Different world cultures approachs to health & medicine. 20th Century European approaches to health compared with Oceanic, North American, African, and South East Asian approached to wellbeing
Itinerary
Meets Dr Barry
First stop (for any latecomers)
Bloomsbury Square (centre)
End points/nearest Underground station
British Museum/Holborn 4 mins
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
British painting from 16-19 th Century Hilliard to Landscapes of Turner Constable. “20th Century art of Sickert to Hockney. Young British artists 21st Century
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
The National Gallery has one of the world’s greatest collection of Old Masters on themes of Power and Passion including Van Dyck, Ruben’s, and Rembrandt, Constable and Turner. Stubb’s famous ‘Whistlejacket’ dominates the Gallery. The French Impresssionists include Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers, and Seurat’s pointillist ‘Bather’s’.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
Partheneon Gallery Greek vase painting Roman portraits
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
Land of the Rising Sun. Behold the early Dogu ceramics (that influenced a famous David Bowie costume, let alone Manga comic stories). And those cruel yet elegant Samurai swords and unique armour (looking at them is to have Shogun rear up in front of you, the real thing, stern and glowering, not just a lapdog of a name in a history book). And then, point counterpoint, those cruel swords melt into geishas in woodblock prints from the ‘Floating world’ pleasure quarters of Edo (Tokyo). And just over here, the most refined laquerware (a tale of gold dust blown onto the wet lacquer through a straw). And round this corner, Zen Buddhism. Short of flying half way round the world it’s as close as you can get to that world view, that mindset, that outlook, that way of making sense of this existence. The recreated tea house with its extraordinary rituals – it’s not just an exhibit, it’s a Zen Buddhism experience.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
Stunning 7th Century buried treasures possibly of the Anglo Saxon KIng Redwald from the Dark Ages . Gold buckle, garnets from Sri Lanka Discovered weeks before outset of WWII. Amazing story of a buried ship in Suffolk. Glittering helmet. Cate Blanchett due to film as ‘The Dig’ playing Mrs Pretty who owned the land and gifted the treasures to the British Museum. Intrigue betrayal and broken marriages among the archaeologists.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
Follow Dr Barry Walsh in footsteps of the famous surgeon Dr John Hunter through the streets of the West End, Covent Garden and end in the remarkable Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The infatuation of a doctors wife for the sculptor of Eros begins our tour and ends mournfully in the Royal College of Surgeons. The Windmill School of anatomy in the 18th Century was where the Hunter brothers taught dissection on bodies provided by the Resurrection men. Chasing down the body of an Irish Giant for dissection and seeing where John Hunter’s house and museum stood in Leicester Square. In the Hunterian museum we will see the skeleton of the Irish Giant and also that of the tiny Sicilian fairy. Other displays show Hunter’s studies into the human body and made surgery a science.
Itinerary
Meet Dr Barry
Piccadilly Circus, Eros Exit
First stop (for any latecomers)
Great Windmill St near Windmill theatre
Ends at
Hunterian Museum Lincoln's In Fields 3 mins walk from Holborn underground station.
Brings to life many Old Testament figures (Ahab Jehu Hexekiah) linked to archaeological treasures. The worlds greatest Assyrian sculptures and Egyptian pharaoes (Ramses II). The famous discovery of the ‘Flood Tablet discovered by George Smith based on the Gilgamesh Epic pre Noah in the Bible. Babylonian History with items linked to Nebuschadnezzar and Belshazzars feast. Persian history with Cyrus the Great.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
David from London Walks describes this fascinating medical tour – Anyone up for making the rounds with Dr. Barry in Southwark? Grab your stethoscope and white coat and let’s go. It’s a tale – and trail – of rhino horns and the King’s Evil and scurvy limeys and barber surgeons and London’s only forensic medicine museum and a mock below knee amputation performed in the Old Operating Theatre (the world’s only surviving Georgian operating theatre). And what a setting. Medical districts don’t come any older. Or more distinguished. Let alone more fun and fascinating. Bears repeating: Barry’s making the rounds today in Southwark, London’s doppelganger on the other side of the river. It’s as old as London itself. So, yes, there’s been medical mayhem, malpractice and molestation going on here for 2,000 years. That’s the rough. But there are plenty of diamonds here as well. Inspirational work, important work, breakthrough work. It’s a rich repast, a medical mix to make merry in. What’s not to like about a rough and ready London neighbourhood that was famous for prisons and brothels and inns and theatres and hospitals. One of which – one of the hospitals that is – goes back nearly 1,000 years. In “the good old days” the place was run by the Matron, the Clerk and the Hospitaler, with the surgeon listed below the shoemaker. There was no physician on the staff until 1566. Difficult patients were confined in the stocks and nurses were disciplined at the whipping post. He who did not rise for church on Sunday got no dinner. Well, you get the idea. Fun walk. Fascinating area. And – always on our medical London Walks – the big plus: they’re guided by a doctor, a Public Health Physician.
There is no need to book to go on the Medical Southwark – Sawbones to Shard. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
Itinerary
Meet Dr. Barry
Meet Dr. Barry just outside the Fish Street Hill exit of Monument Tube.
The walk ends at the Old Operating Theatre, Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY
The walk ends at the Old Operating Theatre* in St. Thomas' Street, just round the corner from London BridgeTube (and Railway) Station.
*There's a small admission charge for the Old Operating Theatre visit.
