We are standing on London Bridge and I am waving my arms about describing a Saxon-Viking battle that took place there about 60 years before the Norman Conquest. As we talk, there is a slowly emerging sense of convergence – of times and places, of “then” and “now”, the continuity of things. London’s place names, streets, rivers and churches all begin to make sense once you see it as a long, messy, river-bound and continuing story.
Leading Catholic history walks involves meeting many different groups: American visitors, schoolchildren, Catholics from parishes and other organisations and non-Catholic groups of family historians.
