The Past brought to Life
Welcome to ‘And Did Those Feet’.
This site is about London, archaeology, folklore, history, literary history, and museums.
These are the latest posts from my ‘Almanac of the Year’
My original blogspot blog is here .
And Did Those Feet has extensive experience of working in the heritage field. It has run several small museums, provided consultancy for many museums and leading heritage organisations. and managed many event programmes, lectures, walks, cultural study tours, and conferences.
Kevin Flude lectures at:
Central St Martins College on the M.A. For Narrative Environments course
I have worked on projects in collaboration with a range of organisations including the British Museum, Camden Council and the National Trust.
University of Westminster on the ‘Londinium to the Blitz’ module.
I recently gave a 10 week course on the History of Museums to Stevenage Art Society
I am a former Honorary Lecturer at UCL and Associate Lecturer at the University of Worcester on the Museums module.
More can be found on the heritage web site here:
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I have a huge range of Lectures, Guided Walks and Study tours which I do or have done. Currently, I am doing Study Tours for Road Scholar, Guided and Virtual Walks for London Walks and University courses for Central St. Martins.
Walks for London Walks
I do many guided and virtual walks for the marvellous London Walks. You can see my upcoming walks here:
Road Scholar Programmes
I am preparing a new season of study tours for Road Scholar with the programme:
‘Quintessential Britain’ which takes in London, Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge, Cotswold, Chester, Wales, Haworth, York, Edinburgh and other places en route.
Books
‘Britain’s Kings And Queens in Bite-sized chunks‘ Michael O’mara Books, 2021 (Reprint). Kevin Flude To buy click here
As of 7/12/2022 this has sold 135,772 copies in 7 editions and formats (not counting audio)
‘Divorced, Beheaded, Died …the History Of Britain’s Kings And Queens in Bite-sized chunks’ Michael O’mara Books, 2009. Kevin Flude To buy click here
‘The Four Humours of Shakespeare‘ Feedaread.com, 2014. Kevin Flude To buy email kpflude AT anddidthosefeet.org.uk
‘Citisights Guide to London. Ten Walks through London’s Past’ Virgin Books. 1991. Kevin Flude and Paul Herbert (republished 2001 Authors Choice Press)
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‘In Their Own Words – A Literary Companion To The Origins Of London‘ D A Horizons, 2009. Kevin Flude
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‘Archaeology – The Usborne Young Scientist’. Usborne 1984 Barbara Cork, Struan Reid, Iain Ashman, Dr Anne Millard and Kevin Flude
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Soon, after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Parliament legislated for an annual commemoration of the Catholic Plot. The date was chosen as it was the anniversary of finding Guy Fawkes with a lantern next to piles of barrels of Gunpowder on the occasion of the State Opening of Parliament, 5th November 1605. The Ashmolean …
I haven’t seen children asking for ‘a penny for the Guy’ for a while. But it was part of my childhood. We would create a ‘Guy’ out of old clothes and take it into the streets to raise money. The Guy is named after Guy Fawkes, who was discovered on 5th November 1605 in a …
Continue reading “Preparing for Guy Fawkes Day & the Horned God – November 4th”
Folklore is full of ways of predicting the future – mostly about the weather or love. The Perpetual Almanac by Charles Kightly features many of these in rhyme form of the ‘Sky at Night Shepherd’s Delight’ type. Here is a seasonal one. If ducks do slide at HallowentideAt Christmas they will swimIf ducks do swim …
Continue reading “Sliding Ducks & the Equivocation of Prophecy – November 3rd”