One of London’s most famous and infamous neighbourhoods. The unassuming Dr John Snow is famous for controlling the terrible outbreak of Cholera in Soho in 1854 by having the handle[ … ]

Tour of Medieval medicine in the Old City of London starting with the historic Apothecaries Hall in Blackfriars. Learn of the Four Humours (blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile). Rattus[ … ]

Themes of medical innovation and transport in Paddington. All changed. Changed utterly. I’m not talking about how Paddington has changed. I’m talking about how something that happened in Paddington that[ … ]

A tour of Royal London, Buckingham Palace, St James’s Park and Whitehall but with a medical twist Everything from a surfeit of lampreys (Henry 1st) to a headectomy (Charles 1st[ … ]

Children and childhood are the focus of this tour of the academic University quarter of London beginning with the Foundling Hospital for abandoned children. We will see Great Ormond Street[ … ]

The discreet world of private medicine is uncovered in the elegant Harley and Wimpole Street. How did this evolve in the 19th Century in the impossibly wealthy Howard de Walden[ … ]

Like a ward in a hospital. Dr. Barry’s making the rounds. Heroically. Not least because this is St. Giles (and Bloomsbury). St. Giles was the patron saint of lepers and cancer patients[ … ]

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[ … ]

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[ … ]

Great Ormond Street Childrens  Hospital chapel designed for children, Queens Square, Dr Mead, and a tour of the Enlightenment Gallery of British Museum, Dr Hans Sloane, Orrery  Obsidian tablets of[ … ]