Tagged in FOLK OLYMPICS
By Londonist

Video: The Stratford Martyrs

Burned at the stake for their beliefs.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Elizabeth Fry And Prison Reform

The singular contribution of that lady off the back of the £5 note.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Monkey Suckers And The Royal Docks

Continuing musical tour of London's Olympic boroughs.
By Londonist

Folk Olympics: Part Time Entertainers And Raw Sewage

A song inspired by one of London's worst disasters.
By M@

Folk Olympics: World Sports, Wastage & Walthamstow Ave FC

Did you know, Waltham Forest is the only east London borough to stage the Olympics twice?
By Londonist

Folk Olympics: The Cursed Pool Of Epping Forest

Ruairidh Anderson investigates a mysterious pool in the Olympic borough.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Motors And Muddy Marshes In Walthamstow

The first petrol-driven car in Britain, and its Walthamstow debut.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Pestilence, Plague & The Pits of Waltham Forest

The folk history of the Olympic boroughs moves on to Waltham Forest.
By M@

Folk Olympics: The Mole Man Of Hackney

A song about William Lyttle, notorious tunneller.
By M@

Folk Olympics: The Native American Who Ran In Hackney

Meet Deerfoot, who set a world record in the Olympic borough over 100 years ago.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Bright Lights & Horatio Bottomley

Meet the founder of the Financial Times who end his days performing in seedy music halls.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Mrs Basil Holmes - Gravestones, Greed & Old School Socks

Our musical tour of the Olympic boroughs reaches Hackney.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Martial Bourdin, The Exploding Anarchist Of Greenwich

Meet the anarchist whose failed attempt at terrorism inspired Conrad.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Battles, Brothels And Broken Hearts - General James Wolfe

Meet the Greenwich warrior who sired 14 bastards.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Anne Boleyn, Marriage and May Madness

The ill-fated queen's connections to Greenwich.
By Londonist

Folk Olympics: Of Cockney Mudlarks And Maori Chiefs

A song about a Greenwich mudlark who, improbably, became a Maori chief.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Ships, Bones & Bad Breath

The story of Brunel's cursed ship, and a cracking song about it, too.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Eliza Marchpane, Mozart, Vol Au Vents And The Wapping Streets

Another unusual tale from the East End, turned into song.
By Londonist

Folk Olympics: John Newton, Goebbels, Star Trek & The Slave Trade

Meet the Eastender who composed one of the world's great songs, traded slaves, then helped abolish slavery.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Emmanuel Swedenborg, Veruca Socks And Heavenly Secrets

Tales from the Olympic boroughs - this week, a Swedish mystic who predicted his own death.
By M@

Folk Olympics: Morris 'Two-Guns' Cohen

The unlikely story of the east-ender who ended up serving as a bodyguard in China.
By Londonist

Folk Olympics: Jamrach's Menagerie, Rhinos & The Ratcliffe Highway

The day a tiger escaped into the East End.
By Londonist

Folk Olympics: Angela Burdett-Coutts, Queen Of The East End Poor

Celebrating the Olympic boroughs in video and song.
By Londonist

Folk Olympics: Charlie Brown, Uncrowned King Of Limehouse

A boxer, a pub and a two-headed calf in Limehouse.