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.

06Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Westminster tube station, outside exit 4 - Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7PW

Walking Tour – Mrs Dalloway’s Day

Follow the route taken by Mrs Dalloway as she goes to buy flowers for her evening party in Virginia...

06Mar
14:00 - 16:30
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...

06Mar
14:00 - 16:00
St Mary Aldermanbury Garden - Love Lane, London, EC2P 2NQ

Walking Tour – Literary City of London: From Shakespeare to Wilde

Explore the haunts of writing luminaries and the evolution of publishing freedoms through the centur...

07Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Rochester Railway Station - 86 Corporation Street, Rochester, ME1 1NH

Walking Tour – Dickens in Rochester

Rochester's buildings and people inspired much of Charles Dickens writing. Here the work inspired by...

07Mar
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,...

07Mar
14:30 - 16:00
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.A...

07Mar
17:00 - 18:30
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.A...

08Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Blackfriars Station (outside the north exit) - Queen Victoria Street, London, EC...

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...

08Mar
11:00 - 12:40
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...

08Mar
14:00 - 16:00
Greenwich Train Station - 187 Greenwich High Road, London, SE10 8JA

Walking Tour – Greenwich Highlights: Monarchs, Martyrs and Mariners

An afternoon stroll in beautiful, historic Greenwich – from fishing and hunting to a naval powerhous...

08Mar
14:00 - 16:00
Farringdon - Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6BY

Walking Tour – Finsbury in Print: from Black Dwarf to Spare Rib

Explore Finsbury: home of radical magazines; setting of and inspiration for novels by Dickens, Gissi...

08Mar
14:30 - 16:00
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.A...

09Mar
11:00 - 12:40
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...

09Mar
11:00 - 12:30
Tottenham Court Road underground station - Oxford St, London W1T 7RJ, London, W1...

Walking Tour – Conrad’s Secret Agent and Anarchism in Fitzrovia

Explore the anarchist circles in London through the eye of Joseph Conrad in his Secret Agent, based...

09Mar
13:00 - 15:30
Outside Tower Hill Station - Tower Hill Station Trinity Square, London, EC3N 4DJ

Disorderly Women of Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks

East of the Tower old-clothes sellers, sex workers, thieves and sailors' wives held sway both before...

09Mar
14:30 - 16:30
Outside Highbury & Islington Tube Station - Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RA

Walking Tour – Six Islington Squares

Enjoy an afternoon looking at the domestic architecture of 19th century Islington.  Enjoy an afterno...

09Mar
14:30 - 16:00
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.A...

09Mar
18:30 - 19:30
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Modernist Hampstead

In this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in...

10Mar
11:00 - 12:40
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...

10Mar
13:00 - 16:00
Thorpe Bay Station - Thorpe Bay, SS1 3JY 

Walking Tour – Mouth of the River – Thorpe Bay to Shoeburyness

A walk along the final part of the Essex side of the Thames Estuary, from the genteel Thorpe Bay to...

10Mar
14:30 - 16:00
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.A...

10Mar
19:00 - 20:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Following Oliver Twist through the streets of London

Hear the story of Oliver Twist and see the real London locations used in one of Charles Dickens' mos...

11Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Warren Street Station - Tottenham Court Road, London, NW1 3AA

Walking Tour – Fact & Fiction in Fitzrovia

Take a walk from Warren Street to Tottenham Court Road to discover Fact & Fiction in FitzroviaFi...

11Mar
11:00 - 12:40
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...

11Mar
14:30 - 16:00
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.A...

11Mar
18:30 - 19:30
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Reach for the Sky, Trading and Business in the City

Discover what trades and businesses have been associated with different buildings from Roman times t...

11Mar
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Down to Margate

Margate has been a popular seaside destination for Londoners since the 1700s when it had its own soc...

12Mar
11:00 - 12:30
The Gatehouse - 1 Highgate Village, London, N6 4BD

Walking Tour: Cold Comfort Farm in Highgate

Discover the life of Stella Gibbons, who published over 20 novels as well as Cold Comfort Farm, her...

12Mar
14:30 - 16:30
Westminster tube station, outside exit 4 - Bridge Rd, London, Sw1A AA

Walking Tour – London Destroyed

This walk looks at sci-fi and dystopian fiction in which London has been destroyed - either by flood...

13Mar
10:30 - 12:30
St George the Martyr, Southwark - Borough High Street, London, SE1 1JA

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...

13Mar
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 2020What's your...

13Mar
14:00 - 16:00
St Paul's tube station, outside exit 2 - St Paul's tube station, outside Cafe Ne...

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,...

13Mar
14:00 - 15:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

13Mar
14:00 - 15:45
South Kensington Station - Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 2ND

Walking Tour – Chelsea – Family, Fame and Infamy

Despite the compact geographical footprint, the walk is packed with a more varied social history tha...

13Mar
14:00 - 15:30
Great Portland Street - Euston Road, London, NW1

Walking Tour – Squares, Circles, Triangles – Literary Bloomsbury

Join Stephen to explore the Bloomsbury of Virginia Woolf and her friends. They lived in squares, pai...

13Mar
18:00 - 19:30
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.A...

14Mar
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 the...

14Mar
17:00 - 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.A...

15Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Exit 2, St Paul's Underground Station - Cheapside, LONDON, EC2V 6BJ

Walking Tour – Rose Macaulay’s Wilderness

Rose Macaulay's 'The World My Wilderness' conjures up the devastation of the post-war City.Rose Maca...

15Mar
13:00 - 15:00
Outside the entrance to City Thames Link Station - Ludgate Hill, London, EC4M 7J...

Walking Tour – Literary Women of the City

Walking Tour - Literary Women of the CityOn today’s walks – we will wander around the City of London...

16Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Westminster Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Warrior Women Walk Tour

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

16Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Limehouse Town Hall - 646 Commercial Road, London, E14 7HA

Walking Tour – Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous East End

Explore Peter Ackroyd's shadowy East End!Photo: St Anne Limehouse (detail) - © 2018 Alan TuckerPeter...

16Mar
19:00 - 20:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – The Heights of Dickens

Follow in a virtual tour in Charles Dickens’ footsteps in a walk from Highgate to the hamlet of Nort...

17Mar
14:00 - 16:00
Romford Railway Station - South Street, Romford, RM1 1SX

Walking Tour – The Liberty of Romford

This walk around Romford celebrates the Liberty Line - the new name for the London Overground betwee...

17Mar
14:00 - 16:00
Meet in the forecourt outside Wagamamma - 58-62 Heath Street, London, NW3 1EN

Walking Tour – Constable’s Hampstead

Discover the Georgian and Regency Hampstead that Constable walked, painted and wrote aboutFrom 1819...

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

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...

17Mar
19:00 - 20:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Americans in London: how they changed and influenced things

Many people who have made a difference here were American. In this tour we look at some of the Ameri...

18Mar
11:00 - 12:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey Walk

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

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

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...

19Mar
13:00 - 14:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey Walk

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

19Mar
14:00 - 16:00
Inside High Street kensington underground station, shopping mall, after ticket t...

Walking Tour – Radical Works, Turbulent Lives: Great Kensington Writers

A tour of historic homes of writers to the north of Kensington High Street who created ground-breaki...

19Mar
14:30 - 16:30
Aldgate Tube Station - 3 Aldgate, London, EC3N 1AH

Walking Tour – A Journal of the Plague Year

This walk follows the events of Daniel Defoe's classic account of the plague of 1665 This walk follo...

19Mar
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.A...

20Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Whyteleafe Station - High Street, Whyteleafe, CR3 0AD

Walking Tour – Kenley’s Battle of Britain Heroes

Telling the stories of the men and women who served at RAF Kenley - the best preserved of London's B...

20Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Farringdon Station - Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6BY

Walking Tour – Barnaby Rudge and the Gordon Riots

Relive Dickens's dramatic retelling of the 1780 anti-Catholic riots that consumed London.Barnaby Rud...

20Mar
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,...

20Mar
14:30 - 16:30
Westminster Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Warrior Women Walk Tour

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

20Mar
18:00 - 19:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...

21Mar
11:00 - 12:30
National Firefighter's Memorial - Peter's Hill, London, EC4M 8BX

Walking Tour – The Ashes of London

Step back in time to the turbulent events of 1666 as we visit scenes from Andrew Taylor's historical...

21Mar
11:00 - 12:30
Blackfriars Underground Station - North Entrance Blackfriars Bridge, London, EC4...

Walking Tour – Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad

Alexander Pope's 18th century satirical poem The Dunciad, highlights the stupidity and lack of taste...

21Mar
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...

21Mar
14:00 - 15:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey Walk

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

21Mar
14:00 - 16:00
St Mary Aldermanbury Garden - Love Lane, London, EC2P 2NQ

Walking Tour – Literary City of London: From Shakespeare to Wilde

Explore the haunts and homes of London's writing luminaries through the centuries in the ancient Cit...

22Mar
10:30 - 12:15
South Kensington Station - Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 2ND

Walking Tour – Chelsea – Family, Fame and Infamy

Despite the compact geographical footprint, the walk is packed with a more varied social history tha...

22Mar
10:30 - 12:00
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...

22Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Westminster Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Warrior Women Walk Tour

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

22Mar
13:00 - 15:00
Exit of All Saints Station on the Docklands Light Railway - East India Dock Road...

Old Poplar : In the footsteps of Call the Midwife and Dickens

It has existed for hundreds of years and for much of this time it was an area of squalor and violenc...

22Mar
14:00 - 16:00
St George the Martyr, Southwark - Borough High Street, London, SE1 1JA

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...

23Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Westminster Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Warrior Women Walk Tour

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

23Mar
11:00 - 12:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey Walk

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

23Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Holborn - Kingsway, London, WC2B 6AA

Walking Tour – The Trollopes of Bloomsbury

Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Discover their real...

24Mar
16:00 - 17:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...

24Mar
18:30 - 20:30
Churchyard of former St. Peter West Cheap Church - 130 Wood Street, London, EC2V...

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...

25Mar
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),...

25Mar
16:00 - 17:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...

25Mar
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Exploring Roman London

Find out what you can see of Roman London on this virtual tourWhile the remains of Roman London migh...

25Mar
20:00 - 21:00
Online Event

Virtual Tour – Around The Kent Coast

Kent's coast is full of history. This online talk will take you on a journey from Dungeness to Sheer...

26Mar
14:00 - 16:00
Inside High Street kensington underground station, shopping mall, after ticket t...

Walking Tour – Radical Works, Turbulent Lives: Great Kensington Writers

A tour of historic homes of writers to the north of Kensington High Street who created ground-breaki...

26Mar
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.A...

26Mar
19:00 - 21:00
Piccadilly Circus Underground Station, Exit 4, pavement level. - Piccadilly Circ...

Walking Tour – Literary Soho

Visit the home of the creator of the vampire in literature, the birthplace of a visionary writer and...

27Mar
14:30 - 16:45
Covent Garden - Long Acre, London, WC2E 9JT

Walking Tour – Convent Garden: A Magnet for Artists and Artistic Practice

Discover how Covent Garden became as a centre for art, socializing, learning and the production of a...

27Mar
14:30 - 16:30
Westminster Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Warrior Women Walk Tour

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

27Mar
18:00 - 19:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...

28Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Blackfriars Station (outside the north exit) - Queen Victoria Street, London, EC...

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...

28Mar
14:00 - 15:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey Walk

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

28Mar
14:00 - 15:00
Woking Station - High Street, Woking, GU22 7AE

Walking Tour – The War of the Worlds in Woking

A visit to the sandpit on Horsell Common near Woking - the place where Martians landed in HG Wells "...

29Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Westminster Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Warrior Women Walk Tour

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

29Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Farringdon Underground - 39 Cowcross St, London, EC1M

Walking Tour – Slow Horses : London Rules

Based on the Slough House series of books by Mick HerronSlough House is where MI5 sends its losers (...

29Mar
14:00 - 16:00
William Morris Gallery (outside front entrance) - 531 Forest Road Walthamstow, L...

Walking Tour – From Monoux and Morris to Beer and Bacon Jam

Explore the ups and downs of Walthamstow's history on this guided walk with Joanna MoncrieffThere’s...

29Mar
14:00 - 16:00
Holborn - Kingsway, London, WC2B 6AA

Walking Tour – The Trollopes of Bloomsbury

Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Discover their real...

30Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Westminster Pier - Victoria Embankment, London, SW1A 2JH

Warrior Women Walk Tour

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

30Mar
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...

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

Behind Westminster Abbey Walk

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

31Mar
11:00 - 13:00
Green Park tube (Victoria, Picadilly, Jubilee lines) outside Stratton Street exi...

Walking Tour – Prime Ministers’ Homes

The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street of course! But where have they lived before and after...

31Mar
14:00 - 17:00
Uber Boat by Thames Clippers - Vauxhall (St. George Wharf) Pier - St Georges Wha...

Walking Tour – Literature on the Thames

A literary odyssey along the Thames from Vauxhall to Barking ReachThe River Thames has inspired writ...

31Mar
16:00 - 17:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...

31Mar
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...

01Apr
11:00 - 12:30
Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey Walk

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

01Apr
14:00 - 16:00
East Acton Underground Station - Erconwald Street, London, W12 0BP

Walking Tour – A Stretch in the Scrubs

This walk takes in the open space of Wormwood Scrubs, then gives a view of the work on the new HS2 s...

01Apr
16:00 - 17:30
National Portrait Gallery - Saint Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery

Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...

 

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