Hosted by Alan Hertz · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 42 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
SideStreets is a podcast about the history and geography of London. SideStreets will not attempt a narrative history of London. It will instead focus on out-of-the-way places, little-known people, and good stories. It will use them, I hope, to illustrate important patterns and principles in that history and maybe even in the history of all cities. Enjoy extra exclusive additions to the regular episodes by supporting us on Patreon .
Alan Hertz hosts SideStreets Podcast, a history show with 42 episodes published.
In the second episode about Soho Square, we take a voyeuristic look at London's magical brothel, celebrate a retailing pioneer, and pay grateful tribute to London's greatest civil engineer. Oh, and we take a short ride o
In the first of two episodes about Soho Square, we look at some extraordinary characters: an Admiral who wrecked an entire fleet, an adventuress who invented the night club, and a botanist who brought the whole world to
In this episode, we watch small wildernesses sprout from the bare central spaces of London's residential square. And we meet Thomas Fairchild, who might have shaped the look of London as much as anyone else. Visit Our We
In this episode we meet an incredible array of characters: from the Mohocks to the Veterans in the Fields of Venus; from Ambrose Godfrey, inventor of the fire extinguisher; to Moll King, banker to the sex trade; to Jack
Come with us as we dig into the origins of London's most distinctive feature: the residential square. We'll stroll in our first public park, gaze meditatively out of some drawing room windows, trip over rotten vegetables
We continue the story of Emma Hamilton in this episode — she becomes even more famous, even more influential, even more powerful, then things go horribly, disastrously wrong . . . Visit Our Website: https://www.sidestree
To celebrate the holidays, we dig up some old alleyways about graves and memorials. You'll encounter missing teeth, plastic swans, a stone tent, and a faithful companion. Visit Our Website: https://www.sidestreets.co.uk/
Over the next two episodes we look at the life and work of one of England's most underrated cultural figures: Emma Hamilton. Watch her create a style, an artform, a freeing revolution, then watch her life disintegrate in
This month, we wade and scramble from the Swan Theatre, where Queen Elizabeth I was dangerously satirized, to Holland's Leaguer, where her successor James I went for a disreputable good time. Then we speculate a bit abou
Come with me in this episode as I make my way through the wildest part of Shakespeare's Bankside. We will meet Winchester Geese, apes on horseback, the first billboards, and rap battles between competing preachers. Visit
Come with me as we brave the crowds and the confusion to visit the neighborhood Shakespeare would have known. There's so much to see that we will need at least two episodes! Visit Our Website: https://www.sidestreets.co.
Meet Patrick Colquhoun, slave-trader, wartime profiteer, founder of the Thames River Police. As much as anyone, he created modern London. Visit Our Website: https://www.sidestreets.co.uk/ Support Us on Patreon: patreon.c
This episode considers London's changing relationship with the rivers flowing through it, paying particular attention to the attempt to make the Fleet River respectable after the Great Fire. Visit Our Website: https://ww
In this episode, we meet another pillar—the magnificent Maori carving rising through the centre of New Zealand House. In a bit of Westminster thick with sculpture, this one puts all the others to shame. Visit Our Website
We take a walk through the history of Brick Lane, and eventually witness -- and celebrate -- the construction of Banglatown’s jewel, the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid’s minaret. Visit Our Website: https://www.sidestreets.co.uk
In this episode we meet Anna Hassall, in many ways a typical female entrepreneur of early 18c Jamaica. But Anna, unlike her business partners competitors, ended up in Westminster Abbey. Why? Visit Our Website: https://ww
Meet Elizabeth Montagu, doyenne of the Feather Room and hostess of the Chimneysweeps' Feast, who gently feminized London society for half a century. Visit Our Website Support Us on Patreon SideStreets is a Black Lab Medi
Why would one of the most famous, successful, influential women of Victorian Britain, one of the greatest and most effective champions of progressive causes, spend twenty years campaigning to deny herself political power
Two young men on the make decide that Christmas is a marketing opportunity disguised as a holiday. In London during the third week of September 1843, modern consumerism comes of age. Visit our website - https://www.sides
In this episode, we head back to the 60's when Thames geese competed with Eric Clapton's guitar riffs and the wail of Rod Stewart's harmonica, and the hush of Richmond's middle-class respectability was delightfully distu
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
SideStreets Podcast has a verified contact on file. Create a free PitchCentric account to access it and generate a personalised pitch in seconds. Research at least 3 recent episodes first and lead with a specific angle that serves their history audience.
SideStreets Podcast is hosted by Alan Hertz. The show is categorised under history (society) and has published 42 episodes.
SideStreets Podcast has published 42 episodes.
SideStreets Podcast regularly covers history, society, culture. It sits in the history category, with a society focus.
SideStreets Podcast is accessible for guests with genuine history expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
SideStreets Podcast hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of SideStreets Podcast average 20 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates SideStreets Podcast's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched yesterday.
