Tours
We add new tours almost daily. Our talented and qualified guides provide a variety of tours that cover a wide range of subjects. You can also choose your own date and time for any of the tours you see on our website by booking it as a private tour.
Virtual Tour – Africans in London
A look at some of the people who were born in Africa and came to London, from Roman times to the pre...
Walking Tour – Borough and Bankside – From Bard to Brothels
Borough and Bankside has an incredible, and at times shocking, history shaped by its’ proximity to b...
Walking Tour – Up and Down The City Road
A walk along Islington's City Road - home to innovative hospitals, company headquarters and a l...
Walking Tour – The Hidden River Fleet Kings Cross to the Thames
Many Londoners cross the River Fleet every day without realising it. This walk traces the route of t...
Walking Tour – The Life of Jack Sheppard: From Gin Lane to the Fatal Tree:
Thief and escape-artist Jack Sheppard sparred with thief-taker Jonathan Wild in streets thronged wit...
Walking Tour – In and Out of the Aldgate
An ancient area of travel and movement at one end of the Metropolitan Line! Photo: Aldgate Undergrou...
Walking Tour – Trains, Drains and Remains
Discover what largely lies under-foot in the City including drains, sewage pipes, water conduits, bu...
Virtual Tour – On The Trail of the Peasants Revolt
In 1381 protests against the Poll Tax led to a violent uprising in Essex and Kent - and then the reb...
Walking Tour – Rotherhithe – Echoes of the Thames
Explore Rotherhithe’s links with the Pilgrims voyage to modern day USA, an engineering innovation st...
Walking Tour – Borough and Bankside – From Bard to Brothels
Borough and Bankside has an incredible, and at times shocking, history shaped by its’ proximity to b...
Walking Tour – Il Quartiere – Tales From Italian Clerkenwell
Tales of love, bravery, crime and friendship from Italian Clerkenwell 1830-1950 From the mid 19th...
Virtual Tour – Immigration East of the City
Pick up the traces of immigrant groups in the East End! Photo: St George's German Lutheran Church, A...
Walking Tour – Immigration East of the City
Uncover the traces of immigrant groups on the fringes of the City! Photo: St George's German Luthera...
Walking Tour – The Rich and Poor of Marylebone
Take a walk round Marylebone, the affluent village in the centre of London where extreme poverty and...
Walking Tour – Francisco de Miranda – a South American in London
Francisco de Miranda was the founder of modern Venezuela. But he spent a lot of his life in London p...
Walking Tour – Deptford to Greenwich by river
Discover Deptford's gorgeous high street, vibrant market and its "secret" medieval ch...
Walking Tour – London’s Port History – Part 1 the Roman and Medieval Port
The first of four walks telling the story of the Port of London. The walk starts with the Romans wal...
Walking Tour – A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living
Discover the experimental 20th century architectural homes in a stroll through Highgate Village, Wat...
Walking tour: What’s behind the South Bank?
Discover the hidden gems behind the entertainment venues of the South Bank In an area that offers so...
Sex for Sale in Wartime: Piccadilly Commandos, Good-Time Girls and the GIs
A 'friendly invasion' of US military in 1942 led to a boom for sex workers, pimps and wome...
Virtual Tour – The story of the District Line: London’s second underground
Hop on for a fascinating virtual ride exploring the hidden tales and history behind London’s iconic...
Virtual Tour – Churches, Castles and Country Towns – a Lincolnshire Journey
A history filled tour of one of England's largest counties Take a break from London for a virtu...
Walking Tour – St Giles: In Search of a Slum
Exploring the legacy of a slum through some historic social buildings, atmospheric old streets and f...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
From the Tudors to the Suffragettes, hear tales from behind the portraits from regicide, gothic horr...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Virtual Tour – Made in London – A Tour of The British Museum
Treasures from the British Museum that were either made or found in London The British Museum is ful...
Walking Tour – Knights’ Tales of Medieval London
Tales of the knights of London’s medieval past on a walk taking in the sites of jousts, executions,...
Walking Tour – In Vincent’s Footsteps: from Covent Garden to Stockwell
Vincent Van Gogh lived in Stockwell for a year from August 1873. We follow his likely walk home from...
Walking Tour – Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous East End
Explore Peter Ackroyd's shadowy East End! Photo: St Anne Limehouse (detail) - © 2018 Alan Tucke...
Walking Tour – A Christmas Carol
Follow in the footsteps of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and co as we explore the atmospheric City of London...
Virtual Tour – Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous East End
Explore Peter Ackroyd's shadowy East End! Photo: St Anne Limehouse (detail) - © 2018 Alan Tucke...
Walking Tour – Émigré Contributions to the Festival of Britain
Discover how much o the art, design and architecture of the South Bank site for the 1951 Festival of...
Walking Tour – Tracing the Tudors: The real London of Wolf Hall
Join me on this walking tour to track down the locations that tell the stories behind the events of...
Walking Tour -12 Days of Christmas Walk
12 Days of Christmas Walk - Festive Legends & History in the City of London It is nearly Christm...
Walking Tour – In Search of Churchill
Explore the political career of one of Britain's greatest statesmen! Photo: Churchill Statue by...
Virtual Tour – In Search of Churchill
Explore the political career of one of Britain's greatest statesmen! Photo: Churchill Statue by...
Walking Tour – 20th Century Buildings in Hoxton and Haggerston
This two hour walk looks at the exteriors of very different buildings, all built during the 20th Cen...
Walking Tour – The Makers of Modern London
A walk looking at some of the people who transformed London into the worlds first modern city If you...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
From the Tudors to the Suffragettes, hear tales from behind the portraits from regicide, gothic horr...
Walking Tour – Foodie Themed Christmas Lights
See the West End's best Christmas lights whilst hearing about the history of Christmas food and...
Virtual Tour – Christmas in Georgian London
A look at how Christmas was celebrated in the 18th and early 19th centuries At the start of the Geor...
Walking Tour – The Spa Fields Riots of 1816
In the autumn of 1816 London simmered with discontent, which came to a head with violent disturbance...
Walking Tour – Mr Blake’s Tree Full of Angels (Richard’s Soho Pub Walk)
A whimsical tour in west Soho, seeing its history through pubs, including a dodgy pump, a visionary...
Virtual Tour – A Victorian Christmas in Islington
This online looks at the how Christmas was celebrated in Islington during the Victorian period with...
Walking Tour – The Liberty of Romford
This walk around Romford celebrates the Liberty Line - the new name for the London Overground betwee...
Virtual Tour – Christmas in Edwardian London
In the first years of the 20th century Christmas traditions started by the Victorians evolved for a...
Walking Tour – A Victorian Christmas in Islington
This walk looks at the different ways that Christmas was celebrated in Islington during the Victoria...
Walking Tour – A Christmas Carol
Follow in the footsteps of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and co as we explore the atmospheric City of London...
Walking Tour -12 Days of Christmas Walk
12 Days of Christmas Walk - Festive Legends & History in the City of London It is nearly Christm...
Walking Tour – The Trollopes of Bloomsbury
Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Discover their real...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Virtual Tour – Dangerous Secrets
Tales from the streets of betrayals, assassinations and other covert activity! Photo: The Old Vic Th...
Walking Tour – Dangerous Secrets
Tales from the streets of betrayals, assassinations and other covert activity! Photo: The Old Vic Th...
Virtual Tour – First Flights Over London
A look at the first balloon , airship and aircraft to fly over London, and the stir this caused amon...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Walking Tour – Foodie Themed Christmas Lights
See the West End's best Christmas lights whilst hearing about the history of Christmas food and...
Walking Tour – Exploring Roman London
A morning looking at Roman remains in London There are a lot of Roman remains in London, although th...
Walking Tour – Borough and Bankside – From Bard to Brothels
Borough and Bankside has an incredible, and at times shocking, history shaped by its’ proximity to b...
Walking Tour – Samuel Johnson of Fleet Street
Celebrate Dictionary Johnson with his own words! Photo: Samuel Johnson by Percy Fitzgerald (detail),...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Walking Tour – Primrose Hill and the Navvies
Primrose Hill was born when navvies dug out the land by hand, bringing grime, racket, hard drinking...
Walking Tour – London’s Port History – Part 2 East and West India Docks
The 2nd of 4 walks telling the story of the Port of London, looks at the docks built for the East In...
Walking Tour – Lamp-lit Hampstead
Discover the history rich network of alleys and lanes in old Hampstead Village illuminated by lamps...
Virtual Tour – Samuel Johnson of Fleet Street
Celebrate the many sides of Dictionary Johnson! Photo: Samuel Johnson by Percy Fitzgerald (detail),...
Walking Tour – Chelsea – Family, Fame and Infamy
Despite the compact geographical footprint, the walk is packed with a more varied social history tha...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Walking Tour – True Spy Stories
A two hour walk about espionage and counter intelligence that tells the true stories that inspired s...
Walking Tour – Cows, Cloth-Sellers and the Condemned: Smithfield’s Pubs
The history of Smithfield through its iconic pubs: the markets, the monsateries, executions, Barts F...
Walking Tour – Rotherhithe – Echoes of the Thames
Explore Rotherhithe’s links with the Pilgrims voyage to modern day USA, an engineering innovation st...
Walking Tour – Borough and Bankside – From Bard to Brothels
Borough and Bankside has an incredible, and at times shocking, history shaped by its’ proximity to b...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Walking Tour – Chelsea – Family, Fame and Infamy
Despite the compact geographical footprint, the walk is packed with a more varied social history tha...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Virtual Tour – Christmas in Georgian London
A look at how Christmas was celebrated in the 18th and early 19th centuries At the start of the Geor...
Virtual Tour – A Victorian Christmas in Islington
This online looks at the how Christmas was celebrated in Islington during the Victorian period with...
Virtual Tour – Letchworth – The First Garden City
Letchworth is where social reformer Ebenezer Howard put his idea of the Garden City into practice -...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Virtual Tour – A Dickens of a City
Explore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! Photo: Marshalsea Prison Wall - © David...
Walking Tour – A Dickens of a City
Explore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! Photo: Marshalsea Prison Wall - © David...
Walking Tour – Tracing the Tudors: The real London of Wolf Hall
Join me on this walking tour to track down the locations that tell the stories behind the events of...
Walking Tour – The Way to Botany Bay: Sentenced to Transportation
History of Islington youths convicted of theft and condemned to hang who were instead shipped to Aus...
Walking Tour – Suffragette Line : Gospel Oak
See where fields gave way to cottages, award winning council housing . One of a series of walks expl...
Walking Tour – Cows, Cloth-Sellers and the Condemned: Smithfield’s Pubs
The history of Smithfield through its iconic pubs: the markets, the monsateries, executions, Barts F...
Walking Tour – Dickens After Dark: In the Steps of the Night Walker
Join me to follow the footsteps of Dickens on his epic night walks as he sought inspiration for his...
Walking Tour – The Blitz and Preserving History in the City
Discover the events of 29 December 1940 and what was rescued, revealed and restored in the City afte...
Sex for Sale in Wartime: Piccadilly Commandos, Good-Time Girls and the GIs
A Friendly Invasion of US military in 1942 led to a boom for sex workers, pimps and women living in...
Walking Tour – Booze and the Borough
Come celebrate a world of inns, hops and beer! Photo: Site of Barclay Perkins Brewery - © David Char...
Virtual Tour – Booze and the Borough
Come celebrate a world of inns, hops and beer! Photo: Site of Barclay Perkins Brewery - © David Char...
Virtual Tour – True Spy Stories
Spy stories from the streets of London during World War One and Two A 50 minute talk about espionage...
Walking Tour – Cows, Cloth-Sellers and the Condemned: Smithfield’s Pubs
The history of Smithfield through its iconic pubs: the markets, the monsateries, executions, Barts F...
Virtual Tour – The First Voyages of The East India Company
Stories of the fragile beginnings of the East India Company with their first journeys to Indonesia,...
Virtual Tour – Hackney’s Best Buildings
London Borough of Hackney has a wonderful variety of buildings from Tudor Sutton House to modern Bri...
Virtual Tour – Down to Margate
Margate has been a popular seaside destination for Londoners since the 1700s when it had its own soc...
Virtual Tour – Ships built in London
The stories of ships built in London from the sailing ships of Tudor times to the battleships of Wor...
Virtual Tour – A Journey Along The Northumberland Coast
A virtual journey visiting the castles , country houses, beautiful beaches and ancient abbeys along...
Virtual Tour – Wandsworth’s Best Buildings
Rob talks about his favourite buildings in the London Borough of Wandsworth, including the former Yo...
Walking Tour – London’s Port History – Part 3 The Royal Docks
The 3rd of 4 walks telling the story of the port of London looks at the huge docks built for steamsh...
Virtual Tour – South Wales – Landscape and Industry
A virtual tour through South Wales from Chepstow to Worm's Head looking at industrial history t...
Walking Tour – Dissenters of Newington Green
In the 18th century Newington Green was home to a group of religious dissenters who discussed politi...
Please be sure to read our FAQ page for general terms and conditions of booking and cancellation/refunds policy.