• June 9th is Dickens day!
    June 9th is Dickens day!
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    June 9th 2020 is the 150th anniversary of the death of one of our greatest storytellers, Charles Dickens. Claire Tomalin in her book Charles Dickens: A Life hails Dickens as the greatest creator of characters after Shakespeare: “Dickensian characters, especially so because of their typically whimsical names are amomgst the most memorable in English literature….

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  • Footprints of London virtual London tours
    Footprints of London virtual London tours
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    Given the ongoing restrictions on public gatherings (and because we miss you all!), we are going virtual and taking a number of our tours online. These virtual tours will be conducted via Zoom conferencing and will be hosted live by our guides who will talk you through their tour assisted by an illustrated presentation of…

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  • Our favourite London fiction
    Our favourite London fiction
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    Lockdown means that our Footprints of London guides are doing even more reading than usual, and we are all avid readers.  So we asked some of our guides to recommend some of the works of fiction set in London they have enjoyed (and books for which London, or a part of London, as a location…

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