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.
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...
Walking Tour – Beneath London’s Streets
A tour about things under the ground, featuring a church crypt, Roman remains, underground shops and...
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...
Walking Tour – Dickens in Rochester
Rochester's buildings and people inspired much of Charles Dickens writing. Here the work inspired by...
Walking Tour – Roaring Twenties Through Writers’ Eyes
Jazz, cocktails, fast cars and the Bright Young Things through the eyes of Waugh, Coward, Christie,...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
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 – Warrior Women
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
Walking Tour – Greenwich Highlights: Monarchs, Martyrs and Mariners
An afternoon stroll in beautiful, historic Greenwich – from fishing and hunting to a naval powerhous...
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...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
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...
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...
Walking Tour – Six Islington Squares
Enjoy an afternoon looking at the domestic architecture of 19th century Islington. Enjoy an afterno...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
Virtual Tour – Modernist Hampstead
In this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in...
Walking Tour – Warrior Women
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
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...
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...
Walking Tour – Fact & Fiction in Fitzrovia
Take a walk from Warren Street to Tottenham Court Road to discover Fact & Fiction in FitzroviaFi...
Walking Tour – Warrior Women
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
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...
Virtual Tour – Down to Margate
Margate has been a popular seaside destination for Londoners since the 1700s when it had its own soc...
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...
Walking Tour – London Destroyed
This walk looks at sci-fi and dystopian fiction in which London has been destroyed - either by flood...
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 – Secret Writing
Celebrate the secret world in words!Photo: Cambridge Circus Sign - © David Charnick 2020What's your...
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,...
Behind Westminster Abbey
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
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 – Squares, Circles, Triangles – Literary Bloomsbury
Join Stephen to explore the Bloomsbury of Virginia Woolf and her friends. They lived in squares, pai...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
Walking Tour – The Literary City
Discover the City's rich literary heritage, from a pub frequented by Dr Johnson and Dickens, to the...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
Walking Tour – Rose Macaulay’s Wilderness
Rose Macaulay's 'The World My Wilderness' conjures up the devastation of the post-war City.Rose Maca...
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...
Warrior Women Walk Tour
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
Walking Tour – Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous East End
Explore Peter Ackroyd's shadowy East End!Photo: St Anne Limehouse (detail) - © 2018 Alan TuckerPeter...
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...
Walking Tour – The Liberty of Romford
This walk around Romford celebrates the Liberty Line - the new name for the London Overground betwee...
Walking Tour – Constable’s Hampstead
Discover the Georgian and Regency Hampstead that Constable walked, painted and wrote aboutFrom 1819...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...
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...
Behind Westminster Abbey Walk
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...
Behind Westminster Abbey Walk
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
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...
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...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
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...
Walking Tour – Barnaby Rudge and the Gordon Riots
Relive Dickens's dramatic retelling of the 1780 anti-Catholic riots that consumed London.Barnaby Rud...
Walking Tour – Roaring Twenties Through Writers’ Eyes
Jazz, cocktails, fast cars and the Bright Young Things through the eyes of Waugh, Coward, Christie,...
Warrior Women Walk Tour
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...
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...
Walking Tour – Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad
Alexander Pope's 18th century satirical poem The Dunciad, highlights the stupidity and lack of taste...
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...
Behind Westminster Abbey Walk
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
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...
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 – The Rich and Poor of Marylebone
Take a walk round Marylebone, the affluent village in the centre of London where extreme poverty and...
Warrior Women Walk Tour
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
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...
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...
Warrior Women Walk Tour
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
Behind Westminster Abbey Walk
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
Walking Tour – The Trollopes of Bloomsbury
Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Discover their real...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...
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 – Samuel Johnson of Fleet Street
Celebrate Dictionary Johnson with his own words!Photo: Samuel Johnson by Percy Fitzgerald (detail),...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...
Virtual Tour – Exploring Roman London
Find out what you can see of Roman London on this virtual tourWhile the remains of Roman London migh...
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...
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...
Warrior Women at the National Portrait Gallery
From Elizabeth I to wartime spies, meet the extraordinary women who changed history over 400 years.A...
Walking Tour – Literary Soho
Visit the home of the creator of the vampire in literature, the birthplace of a visionary writer and...
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...
Warrior Women Walk Tour
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...
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...
Behind Westminster Abbey Walk
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
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 "...
Warrior Women Walk Tour
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
Walking Tour – Slow Horses : London Rules
Based on the Slough House series of books by Mick HerronSlough House is where MI5 sends its losers (...
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...
Walking Tour – The Trollopes of Bloomsbury
Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Discover their real...
Warrior Women Walk Tour
A walk through Westminster meeting extradordinary and inspirational women who changed history. Be gr...
Walking Tour – Peter Daubeny’s World of Theatre
Celebrate the man who brought the world to the London stage!Photo: Aldwych Theatre canopy - © David...
Behind Westminster Abbey Walk
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
Walking Tour – Prime Ministers’ Homes
The Prime Minister lives at 10 Downing Street of course! But where have they lived before and after...
Walking Tour – Literature on the Thames
A literary odyssey along the Thames from Vauxhall to Barking ReachThe River Thames has inspired writ...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...
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...
Behind Westminster Abbey Walk
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
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...
History Makers at the National Portrait Gallery
Discover the inspiring and exciting life stories behind some of the people who have shaped British h...
Virtual Tour – Wandsworth’s Best Buildings
Rob talks about his favourite buildings in the London Borough of Wandsworth, including the former Yo...
Behind Westminster Abbey Walk
The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...
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