Tour Charles Dickens’s London on Boxing Day with Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London, and the capital’s most prolific tour guide

The tour takes place on Friday the 26th of December 2025, which just happens to be Boxing Day this year.

It starts outside Farringdon Station on Cowcross Street at 11:a.m – 12:45 (approx), finishing near St Paul’s Cathedral.

• Please book on Eventbrite.

• Free to register. The tourist board suggests tipping around £12 at the end if you think the tour was worth it.

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Dickens is London.

No author has explored and explained the capital in such depths, with such warmth, humour and empathy.

Dickens called London his “magic lantern”.

Ed Glinert, a Penguin Classics editor, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London, and the capital’s most prolific tour guide, leads this Boxing Day tour of Charles Dickens’ haunts around the Old Bailey, Clerkenwell and Smithfield, with excerpts from Bleak House, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and more.