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.

01Aug
01 - Aug
14:00 - 16:00
Farringdon Underground - 39 Cowcross St, London, EC1M

Walking Tour – Il Quartiere – Tales From Italian Clerkenwell

Tales of love, bravery, crime and friendship from Italian Clerkenwell 1830-1950   From the mid 19th...

03Aug
03 - Aug
11:00 - 13:00
The Blackfriar - 174 Greater, London, EC4V 4EG

Walking Tour – Legal London from Inn to Bar

Get to the heart of London's Legal Life! Photo: Royal Courts of Justice (exterior) - © David Ch...

03Aug
03 - Aug
13:00 - 15:30
Rotherhithe Station - Brunel Road, London, SE16 4LF

Walking Tour – Jack Tar in the Age of Sail, from Mayflower to HMS Temeraire

Seamen were cosmopolitan world travellers during the Age of Sail, and Rotherhithe was a centre for b...

03Aug
03 - Aug
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – The Russells of Russell Square

The story of the family that gives its name to Russell Square Ever wonder how the streets around Rus...

05Aug
05 - Aug
11:00 - 13:00
Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia - 70 Lincoln's Inn Fields (In Front of Church...

Walking Tour – Peter Daubeny’s World of Theatre

Celebrate the man who brought the world to the London stage! Photo: Aldwych Theatre canopy - © David...

07Aug
07 - Aug
11:00 - 15:00
Oxted Train Station - Southern Railway - 60 Station Road West, Oxted, RH8 9EU

Walking Tour – The Heights of London – Bromley

This is the big one - a climb up to Westerham Heights standing at 245 m above sea level - the highes...

08Aug
08 - Aug
11:00 - 12:30
Canning Town Station - Silvertown Way, London, E16 1DQ

Walking Tour – Thames Ironworks FC – the Roots of West Ham

This walk takes in some of the locations connected to Thames Ironworks FC - the football club that w...

08Aug
08 - Aug
11:00 - 13:00
Outside Citizen M hotel, next to Tower Hill underground station - Tower Hill, Lo...

Walking Tour – Green Spaces and Hidden Places in the City

Discover the hidden gardens, rooftop terraces and ancient alleyways of the City of London Tucked awa...

08Aug
08 - Aug
11:00 - 12:30
WATERSTONES PICCADILLY - PICCADILLY, London, W1J 9HD

Walking Tour – Piccadilly – Out On The Town

A stroll round London's party capital where all walks of life continue to search for a great ti...

08Aug
08 - Aug
11:00 - 13:00
Corner of Brushfield Street and Bishopsgate - London, EC2M 4AA

Walking Tour – Weaving around history in Spitalfields

On this walk we’re diving back into 2,000 years of history in a very historic area of London. On thi...

08Aug
08 - Aug
13:00 - 16:30
Richmond Station - The Quadrant, Richmond, TW9 2NA

Walking Tour – Wind in the Willows – the Thames from Richmond to Twickenham

Richmond is Sir David Attenborough's favourite place on the planet, and the stretch of the rive...

08Aug
08 - Aug
14:00 - 16:00
Outside Kings Cross Underground Station (Euston Road exit) - Euston Road, London...

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...

08Aug
08 - Aug
14:00 - 16:00
Covent Garden station - James Street, London, WC2E 9JT

Walking Tour – Roaring Twenties Through Writers’ Eyes

Jazz, cocktails, fast cars and the Bright Young Things through the eyes of Waugh, Coward, Christie,...

10Aug
10 - Aug
12:00 - 13:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Helping Hands in the City

Celebrate selflessness in the heart of the City of London! Photo: Plaque at St Stephen, Walbrook - ©...

10Aug
10 - Aug
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – In Search of Churchill

Explore the political career of one of Britain's greatest statesmen! Photo: Churchill Statue by...

11Aug
11 - Aug
13:00 - 14:45
Victoria Embankment Gardens - Watergate - Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6DU

Walking Tour – Historic Westminster SMALL GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

An entertaining introduction to the history of Westminster - royals, conflict and the power struggle...

11Aug
11 - Aug
16:00 - 17:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

From the Tudors to the Suffragettes, hear tales from behind the portraits from regicide, gothic horr...

11Aug
11 - Aug
19:00 - 20:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Come Fly With Me: untold tales of London airports

Hear the fascinating story of London airports past and present from the hardship and glamour of earl...

12Aug
12 - Aug
11:00 - 12:45
Westminster Millennium Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Walking Tour – Warrior Women

A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...

12Aug
12 - Aug
11:00 - 13:00
Palace Theatre - 113 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 5AY

Walking Tour – Secret Writing

Celebrate the secret world in words! Photo: Cambridge Circus Sign - © David Charnick 2020 What's you...

12Aug
12 - Aug
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Secret Writing

Celebrate the secret world in words! Photo: Cambridge Circus Sign - © David Charnick 2020 What's you...

13Aug
13 - Aug
11:00 - 13:00
Wood Street Station - Upper Walthamstow Road Walthamstow, London, E17 3LX

Walking Tour – Secrets of Wood Street (Walthamstow)

Wood Street was known for its early film studios but there is so much more to discover in this area...

13Aug
13 - Aug
14:30 - 16:30
Baker Street - Baker Street, London

Walking Tour – London’s Ragged and Reformers

The underbelly of Victorian London seen through a graveyard, workhouse, Ragged school and more in th...

13Aug
13 - Aug
16:00 - 17:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery

From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years....

14Aug
14 - Aug
14:00 - 16:30
Bankside Pier - Bankside, London, SE1 9DT

Walking Tour – Wars of the Roses in the City of London

15th century London boils with political strife as the great houses of Lancaster and York battle to...

14Aug
14 - Aug
14:30 - 16:40
Greenwich Foot Tunnel South - Greenwich Foot Tunnel, London, SE10 9HT

Walking Tour – Historic Greenwich: royals, pirates and exploration

Tales of heroism, dark deeds and big characters as we walk through Greenwich Park, past historic bui...

15Aug
15 - Aug
11:00 - 13:00
Tower Gateway DLR Station (Minories exit) - 67 Minories, London, EC3N 1DD

Walking Tour – Downriver from the City

Uncover traces of the Pool of London east of the City! Photo © 2014 Leigh Stanford – Custom House, L...

15Aug
15 - Aug
15:30 - 17:30
Outside Cafe nero exit 2 St Paul's station - Saint Paul's Churchyard Outside Caf...

Walking Tour – Reach for the sky: trading and business in the City

Discover how the commercial identity of the City of London has changed with the times to Roman Forum...

16Aug
16 - Aug
14:00 - 16:15
4 London Wall Pl, Fore St - 4 Fore Street, London, EC2Y 5DE

Walking Tour – City Gardens of the Blitz

Discover and learn the histories behind the many delightful City Gardens created from Blitz sites in...

17Aug
17 - Aug
11:00 - 12:45
Victoria Embankment Gardens - Watergate - Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6DU

Walking Tour – Historic Westminster SMALL GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

An entertaining introduction to the history of Westminster - royals, conflict and the power struggle...

17Aug
17 - Aug
14:00 - 15:45
Westminster Millennium Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Walking Tour – Warrior Women

A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...

18Aug
18 - Aug
13:00 - 14:45
Victoria Embankment Gardens - Watergate - Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6DU

Walking Tour – Historic Westminster SMALL GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

An entertaining introduction to the history of Westminster - royals, conflict and the power struggle...

18Aug
18 - Aug
14:30 - 17:00
Tower Hill Station - Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4DJ

Walking Tour – Beneath London’s Streets

A tour about things under the ground, featuring a church crypt, Roman remains, underground shops and...

18Aug
18 - Aug
16:00 - 17:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

From the Tudors to the Suffragettes, hear tales from behind the portraits from regicide, gothic horr...

18Aug
18 - Aug
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – London’s Food Factories

It was hard work keeping Victorian London supplied with food. This Virtual Tour looks at the factori...

19Aug
19 - Aug
11:00 - 12:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Walking Tour – Behind Westminster Abbey

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowds Right in the heart of histor...

20Aug
20 - Aug
16:00 - 17:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery

From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years....

21Aug
21 - Aug
14:00 - 16:00
Tower Hill Underground station - Tower Hill, London

Walking Tour – Fight! Riots and Revolts on the streets of London

From the Peasants' Revolt (1381) to the Gordon Riots (1780), a walk exploring London's mos...

21Aug
21 - Aug
17:00 - 18:45
Victoria Embankment Gardens - Watergate - Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6DU

Walking Tour – Historic Westminster SMALL GROUP HIGHLIGHTS evening

An entertaining introduction to the history of Westminster - royals, conflict and the power struggle...

22Aug
22 - Aug
11:00 - 13:00
Outside Brew Garden cafe - 337-338 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7PX

Walking Tour – The Literary City

Discover the City's rich literary heritage, from a pub frequented by Dr Johnson and Dickens, to...

22Aug
22 - Aug
13:15 - 16:15
Barnes Bridge Station - Pavement outside the station The Terrace, London, SW13 0...

Walk – Tudor Mortlake – Cromwell, Elizabeth, Dr Dee and the Ship Pub

Renaissance scholar John Dee's library was renowned. Other Tudor luminaries figure in Mortlake...

22Aug
22 - Aug
14:00 - 18:10
Greenwich Foot Tunnel South - Greenwich Foot Tunnel, London, SE10 9HT

Walking Tour – Historic Greenwich: royals, pirates and exploration

Tales of heroism, dark deeds and big characters as we walk through Greenwich Park, past historic bui...

22Aug
22 - Aug
14:00 - 16:00
Wood Street Station - Upper Walthamstow Road Walthamstow, London, E17 3LX

Walking Tour – Secrets of Wood Street (Walthamstow)

Wood Street was known for its early film studios but there is so much more to discover in this area...

24Aug
24 - Aug
11:00 - 12:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowds Right in the heart of histor...

24Aug
24 - Aug
14:00 - 16:00
Victoria and Albert Museum - Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL

Walking Tour – Secret Knightsbridge

Discover highlights of Brompton and the charming secret backstreets of Knightsbridge conservation ar...

24Aug
24 - Aug
14:30 - 16:15
Victoria Embankment Gardens - Watergate - Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6DU

Walking Tour – Historic Westminster SMALL GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

An entertaining introduction to the history of Westminster - royals, conflict and the power struggle...

25Aug
25 - Aug
14:00 - 15:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

From the Tudors to the Suffragettes, hear tales from behind the portraits from regicide, gothic horr...

26Aug
26 - Aug
14:30 - 17:00
Temple tube station - Temple Place, London, WC2R 2PH

Walking Tour – The Devil to the Old King: Pubs on and around Fleet Street

We find some of London's legendary pubs, finest pub buildings, with stories of great writers, d...

27Aug
27 - Aug
14:30 - 16:30
Outside National Portrait Gallery - St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

Walking Tour – John Singer Sargent’s People

This walk visits places where people who appeared in the paintings of John Singer Sargent lived.   D...

28Aug
28 - Aug
13:30 - 17:30
Wivenhoe Station - Station Road, Wivenhoe, CO7 9DJ

Walking Tour – Essex Estuaries – Wivenhoe on the Luminous Coast

Once shipbuilding centre for Colchester, now sailing-cum-commuter village, with bohemian and gay his...

29Aug
29 - Aug
11:00 - 12:30
WATERSTONES PICCADILLY - PICCADILLY, London, W1J 9HD

Walking Tour – Style and Scandal in St James’s

A stroll through one of the most stylish parts of London to discover its bohemian history. From the...

30Aug
30 - Aug
14:00 - 15:30
St James's Street Station - St James's Street Walthamstow, London, E17 7PJ

Walking Tour – Secrets of the High Street (Walthamstow)

A Market, a Music Hall, Pubs, Pepys & Keats Originally called Marsh Street, as it led to the mar...

31Aug
31 - Aug
14:00 - 16:00
Greenwich Train Station - 187 Greenwich High Road, London, SE10 8JA

Walking Tour – Greenwich Highlights: Monarchs, Martyrs and Mariners

A stroll in beautiful, historic Greenwich – from fishing and hunting to a naval powerhouse and centr...

01Sep
01 - Sep
14:30 - 16:30
Monument - King William Street #Monument Station, London, EC4R 9AA

Walking Tour – A Dreadful Bow of Flame: The Great Fire of London

We trace the course of the Great Fire and the events of those 3 -4 days and attempt to see through t...

08Sep
08 - Sep
11:00 - 13:00
Stairway to Heaven, Bethnal Green Memorial - Unnamed Road, London, E2 9QX

Walking Tour – Blitz and Beyond in Bethnal Green

Come explore the impact of World War Two on Bethnal Green Photo: Bethnal Green Tube Disaster Memoria...

12Sep
12 - Sep
14:00 - 17:00
The Vicar's Oak, - Corner of Anerley Hill, Crystal Palace Parade at entrance to...

Crystal Palace: Walking the Historic High Level Railway

Plotting remains of the Crystal Palace High Level line: station sites, arches, tunnel portals, the t...

13Sep
13 - Sep
14:00 - 16:00
Woolwich Elizabeth Line Station - Elizabeth Line Station, London, SE18 6EU

Walking Tour – Woolwich: Arsenal to Art Deco

Visit the eclectic riverside origin of Arsenal FC, with its 18th century gun factories, 1930s Art De...

14Sep
14 - Sep
14:00 - 15:30
St James's Street Station - St James's Street Walthamstow, London, E17 7PJ

Walking Tour – Secrets of the High Street (Walthamstow)

A Market, a Music Hall, Pubs, Pepys & Keats Originally called Marsh Street, as it led to the mar...

15Sep
15 - Sep
11:00 - 13:00
Churchill Statue, Parliament Square - Westminster, London, SW1P 3BD

Walking Tour – In Search of Churchill

Explore the political career of one of Britain's greatest statesmen! Photo: Churchill Statue by...

18Sep
18 - Sep
11:00 - 13:00
Covent Garden Station - Long Acre (Meet outside the exit - James St), London, WC...

Walking Tour – Samuel Johnson of Fleet Street

Celebrate Dictionary Johnson with his own words! Photo: Samuel Johnson by Percy Fitzgerald (detail),...

18Sep
18 - Sep
13:00 - 16:00
Queenborough Station - Main Road, Queenborough, ME11 5DB

Walking Tour – Queenborough and Sheerness – Two Kent Ports

A walk between the little Kent port of Queenborough and the seaside town of Sheerness via the docks...

19Sep
19 - Sep
14:00 - 16:00
Tower Hill Station - Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4DJ

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...

22Sep
22 - Sep
16:30 - 18:30
Westminster Tube (Exit 4) - Bridge Street, London, SW1

Walking Tour – Return of the King

The drama of the first ten years of the restoration through Whitehall and St James's: the court...

22Sep
22 - Sep
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – London’s Historic Markets

London has some of the most famous markets in the world - Smithfield, Spitalfields and Covent Garden...

23Sep
23 - Sep
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – The Pleasures of Bath

This Virtual Tour looks at life in Georgian Bath - which was a place to come for health reasons but...

26Sep
26 - Sep
11:00 - 14:15
Covent Garden station - James Street, London, WC2E 9JT

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...

29Sep
29 - Sep
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Joseph Bazalgette – London’s Great Engineer

Bazalgette is famous for his work on London's sewer system, but he worked on many other project...

03Oct
03 - Oct
11:00 - 12:30
Temple London Underground Station - Temple Place, London, WC2R 2PH

Walking Tour – Aldwych – before and beyond

Aldwych and Kingsway are a bit of an aberration in London. How did they come about? And what was the...

03Oct
03 - Oct
14:00 - 16:30
Tower Hill Tube Station - Trinity Square , London, EC3N 4DJ

Walking Tour – The Long Good Friday Revisited

A walk looking at some of the locations from the film The Long Good Friday and how the story in the...

10Oct
10 - Oct
13:00 - 15:30
Brixton Station - Brixton Road Pavement outside, London, SW9 8HE

Walking Tour – Black & White Brixton: Windrush, Squats, Uprising, Gay Lib

From WWII Brixton is a centre for black Britons as well as South London fairies, squatters, poets, L...

17Oct
17 - Oct
14:00 - 16:00
Farringdon Underground - 39 Cowcross St, London, EC1M

Walking Tour – Il Quartiere – Tales From Italian Clerkenwell

Tales of love, bravery, crime and friendship from Italian Clerkenwell 1830-1950   From the mid 19th...

18Oct
18 - Oct
11:00 - 12:30
Top of Park Lane, by the Green Tourist Hut next to The Marriott Hotel - Park Lan...

Walking Tour – James Bond and the Spies of Mayfair

A walk round the exclusive streets of Mayfair home of spies and the stomping ground of Ian Fleming,...

24Oct
24 - Oct
14:00 - 16:00
Elstree and Borehamwood Station - Allum Lane, Borehamwood, WD6 3LS

Walking Tour – Elstree Remember Me – Borehamwood’s Film History

A walk around the former sites of the Elstree studios in Borehamwood, where some of the most famous...

29Oct
29 - Oct
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Scary Things from The British Museum Collection

This virtual tour on Zoom looks at the scariest, most gruesome , most creepy objects in the British...

07Nov
07 - Nov
13:00 - 16:30
Manningtree Station - Station Approach Off A137, Manningtree., CO11 2LH

Walking Tour – Essex Estuaries – Manningtree’s Infamous Witch-Craze

The Stour Estuary was one Ground Zero for cruel 17th-century witch-crazes. The walk focuses on which...

21Nov
21 - Nov
11:00 - 12:30
CAVENDISH SQUARE - Pret a Manger 31 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PW

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...

28Nov
28 - Nov
11:00 - 14:15
Covent Garden station - James Street, London, WC2E 9JT

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...

01Dec
01 - Dec
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

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...

02Dec
02 - Dec
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – A Victorian Christmas in Islington

This online looks at the how Christmas was celebrated in Islington during the Victorian period with...

03Dec
03 - Dec
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Christmas in Edwardian London

In the first years of the 20th century Christmas traditions started by the Victorians evolved for a...

05Dec
05 - Dec
14:00 - 15:45
Angel Tube Station - Islington, London, EC1V 1NE

Walking Tour – A Victorian Christmas in Islington

This walk looks at the different ways that Christmas was celebrated in Islington during the Victoria...

20Dec
20 - Dec
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

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...

21Dec
21 - Dec
14:00 - 15:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – A Victorian Christmas in Islington

This online looks at the how Christmas was celebrated in Islington during the Victorian period with...

 

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