the famous pleasure gardens, book a ticket 🎫 on the Museum of London website!

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08/08/2019

Anyone who’s been on my Death and Damnation walk will remember this pump.... 🐺 💀

Well now it looks like it’s being restored to its former glory 🙌

A notorious water pump at Aldgate was once praised for its clean clear water yet killed hundreds of Londoners - is currently being restored.