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 – Chelsea – Family, Fame and Infamy
Despite the compact geographical footprint, the walk is packed with a more varied social history tha...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
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...
Virtual Tour – A Victorian Christmas in Islington
This online looks at the how Christmas was celebrated in Islington during the Victorian period with...
Virtual Tour – Letchworth – The First Garden City
Letchworth is where social reformer Ebenezer Howard put his idea of the Garden City into practice -...
Walking Tour – Chelsea Christmas Cracker
Enjoy the fantastic lights and Christmas shop windows of Chelsea this year, all the festive hum with...
Virtual Tour – A Dickens of a City
Explore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! Photo: Marshalsea Prison Wall - © David...
Walking Tour – A Dickens of a City
Explore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! Photo: Marshalsea Prison Wall - © David...
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 – The Way to Botany Bay: Sentenced to Transportation
History of Islington youths convicted of theft and condemned to hang who were instead shipped to Aus...
Walking Tour – Cows, Cloth-Sellers and the Condemned: Smithfield’s Pubs
The history of Smithfield through its iconic pubs: the markets, the monsateries, executions, Barts F...
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 – The Blitz and Preserving History in the City
Discover the events of 29 December 1940 and what was rescued, revealed and restored in the City afte...
Sex for Sale in Wartime: Piccadilly Commandos, Good-Time Girls and the GIs
A Friendly Invasion of US military in 1942 led to a boom for sex workers, pimps and women living in...
Walking Tour – Booze and the Borough
Come celebrate a world of inns, hops and beer! Photo: Site of Barclay Perkins Brewery - © David Char...
Virtual Tour – Booze and the Borough
Come celebrate a world of inns, hops and beer! Photo: Site of Barclay Perkins Brewery - © David Char...
Walking Tour – Cows, Cloth-Sellers and the Condemned: Smithfield’s Pubs
The history of Smithfield through its iconic pubs: the markets, the monsateries, executions, Barts F...
Virtual Tour – True Spy Stories
Spy stories from the streets of London during World War One and Two A 50 minute talk about espionage...
Virtual Tour – The First Voyages of The East India Company
Stories of the fragile beginnings of the East India Company with their first journeys to Indonesia,...
Virtual Tour – Hackney’s Best Buildings
London Borough of Hackney has a wonderful variety of buildings from Tudor Sutton House to modern Bri...
Virtual Tour – Down to Margate
Margate has been a popular seaside destination for Londoners since the 1700s when it had its own soc...
Virtual Tour – Ships built in London
The stories of ships built in London from the sailing ships of Tudor times to the battleships of Wor...
Virtual Tour – A Journey Along The Northumberland Coast
A virtual journey visiting the castles , country houses, beautiful beaches and ancient abbeys along...
Virtual Tour – Wandsworth’s Best Buildings
Rob talks about his favourite buildings in the London Borough of Wandsworth, including the former Yo...
Walking Tour – London’s Port History – Part 3 The Royal Docks
The 3rd of 4 walks telling the story of the port of London looks at the huge docks built for steamsh...
Virtual Tour – South Wales – Landscape and Industry
A virtual tour through South Wales from Chepstow to Worm's Head looking at industrial history t...
Walking Tour – Dissenters of Newington Green
In the 18th century Newington Green was home to a group of religious dissenters who discussed politi...
Walking Tour – Il Quartiere – Tales From Italian Clerkenwell
Tales of love, bravery, crime and friendship from Italian Clerkenwell 1830-1950 From the mid 19th...
Virtual Tour – Ealing’s Best Buildings
Rob talks about his favourite buildings in the Borough of Ealing, from the Art Deco Hoover building...
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...
Walking Tour – In Search of Churchill
Explore the political career of one of Britain's greatest statesmen! Photo: Churchill Statue by...
Virtual Tour – Hillingdon’s Best Buildings
Hillingdon is one of London's biggest boroughs and one of the most architecturally varied - fro...
Virtual Tour – East Coast Shipwrecks
The sad tales of ships that have met their fate on England's treacherous North Sea Coast With s...
Virtual Tour – The Battle of Waterloo Remembered
This Virtual Tour looks at how the news of the Battle of Waterloo reached London and how Londoners r...
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...
Virtual Tour – Hertfordshire – Countryside on London’s Border
Hertfordshire may be one of the smaller counties in Britain, but it has so much to see and all so cl...
Walking Tour – London’s Port History – Part 4 The Surrey Docks and Dockland
The 4th of 4 walks telling the story of the port of London looks at home the Surrey Commercial Docks...
Walking Tour – St David’s Day : The Welsh in Westminster
Walking Tour - Diverse London - The Welsh in Westminster London has always been a cosmopolitan city....
Walking Tour – Monica Ali’s Brick Lane – Bengali History in the East End
Bengalis have been arriving in London for centuries. In this novel a young married woman at first ho...
Walking Tour – Literary Women of the City
Walking Tour - Literary Women of the City On today’s walks – we will wander around the City of Londo...
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...
Walking Tour – Exploring Margate
Margate has long been a favourite with Londoners. This walk looks at visitors to Margate from George...
Walking Tour – Memoir of a Blitz Childhood – World’s End Chelsea
Donald James grew up poor when the Luftwaffe was targetting nearby Lots Road Power Station. Scars of...
Walking Tour – Literary Southwark : Poets, Writers and 2 Famous Diarists!
A wander around the literary heritage of Southwark On today’s walk, we will be venturing through the...
Walking Tour – Around Tripcock Ness – The History of the Thamesmead Area
A walk that tells the story of the Woolwich Arsenal, Thamesmead and a dangerous bend in the river Th...
Walking Tour – Industrial History of Dagenham Dock
Dagenham is instantly associated with the huge Ford factory that opened in 1931, but many other indu...
Walking Tour – Czech Shoes and Mucking Flats – the Thames at East Tilbury
This walk visits the village that was built around the Bata shoe factory in the 1930s, then follows...
Walking Tour – A Visit to Herne Bay
Herne Bay is little sea side town on the North Kent coast overlooking the Thames Estuary that is fil...
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...
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...
Walking Tour – The Battle of Waterloo Remembered
This walk looks at the Battle of Waterloo's impact on London - the Londoners who were at the ba...
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