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New Online Talk – a history of London in five buildings + places

20/09/2025 donbrown 0

Join me on November 4 for an online talk in aid of Prostate Cancer UK and Brain Tumour UK. This winter I will be doing […]

Join me for some online talks this winter

08/09/2025 donbrown 0

As the summer slowly decays and the autumn evenings start to settle in, it’s time to think of gathering round the glowing embers of your […]

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The Great Fire of London – Online Talk

27/08/2025 donbrown 0

Earlier this year I revived the idea of the online talk that we all grew to love/hate during lockdown. Much to my surprise there still […]

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Most secret: the story of the Bletchley Park codebreakers (video of online talk)

30/11/2023 donbrown 0

Discover the secrets of Bletchley Park’s codebreakers & the cracking of Enigma in this online talk. All ticket money goes to The Brain Tumour Charity […]

A History of London – free talk recording

27/11/2023 donbrown 0

Last week I did a Zoom talk for 40 or so people as a fundraiser for Prostate Cancer UK. Called “a history of London in […]

The Sutton Hoo treasure

01/02/2022 donbrown 0

In 1938 a Suffolk woman called Edith Pretty asked a local archaeologist Basil Brown (no relation unfortunately) to excavate a series of mounds that were […]

National Covid Memorial Wall

22/11/2021 donbrown 0

Along the Albert Embankment wall of St Thomas’ Hospital, directly over the Thames to the Houses of Parliament is an incredible piece of public guerrilla […]

Ghost stories! Spooky London tales for Hallowe’en

29/10/2021 donbrown 0

Another free online talk for you. Me and the rest of the gang at UKToursOnline did one of our ‘chats’ yesterday evening where we talked […]

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Video: a tour of Parliament Square

11/08/2021 donbrown 0

Join me for a video tour of Parliament Square courtesy of UKToursOnline. We’ll look into Westminster Hall, catch up with the statues in the Square, […]

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Video: Square Stories – favourite squares in London, Oxford and Bath

09/08/2021 donbrown 0

Another video chat with the gang from UKToursOnline. This time we get competitive looking at “squares” – there are the London garden squares including Russell […]