{"title": "The Hidden Corners of London with Jack Chesher", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "place": "Southwark Cathedral", "address": "Cathedral Street, London", "price": "from £12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/london"], "description": "An evening talk at Southwark Cathedral exploring London's hidden corners. Bestselling author Jack Chesher, creator of Living London History, shares secret stories, mysteries and forgotten history from his book London: The Hidden Corners, from Soho's alleyways to the medieval remains of Moorgate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-hidden-corners-of-london-with-jack-chesher-47466/", "official_url": "https://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/1911-the-hidden-corners-of-london-with-jack-chesher/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "place": "Southwark Cathedral", "address": "Cathedral Street, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "St Olave Lecture: Bringing Samuel Pepys and Restoration London to Life", "start": "2026-11-10T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Olave Hart Street", "address": "Hart Street 8, EC3R 7NB London", "price": "£5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/early-modern", "literature/biography"], "description": "A lecture at St Olave Hart Street exploring the world Samuel Pepys inhabited in Restoration London. 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The London Museum runs it, with a guide leading visitors past famous landmarks and into the fascinating and surprising stories behind them. The tour explores the lives of past Londoners, covering the dissolution of the monasteries, the plague and public executions, and hears stories of William Wallace, Henry VIII and even Sherlock Holmes. 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It features John Rogers, a psychogeographer, writer and filmmaker who has spent more than two decades walking and documenting the city's overlooked landscapes. In the book he walks some of London's most storied but rarely acknowledged watercourses, from the Yeading Brook's western marshes to a lost river in Leytonstone, trying to find a way to hear their tales. His earlier books include This Other London and Welcome to New London, and his films include London Overground, made with Iain Sinclair.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-confessions-of-a-london-river-hunter-by-john-rog-41519/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-confessions-of-a-london-river-hunter-by-john-rogers/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea02c1ca3087743d83b6212fd856e7bb41240700869a7458981b5b59807468b6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hidden Gem History Group", "start": "2026-11-14T10:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "place": "North Ockendon: St Mary Magdalene", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "Hidden Gem History Group meets at St Mary Magdalene's Church Hall in North Ockendon to explore the history and heritage of this rural village, which the church has been at the centre of for a thousand years. The group behind it welcomes anyone with an interest or passion for the area to its open meetings, where all may attend and contribute and refreshments are available. Past talks have covered topics such as St Cedd's well, early Pilgrim Way routes, the Batt sisters buried in the churchyard, and the Mardyke River.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hidden-gem-history-group-86107/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74848eb2bfff5cf89dd9c520fb70fe72f9858412bcb930cec92916315fa883bd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exhibition Launch: Penny Dreadfuls", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall Library", "address": "Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A launch event opening the new exhibition \"Penny Dreadfuls: How Londoners learned to enjoy reading\" at Guildhall Library. Senior Librarian Melanie Srong gives a curator's talk on the themes of the exhibition and the stories behind the literature on display. The event lasts two hours and is in person, with access through the Aldermanbury entrance to Guildhall Library/The London Centre. 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Jamie Paterno Ostmann, a researcher and PhD candidate working for Historic Royal Palaces, the National Trust and Durham University, will give the talk, and the church's death and burial registers recording her death will be available to view before and after. The event is supported by St Nicolas Church and organised by the Friends of St Nicholas Church, with refreshments available when doors open at 6.30pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/talk-45733/", "official_url": "https://stnicholaschiswick.org/events/talk-thursday-9-november-7pm/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Women of Southwark Tour - The Untold Story", "start": "2026-11-11T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Southwark Cathedral", "address": "Cathedral Street, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A guided tour exploring the lives of women in Southwark and the impact they have made on the local area and beyond. It is run by Southwark Cathedral and covers women connected to the cathedral, from Victorian pioneers such as Octavia Hill and Isabella Gilmore to benefactors like Dorothy Appleby and Elizabeth Newcomen, who funded help for poor people in south London. The tour also uncovers the impact of Queen Mary I on the cathedral's life. It is open to people who live or work in Bankside.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/women-of-southwark-tour-the-untold-story-41036/", "official_url": "https://betterbankside.co.uk/events/11-november-women-of-southwark-tour-the-untold-story/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lantern Walks - Secret and wonderful hidden quarters of Magical Marylebone!", "start": "2026-11-15T16:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T18:45:00Z", "place": "Baker Street", "address": "Marylebone Road, London, London", "price": "£10 cash/card on the day (half price if combined with the Notting Hill walk)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A lantern evening walk of about 2.8 miles through the hidden quarters of Marylebone, held in a circular route from Baker Street and ending at the Metropolitan Bar. It is hosted by Kevin C., Super Organizer of the Meetup group Walks and Tours, whose London walks have explored Secret London for 15 years. Along the way walkers pass cobbled alleyways, historic pubs, Marylebone church, an old cemetery, and places linked to Meghan & Harry, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and others. It costs £10 cash or card on the day, with half price if combined with a daytime Notting Hill walk, and participants are asked to arrive at least 15 minutes early by the Sherlock Holmes Statue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lantern-walks-secret-and-wonderful-hidden-quarters-of-magica-102783/", "official_url": "https://www.meetup.com/walks-and-tours/events/316558535/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Tim Downie in conversation with Rachel Parris: Rituals: A Folk Journey Through The Seasons", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Backstory", "address": "Balham High Road 71, SW12 9AP London", "price": "£15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "An evening conversation at Backstory, a shop on Balham High Road in London. Actor and podcaster Tim Downie, known for Upstart Crow and Toast of London and host of the Folklands podcast, talks to author, actor and comedian Rachel Parris about his new book Rituals: A Folk Journey Through The Seasons. The book explores the strange and beautiful places that have shaped British folklore, journeying through the seasons and encountering wonders from horn dances to blazing tar barrels. Doors open at 7pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tim-downie-in-conversation-with-rachel-parris-rituals-a-folk-90374/", "official_url": "https://backstory.london/products/10th-november-7-30pm-tim-downie-in-conversation-with-rachel-parris-rituals-a-folk-journey-through-the-seasons", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f7b43da8f12728f8f06770ac57573d549f089594b61ffcb473b21952de5b4e7e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ghost Tours- The Barbican After Dark", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Barbican Centre (Cinema)", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "From £8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history/ghosts"], "description": "Ghost Tours - The Barbican After Dark is an atmospheric after-dark walking tour through the Barbican Centre, exploring the site's hidden past and the unexplained experiences reported by Barbican staff. It is hosted at the Barbican Centre, whose Brutalist building stands over nearly two thousand years of history, from Roman forts and burial grounds to plague pits, fire, war and ruin. Participants hear stories of mysterious voices, fleeting figures and strange encounters in spaces that feel different once the building falls silent. The tour concludes in the Library Stack Rooms, a space surrounded by decades of stories, sightings and unexplained events.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ghost-tours-the-barbican-after-dark-37585/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "As Old as the Hills: Britain’s Dark Folklore with Green Lung’s Tom Templar & Thomas Williams FSA", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "Burlington House, Piccadilly", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/folklore"], "description": "An evening talk at the Society of Antiquaries on Britain's dark folklore, from occult practitioners and haunted barrows to Victorian cemeteries, bodies hidden in the wych elm and the devil himself. Tom Templar, lead singer of the hard rock band Green Lung, is in conversation with historian Thomas Williams FSA, author of Viking Britain and Lost Realms, about his lyrical inspiration and Britain's ancient and uncanny past. The evening includes a display of the Society's antiquarian collections on the history and folklore of the British landscape, and the ticket includes a complimentary drink.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/as-old-as-the-hills-britains-dark-folklore-with-green-lungs-38658/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/dark-folklore/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c776be5422a3375d7afb81a481e5f0e2e60338e925f491013039ca515ccdf21-600.webp"}, {"title": "Exhibition – Londoners on Trial: Crime, Courts and the Public 1244-1924", "start": "2026-03-09T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-25T00:00:00Z", "place": "The London Archives", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history"], "description": "This is a free exhibition about the history of law and order in London, from the medieval period to modern times. Hosted at The London Archives, it uses historical records to explore how the growing city was governed and Londoners' enduring fascination with true crime. Visitors can review cases involving figures such as Moll Cutpurse, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard, Oscar Wilde and Sylvia Pankhurst, and see how records illuminate lives, homes and streets of London's past. Paid curator-led tours of the exhibition run on selected dates.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-londoners-on-trial-crime-courts-and-the-public-12-37563/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af77e44b2b3c97fc7ab7ca2082948cdb2273965739813a3760df7d9cd9a59eeb-2000.webp"}]}