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SUMMARY:Charles Dickens’ London tour on Boxing Day
DESCRIPTION: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 \nThe tour takes place on Friday the 26th of December 2025\, which just happens to be Boxing Day this year. \nIt starts outside Farringdon Station on Cowcross Street at 11:a.m – 12:45 (approx)\, finishing near St Paul’s Cathedral. \n• Please book on Eventbrite. \n• Free to register. The tourist board suggests tipping around £12 at the end if you think the tour was worth it. \n*** \nDickens is London.\nNo author has explored and explained the capital in such depths\, with such warmth\, humour and empathy. \nDickens called London his “magic lantern”. \nEd 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.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/charles-dickens-london-tour-on-boxing-day/
LOCATION:Farringdon Station\, Cowcross Street\, London\, EC1M 6BY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours
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SUMMARY:Christmas Day tour in London\, December 2025
DESCRIPTION:Calling all Londoners and festive visitors to the capital. Want to build up an appetite before Christmas dinner? Psyching yourself up before watching the King giving his speech\, or before treating the family to a downloaded version of Top of the Pops 1973? \nThen book onto New London Walks’ annual tour: \n“Christmas Day in London – the Power\, Corruption & Lies tour”.\nThe tour takes place on Thursday\, the 25th of December 2025\, which just happens to be Christmas Day this year\, and starts at Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square at 10:30 a.m. It lasts around 4 hours and we usually find a friendly cafe open\, even though it’s Christmas\, for a breather half way. We finish back at Nelson. \nThis is a walk around the corridors\, okay the streets\, of Westminster and Whitehall\, the very centres of political intrigue\, so that Ed Glinert\, London’s most entertaining and informed historian and tour guide\, can reveal the most fascinating\, eye-opening and ridiculous stories\, scandals and secrets – from where the monarch goes down into the nuclear bunker\, to the secret tunnel that connects No. 10 to Buck Palace\, to the tube station used by the Nazis to spy on MI6\, and a host of similar tales that you always wanted to know about. This is all very topical\, because after years of acting in the public’s interest\, our politicians have suddenly started behaving strangely. \nEd Glinert has conducted more than a thousand tours of London\, and written Penguin’s London Compendium (2003)\, the most important book on the capital this century; and Penguin’s East End Chronicles and West End Chronicles. He is a tour guide trained by the Institute of Tourist Guiding. \n•Please book on Eventbrite. \n•Cost: £66.66 including booking fee. \n•Catch this tour before Glinert gets arrested by the security services for betraying the nation’s secrets.
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/christmas-day-tour-in-london-december-2025/
LOCATION:Nelson’s Column\, Trafalgar Square\, Charing Cross\, London\, WC2N 5DU
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours
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SUMMARY:Sherlock Holmes at Christmas - virtual tour
DESCRIPTION:I called on my friend Sherlock Holmes on the 2nd morning after Christmas with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season…\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is it?\n\n\nSo begins the classic Conan Doyle 1892 Christmas short story mystery “The Blue Carbuncle”. \nSet in central London and the West End\, we find Holmes and Watson tearing around the capital in search of a priceless gem stolen from the hotel suite of the Countess of Morcar. But how did the jewel end up in the throat of a goose\, fatted for Christmas\, and why is Holmes examining a battered old hat belonging to a Henry Baker when Watson calls? \nEd Glinert\, editor of Penguin Classics’ Sherlock Holmes stories and prolific London tour guide\, reveals the story while taking you around the London haunts connected with the tale on this Zoom version of his regular Christmas walk. \nWhen is it?\nDecember 27\, 2020 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM GMT \nHow do I book?\nThis tour is available to book through Eventbrite
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/sherlock-holmes-at-christmas-virtual-tour/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours,Virtual Tours
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SUMMARY:Charles Dickens at Christmas virtual tour
DESCRIPTION:What it is\nZoom tour: Saturday 26 December 2020\, 11am. Cost: £7.50. \nJoin leading London historian Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London\, cruise ships speaker and one of the most prolific tour guides in the country\, on this original festive Zoom tour-talk around the great author’s London haunts. \nEd Glinert writes: “I have devised this tour so that the public can share my enthusiasm for London’s greatest author\, whose works I constantly read and whose sojourns around the capital I have detailed in various books\, such as Penguin’s Literary Guide to London and Penguin’s London Compendium. \nI am now running New London Walks to offer residents of and visitors to the world’s greatest city new and exciting insights into its remarkable history. In view of the current restrictions\, I have devised this Zoom version of the walking tour we did last Boxing Day in which we explore Charles Dickens’s dillies and dallies around Bloomsbury\, Covent Garden and Strand\, starting at the site of the abominable Blacking Factory by the Thames where he worked as a child and ending at his Doughty Street repos\, now the Dickens Museum. This format means we can cover so much more ground than possible on a normal walking tour…the schlep to Doughty Street would defeat even Sydney Carton wandering\, stalking\, drifting or creeping through the streets! \nWhere we go\n\nLincoln’s Inn Hall\, where the Lord High Chancellor sites at the very heart of the fog.\nThe Old Curiosity Shop on Portsmouth Street\, near Lincoln’s Inn Fields.\nWarren’s Blacking Factory on Hungerford Stairs\, “a crazy\, tumble-down old house\, abutting the river\, literally overrun with rats” (okay\, it’s gone now)\, where in 1823 Dickens\, aged 12\, earned the princely sum of six shillings a week pasting labels on jars of shoe polish.\nThe Gin shops of Drury Lane as featured in Sketches By Boz.\nBow Street magistrates’ Court where the Artful Dodger demanded his “priwileges”.\n48 Doughty Street\, Bloomsbury where Dickens lived and completed Oliver Twist\, and wrote Nicholas Nickleby\, and which is now the Charles Dickens Museum.\n\n…and much much more  \nAnd why \nDickens IS Christmas. \nWithout London’s greatest author we would have no ghosts of Christmas past\, no Christmas presents\, no Christmas cards\, no Christmas tree. Oh\, all right\, we might have had some of those\, but we definitely wouldn’t have had this tasty Turkey-time morsel from A Christmas Carol. \n“No fog\, no mist; clear\, bright jovial\, stirring\, cold; cold\, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh\, glorious! Glorious!” \nEd Glinert\, author of Penguin’s Literary Guide to London\, leaves Scrooge to freeze with his humbug to lead this festive tour around Charles Dickens’s central London haunts\, from Lincoln’s Inn (where at the very heart of the fog\, sits the Lord High Chancellor) to Covent Garden and beyond. \n How do I book?\nThis tour is available to book through Eventbrite \n 
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/charles-dickens-at-christmas-virtual-tour/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours,Virtual Tours
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SUMMARY:Samuel Pepys Christmas Morning 1660 Virtual Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join leading London historian Ed Glinert\, author of Penguin’s London Compendium\, cruise ships speaker\, and one of the most prolific tour guides in the country\, on this festive Zoom tour-talk he invented around the great diarist’s London haunts. \nEd Glinert writes: “I devised this tour in 2004 and ran it for several years for the London Walks company. I am now running New London Walks to offer residents of and visitors to the world’s greatest city new and exciting insights into its remarkable history. In view of the current restrictions\, I have devised this original Zoom version\, which means we can cover the entire sweep of the capital – all Pepys’s haunts\, from Downing Street to the Tower – that we could never get to without walking all day!” \nWhere we go\n\n10 Downing Street – Long before the PM’s house was built Samuel Pepys lived here on what was Axe Yard and was where he began his diary on the 1st of January 1660.\nBanqueting House\, Whitehall – Where the 15-year-old Pepys claimed he was in the crowd that saw Charles I being executed in 1649. Sure\, and he probably saw the Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall as well.\nSalisbury Court\, off Fleet Street – Where Pepys was born in 1632 or 1633\, depending on how you view the calendar\, and where in 1658 he underwent a simple operation for kidney stones – without anaesthetic – by eating a supper of fresh meat\, chicken\, pigeon\, eggs\, butter\, barley and water-gruel\, and drinking a mixture of almond\, cucumber and melon: the classic 17th century smoothie.\n8 Drury Lane – Here during the Plague in June 1665 Pepys saw “two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors and ‘Lord have mercy upon us’ writ there”. Aren’t you pleased you live at a time when such epidemics have disappeared?\nThe church of All Hallows Barking by the Tower At the start of the Fire of London in September 1666 Pepys climbed the steeple to see “the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw; every where great fires\, oyle-cellars and brimstone\, and other things burning”.\nThe Tower of London – At the height of his career in 1679\, serving Charles II\, Pepys was falsely accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower. There was a plot against him\, eagerly taken up by his Whig enemies.\n\nAnd why\nIt’s 1660\, not 2020. Christmas has been banned by the Puritan government\, not by Boris Johnson. \n“All persons are to take heed and remember that Christmas Day and all other superstitious festivals are utterly abolished.” \nIt wasn’t a nasty virus or the Great Plague\, which was five years off\, that saw this dastardly decree\, but the Cromwell puritan clan who deemed Christmas to be both pagan and Popish – unchristian. Well\, at least there was some common sense in London. Earlier that year\, on the 1st of January no less\, a teller in the Exchequer under George Downing began writing a diary. \n“Blessed be God\, at the end of the last year I was in very good health\, without any sense of my old pain\, but upon taking of cold.” \nIt was a private secret diary\, not for public consumption\, because he was just a minor civil servant called Samuel Pepys. Yet by accident Samuel Pepys’s diary saw the light of day many years later to become the best\, the funniest\, the sharpest and most human account of that turbulent period of English history. A million words recording the era that saw the short-lived post-monarchy commonwealth of the Cromwells replaced by the restoration of the throne. It was the time of the Great Plague\, the Fire of London and the threat of Dutch invasion – and Pepys was right in the middle of it as he rose through the ranks to become MP for Harwich\, president of the Royal Society\, and chief secretary to the Admiralty while remaining a high-living philanderer and bon vivant. \nHow do I book?\nThis tour is available through Eventbrite \n*** \nEd Glinert* Manchester tour guide & historian\, www.newmanchesterwalks.com* Penguin author* 32 years experience as a journalist (founder City Life\, production editor Mojo\, 10 years with Private Eye)
URL:https://www.newlondonwalks.co.uk/event/samuel-pepys-christmas-morning-1660-virtual-tour/
LOCATION:Zoom Tour
CATEGORIES:Events - Christmas Tours,Famous People,Virtual Tours
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