Architecture
London Christmas Day Walk
Join us in London on Christmas Day for an exciting, entertaining, enlightening guided tour led by London’s leading historian, Ed Glinert. Author of Penguin’s lauded London Compendium, East End Chronicles and West End Chronicles, the capital’s most prolific tour guide, leads this saunter through the West End and Westminster as we meander through the mysterious mews of Mayfair, stylish St James’s and sleazy Soho.
Charles Dickens’ London
No author has explored and explained the capital in such depths, with such warmth, humour and empathy.
Free Boxing Day Tour in London – Dickens called London his “magic lantern”.
Ed Glinert, a Penguin Classics editor and London’s most prolific tour guide, leads this Boxing Day tour of Charles Dickens’ old City of London, with accounts and locations from Bleak House, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and more.
The Big Big Christmas Day London Walk
Festive, friendly, fascinating and fun… It’s the big big Christmas Day tour, and once again it’s on the 25 December.
You’re in London and you want to meet Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, Noddy Holder, the Queen, Arsene Wenger, the head of MI6, and Boris Johnson. Well, you can…metaphorically…by joining us on this bumper festive tour through the capital.
Secrets of MI5
This tour: Sunday 26 January 2020. Meet: Outside the Amba Hotel at Charing Cross Station, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Believe nothing, believe no one. Walk on the other side of the street. Stay in the shadows. It’s a nasty world out...
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Walk
This tour: Friday 27 December, 11am. Meet: Goodge Street station. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Two days after Christmas, and Sherlock Holmes is lounging upon the sofa in a “purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and a...
Jack The Ripper
This is more than a shock horror tale of murdered prostitutes. Join our zoom tour as we trawl the mean streets of the East End and you’ll see that this becomes a journey into one of the greatest cover-ups and conspiracies in British history.
Pub Tours
No matter whether you live in London or Los Angeles, Acton or Aachen, Camden Town or Camden New Jersey, you can never tire, as Dr Johnson wanted to say, of an hour in Charles Dickens’s favourite, the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. Or there’s the chance to sup with the great...
Music Tours
London in a Day
Big Ben, the Tower, Buck House, St Paul’s, the Eye, Westminster Abbey, the gates of No. 10, Covent Garden, the building where they chopped off Charles’ I’s head – all those landmark London locations you wanted to see in one day. Can it be done? Yes! and no waiting...
New London Walks
This is a post about New London Walks.The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia...