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We'd love to hear from you! Planning a London trip and looking for hidden London pubs beyond the usual tourist crowds? Our podcast shorts series is perfect for quick travel research tasks and a great way of supporting London pubs. In this episode of Publicity – Your London Travel Toolkit, Love Letter to London Pubs shorts, we explore The London Apprentice in Old Isleworth. Getting ready to reopen after a major refurbishment by Greene King aimed at preserving the building’s Tudor and Georgian ...

We'd love to hear from you! This bonus episode is our love letter to Ye Olde Mitre, one of London's most hidden and historically rich pubs. When we visited recently, the bar staff gave us one of the most friendly welcomes we've experienced in a busy city center pub. So, this episode is our return gift to you. Tucked down a narrow alleyway off Hatton Garden, accessible only through a passage barely wide enough for two people. We trace the site's remarkable 700-year backstory. From a medi...

We'd love to hear from you! A preview of Episode 12 – King’s Cross, Up Down Up Again. The episode traces the neighborhood's arc from quiet rural crossroads to Victorian industrial powerhouse. We move through post-war decline and the grim decades of the 70s–90s, to the dramatic revival anchored by Eurostar's move to St Pancras in 2007. We end with Argent's massive £5 billion regeneration project. As always, the area's surviving pubs frame the whole story. We also make a broad...

We'd love to hear from you! Step into the bustling streets of old East London, where the air is thick with history and the scent of freshly baked pies, and discover the story behind one of the city’s most iconic comfort foods, now part of Britain's "Heritage Foods Movement". This bonus episode serves up more than just pie and mash—it’s a journey through generations of grit, flavor, and tradition, from eel-slinging street vendors to the tiled institutions still standing today. You’ll mee...

We'd love to hear from you! In 1850, a Victorian journalist walked into Bermondsey and wanted to head back for the door. His senses assaulted by raw hides, tanning pits, human urine, pigeon and dog feces, slaked lime, and ground oak bark. The unmistakable fragrance of a neighborhood that had been turning dead animals into leather for five hundred years. Today it's barley malt over dead cows and dog feces, a significant upgrade for the community. How do you get from bovines to barley, co...

We'd love to hear from you! It's all about London's great street food in this episode. We start with a famous Earl who named the humble sandwich. John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, is remembered not for his long career at the Admiralty, nor for giving Hawaii its first English name, but for a piece of bread with meat inside it. We follow that legacy into the broader story of London's street food - from Roman oyster shells in the mud of Londinium to the eel pie shops of the Victorian ...

We'd love to hear from you! We're off to Marylebone - using the neighborhood's dark origins as a launch pad for a story of spectacular reinvention. Our walk begins at Marble Arch, where a barely-noticed pavement plaque marks the site of Tyburn Tree - London's primary gallows for nearly six hundred years and the execution ground for over 50,000 people. From there, we traces how the area shed its grim "Tyburn" identity through a medieval rebranding around a church dedicated to St Ma...

We'd love to hear from you! In this episode, we rip the polished Instagram filter off Covent Garden and ask a far more interesting question than “Where’s the Apple Store?” We ask what scene this place is playing. Beneath the street performers and opera crowds lies a district that has shape-shifted more times than London itself. From monastic vegetable patch to aristocratic social experiment, from chaotic fruit-and-veg battlefield to theatreland playground of actors, rogues, and bare-knu...

We'd love to hear from you! Brutalist estates, haunted pubs, Roman temples, and a river you've never seen—Part 2 of our world exclusive Walbrook walk dives deep into the hidden heart of London. Join Expat Andy as he traces the true, long-lost path of the Walbrook to its mouth on the Thames. Along the way: buried tributaries, literary ghosts, the city’s first coffee shop, and a riverside mystery that ends at a freight terminal. This isn’t just history—it’s a revelation beneath your feet....

We'd love to hear from you! A guided walk through 275 years of urban failure, reinvention, and the long, slow gentrification of Notting Hill - told through the pubs that developers built first (usually before they went bankrupt). From gravel pits and pig farms to punk gigs and overpriced pints, we trace how these buildings reveal the neighborhood’s real story. Featuring forgotten racetracks, bad drainage, Joe Strummer, Tsarist Russia, and one wildly confident pub that stood alone ...

We'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Publicity - London By Pub - the travel podcast that helps you actually experience London, not just tick off landmarks. In this debut episode, we crack open Chelsea - London’s posh-meets-punk neighborhood -where our host Andy (a British expat now based in Miami) retraces a trip that should’ve been epic… but ended in full-on travel regret. With Expat Andy on board, we’ll get to revisit Chelsea but with a walking tour of five iconic pubs, each one a p...