HISTORY WALKS...

...along the  Strand, and down to the Thames and around the Temple, and more...

There is a lot of enthusiasm and people seem to relish discovering the centuries of London's history, and seeing how the names of streets and pubs resonate with the activities and events of the past. St Giles-in-the-Fields was where sufferers from leprosy lived...you often find a St Giles church on the edge of a city (in Oxford, too, for example). St Martin-in-the-Fields was originally a day-chapel fore the monks of Westminster Abbey for their midday prayers. The Strand, of course,  as its name states, was simply the shore of the Thames...

We simply must return to teaching history properly in schools. Today there is an absurd  idea of teaching "themes"  or of doing a random "experience"  project.  So children are invited to "imagine you lived in a Norman Castle" and they write giggly stuff about not having proper lavatories and so on...but what they need to know is who the Normans were and why they built castles where they did.

Want to come on a Catholic History Walk?  Get the info here.