Richard III
Richard III is the only London Walks guide to have addressed the United Nations and make the cover of Newsweek. He’s the scion of a Lord Mayor of London, a stand-up comic, and a writer, actor and director. But why not hear it from him – here he is on our Meet Your Guide show.
All of Richard III's Walks
Darkest Victorian London
Monday, 12 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Monday)
"Elsewhere is always surprising... " "history as a seance" "Victorian underside of modern London"
Old Mayfair
Tuesday, 13 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"the champagne & caviar of London Walks"
Little Venice – the pursuit of pleasure
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
"Shaughan was something else with his jokes and songs and obvious knowledge of the area..."
Hampstead Village & Heath Walking Tour
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"the jewel in the London Walks crown" The New York Times
Ghosts, Gaslight & Guinness
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 @ 7.30 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
"Unutterably old, built over a fen of undisclosed horrors, believed to contain occult lines of geometry..."
A Soho Saunter – Real, Not Virtual!!!!!!!
Friday, 16 May 2025 @ 10.15 am (This walk goes every Friday)
"noisy, bawdy, dirty and sexy, and one of the few quarters in London that has kept its character, warts and all"
Charles Dickens's London
Friday, 16 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Friday)
"a sojourn into a lost city – an Atlantis"
Along the Thames Pub Walk
Friday, 16 May 2025 @ 6 pm (This walk goes every Friday)
"the most exciting walk in London, it does more to interpret the city than anything else, a real skeleton key"
Knightsbridge Pub Walk
Friday, 16 May 2025 @ 7 pm (This walk goes every Friday)
"a collector's corner of mews, lanes and cosiness"
Notting Hill & Portobello Market
Saturday, 17 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Saturday)
"Notting Hill on market morning – curious and colourful, offbeat and yeasty"
The Heart of the City
Saturday, 17 May 2025 @ 2 pm (This walk goes every Saturday)
History haunted. Secretive in the extreme.
Highgate Village – "a place apart"
Sunday, 18 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Sunday)
Make a day of it? 1) the walk 2) Kenwood House for lunch 3) visit Highgate Cemetery?
Secret Soho & Its Pubs
Sunday, 18 May 2025 @ 7 pm (This walk goes every Sunday)
See buzzing Soho with a stylish, whip-smart guide. Sunday night at 7 pm.
Crime & Punishment – the City of the Gallows
Tuesday, 24 June 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"a person who is tired of crime is tired of life" Horace Rumpole
Christmas Morning, 1660 - Samuel Pepys' London
Thursday, 25 December 2025 @ 11 am
The Christmas Day Charles Dickens London Walk
Thursday, 25 December 2025 @ 2 pm
Other walks in Richard III's repertoire.
They run occasionally as 'Specials' but can also be booked privately.
Legal London – the Inns of Court
"the legal equivalent of Buckingham Palace, but unlike the royal residence we can get inside, explore it, wander around the Inns Court..." Guided by Richard III
Notting Hill and Holland Park
The carnival, the market and the movie... Guided by Richard III
Karl Marx in London – Walkers of the World Unite!
Walkers of the World Unite!
Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol & Seasonal Traditions
We'll deck the streets of London with balls of jolly...