Footprints of London

Visit the eclectic riverside origin of Arsenal FC, with its 18th century gun factories, 1930s Art Deco and shining new developments 500 hundred years of boom and bust have gifted riverside Woolwich with a mix of 18th century military factories, palatial Victorian municipal buildings and 1930s Art Deco, much of which has been sympathetically restored…

Discover Deptford's gorgeous high street, vibrant market and its "secret" medieval church before following the river path to Greenwich Deptford is where centuries of maritime drama meet contemporary dynamism. Once the stomping ground of Christopher Marlowe, Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Pepys and Admiral Nelson’s mistress, this neighbourhood has reinvented itself through waves of migration and…

15th century London boils with political strife as the great houses of Lancaster and York battle to rule the kingdom Visit significant sites from the Wars of the Roses in the City of London, starting at the Globe to learn about Shakespeare’s later writings on the decades-long drama before heading off to hear of how…

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