Unusual Walks
“London Walks makes the new familiar and the familiar new.”
So every London Walk – by definition – is “unusual.”
But what we mean here by the term “unusual” is walks that aren’t immediately obvious. For the most part they fall into two categories.
1. Walks – like Brook Green: The Secret Side of Hammersmith – that go off the beaten path, that explore an unfamiliar, largely unregarded part of London – a part of London it wouldn’t have occurred to you to visit. A part of London you perhaps haven’t even heard of.
2. Walks – like T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Tour – that follow a rarefied thread. A thread you hadn’t noticed – or didn’t know was there – through an otherwise well-known part of London.
And don’t be under any misapprehensions – these are not “junior varsity” walks. Every one of them is A-List* – they’re just A-Listers that are less well known. See, by way of example, the review, below, of Rick Jones’ Wasteland Tour.
*Jessica’s February 2022 review of The Waste Land Tour: “In 20 years of London Walks, I think this is the best one I have ever been on. Rick is simply marvellous. I studied the Waste Land extensively at university but I never understood it the way I did after this tour. The stops are thoughtfully chosen to illustrate certain passages and Rick peppers in sprinklings of music and literature and history – he also sings beautifully and tells stories beautifully – it gives the Waste Land a new depth and humour. He recites long passages of the poem so that you can hear the music in them and speaks in the voices of the characters – all at once you recognize them as people, the kind of people who weave in and out of the streets all around you. It’s a beautiful homage to the City, to London, to Eliot, and to thousands of years of history that swirl around in the Waste Land. (But to be clear, even if you don’t care about this poem, this is still a WONDERFUL walk – the poem just serves as the anchor and you bob in and out of the poem and the history).”
Undiscovered London, Butlers Wharf and Shad Thames
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Wednesday)
Four words* that make my blood race: “hasn’t yet been discovered.” *Right up there with hidden places, hidden history
On the scene at the Great Fire of London
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
We track the Great Fire from east to west, landmark by landmark...
T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land Tour
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 @ 11.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"in 20 years of London Walks this is the best one I've ever been on"
Gin Lane: William Hogarth and the Gin Craze
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
The Tate Modern Highlights Tour
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
Guided by arts critic Rick Jones, Secretary of the Critics Circle
Medical Tour: All Around the University – Firsts & Inventions in the History of Medicine
Thursday, 12 December 2024 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Thursday)
Just a little prick… from Edward Jenner to AstraZeneca
The Christmas Tree(s) Walk
Thursday, 12 December 2024 @ 4 pm (Click here for more dates)
London adazzle – its most glorious constellation of Christmas trees...
Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel Tour (Small group tour)
Thursday, 12 December 2024 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
The City Churches Tour
Friday, 13 December 2024 @ 10.30 am (This walk goes every Friday)
"Fan vaulting, Bow bells, a Mediterranean courtyard, a sermon timer and a mighty organ beneath Christopher Wren's most beautiful dome"
Harry Potter Film Locations in the City
Saturday, 14 December 2024 @ 11 am (This walk goes every Saturday)
"And now, Harry, let us pursue that flighty temptress, adventure"
The Hampstead Spies – the KGB in NW3
Sunday, 15 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Guided by former ITN Editor Stewart Purvis CBE. "You got Stewart Purvis to guide Hampstead Spies? That's like getting Dan Rather to guide Dealey Plaza"
Classic London Mews & Hidden Passageways
Sunday, 15 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Urban oases, havens of 19th-century tranquillity
The Regent's Canal - King's Cross, Granary Square, St. Pancras
Sunday, 15 December 2024 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"unseen, untrodden, unexplored, unknown London beckons"
The London of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol
Sunday, 15 December 2024 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
An affectionate celebration of the real places behind this timeless classic. A revealing virtual tour of the City Dickens knew so well.
Tate Britain
Monday, 16 December 2024 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Monday)
the best of British painting and sculpture over 500 years – guided by professional arts critic Rick Jones
A Charles Dickens Christmas Virtual Tour – his life, his work & his London
Monday, 16 December 2024 @ 7.30 pm
Weaves an exploration of Victorian London with Dickens's London Life and writing...
Secret Stories & Symbols of the City of London
Tuesday, 17 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The Lure of the Underground
Tuesday, 17 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"subterranean London...London created the Underground and the Underground created London"
Christopher Wren 300th Anniversary
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A celebration of the works of Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723
Tudor London – Walking with Matthew Shardlake (and Barak)
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
"hasn’t changed in 400 years"
Fabulous Fitzrovia & Its Medical Marvels
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 @ 1 pm (Click here for more dates)
"hear about growing mini eyes to understand blindness among other medical marvels..." These and other tales make the scales fall from our eyes.
The Sherlock Holmes Christmas Walk
Wednesday, 18 December 2024 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
We follow the crisscrossing paths of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson as they solve their only original Christmas-time case, and Arthur Conan Doyle as he reaches a crisis in his professional life.
Unexpected London
Friday, 20 December 2024 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"secret places and hidden interiors"
The Christmas Lights Pub Walk
Saturday, 21 December 2024 @ 6.30 pm
The London Winter Solstice Virtual Tour
Saturday, 21 December 2024 @ 7.30 pm
we use ancient methods to divine what is in store for us in 2024
Women of the Abyss – the Victims of Jack the Ripper
Sunday, 22 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"let us not define them only by their deaths"
Virtual Walk: Sherlock Holmes & Conan Doyle at Christmas
Sunday, 22 December 2024 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
An affectionate Yuletide offering from the glory days of the Great Detective and his creator...
Christmas Morning, 1660 - Samuel Pepys' London
Wednesday, 25 December 2024 @ 11 am
Chasing the Ghost of Communist Past: Russian Revolution in London
Thursday, 26 December 2024 @ 4 pm (Click here for more dates)
St. Petersburg on Thames – the cradle of the Russian Revolution. Guided by a fetching young Russian historian.
Mrs Dalloway's London – the 100th Anniversary
Friday, 27 December 2024 @ 9.50 am (Click here for more dates)
We walk with Mrs Dalloway. Walk her London. See it with her eyes.
National Portrait Gallery Friday Late – VIP, Small Group Guaranteed
Friday, 27 December 2024 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
“looking at a portrait transcends time and provides a unique encounter between the viewer and the sitter”
The East India Company – Guided by a Distinguished Diplomat
Saturday, 28 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"London Walks puts you into the hands of an expert on the particular area and topic of a tour" The New York Times
London & the Nutcracker – the Ballet that Changed Christmas
Sunday, 29 December 2024 @ 10.45 am
The Russians came, they saw, they Nutcrackered (danced), they conquered.
The Monday Night Music History Club
Monday, 30 December 2024 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
A brand NEW series of six monthly virtual tours for autumn & winter 2024/25. Hosted by Adam
Empire in a Cup: the History of Tea
Tuesday, 31 December 2024 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The history of tea is hidden amongst the City streets and alleyways...
Hampstead New Year's Eve Walk - See the Fireworks from the Roof of London
Tuesday, 31 December 2024 @ 9 pm
Watch the Fireworks from the Roof of London. Auld lang syne in auld Hampstead.
Ring in the New Year Virtual Tour
Wednesday, 01 January 2025 @ 7 pm
How London has celebrated the New Year over the past 2000 years – and some crystal ball action for 2025
London In The Swinging 60s
Thursday, 02 January 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Sex, drugs, politics & fashion. "A real storyteller who has you spellbound right from the start" Tripadvisor Sept 2022
Foodies' London – Pie Crust to Upper Crust
Thursday, 02 January 2025 @ 10.45 am
"People who love to eat are always the best people" Julia Child
Censored and Forbidden
Thursday, 02 January 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The walking tour history tried to cancel – blasphemy, classified secrets, and scandals...
British Museum Friday Late – VIP, Small Group Guaranteed
Friday, 03 January 2025 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
"the procession – a long movement of incomparable grace and skill"
David Bowie in 1960s London
Saturday, 04 January 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Before Ziggy… Before the Thin White Duke… A walking tour of Bowie's Soho 1963-71. Guided by Adam
Spies & Special Forces
Saturday, 04 January 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
The glittering whirl of Knightsbridge conceals a shadowy world of modern-day assassins, spies, and special forces.
Cat Tails – A Feline Take on London History
Sunday, 05 January 2025 @ 10.15 am (Click here for more dates)
"a walk which combines places, people and the cats who lived there"
The Krays In London Walking Tour
Sunday, 05 January 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The East End Gangland & The Dark Side Of The Swinging 60s
The Street Art Tour
Sunday, 05 January 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"a corkscrew of a route that pops cork after cork of east London's vibrant, heady, dynamic street art scene"
Matthew Shardlake's Tudor London
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
Through Tudor London in the footsteps of C.J Sansom’s dogged, melancholy ‘hero’ Matthew Shardlake and his ‘sidekick’ Barak
The Wonderful Women of Marylebone
Saturday, 18 January 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"Marylebone – a magnet for so many inspiring women"
London's Spymasters
Saturday, 18 January 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"a murky world of treason & treachery, betrayal & murder"
Limehouse - Thames - Docklands
Sunday, 19 January 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"part gentrified, part solidly working class"
When Horses Ran London
Saturday, 25 January 2025 @ 10.45 am
"how much horsepower each bus route needed – amazing eye-opener into a lost city"
Pirates, Press-Gangs and Execution Dock
Saturday, 25 January 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Discover the dark side of the empire...
Foodies' London - The West End
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 @ 10.45 am
"the King's nickname was Tumtum, he had a 47" waist, and every night a cold roast chicken was placed beside his bedside..."
The Wallace Collection
Thursday, 30 January 2025 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A visual – and historical – feast...
The Regent's Canal: King's Cross-Granary Square-Camden
Sunday, 02 February 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
The London of a couple of centuries ago. A London of tunnels and bridges and narrowboats and locks.
The Actress and the King
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 @ 11.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"the first great comedienne..."
Geology and Building Stones in the City of London
Saturday, 08 February 2025 @ 2.30 pm
Award-winning geologist guides "stones ingrained with geological and historical memories"
Brook Green – the Secret Side of Hammersmith
Sunday, 09 February 2025 @ 10.45 am
the fun, the delight of getting to know a London neighbourhood that's a complete revelation
How the West End Was Won
Sunday, 09 February 2025 @ 2.30 pm
How a capital city emerged fit to rule the greatest empire the world had ever known...
THE LONDON SEASON – Living it up in Mayfair & St James's
Tuesday, 11 February 2025 @ 10.45 am
a chance to get up close to a lifestyle that’s often mythologized but rarely examined
The Power of the Thames – Battersea to Westminster
Saturday, 15 February 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"with a space-age American embassy tucked in behind it"
Foodies London in the City – Biscuits & Banquets
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 @ 10.45 am
"People who love to eat are always the best people" Julia Child
Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley in Somers Town
Saturday, 01 March 2025 @ 10.45 am
"a place of poverty and political exiles and refugees and revolutionaries"
Geology and Building Stones in the City of Westminster
Saturday, 01 March 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Guided by a distinguished, award-winning Geologist
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Limehouse
Sunday, 02 March 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"from the Age of Canals to cutting edge, 21-st century London"
The Siege of Sidney Street 1911 – Immigration and Anarchy in the East End
Sunday, 02 March 2025 @ 2.30 pm
aka The Siege of Hell Street
William Morris & Friends
Sunday, 09 March 2025 @ 2 pm
"special not least because we'll be walking along one of the loveliest stretches of the Thames"
CHARLES DICKENS’ LONDON: LOST AND FOUND: a London Walks virtual tour
Sunday, 09 March 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
"Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvelous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer"
Musical Statues
Sunday, 16 March 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
What does history SOUND like? A musical walk around Westminster's statues with Adam
Grosvenor Canal & Battersea Power Station
Sunday, 16 March 2025 @ 2.30 pm
Combines the hidden byways of London's most secret canal and the Thames' mightiest cathedral.
Spies & Spymasters of London – Virtual Tour
Sunday, 16 March 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Top Secret London. Cambridge Five. ‘C’. Secret Service Bureau. OSS & SOE. Le Carré & Smiley. Somerset Maugham & Ashenden. Guided by Richard IV For Your Eyes Only.
Building and Rebuilding the Thames Embankment
Saturday, 26 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"From The Thames to Eternity" guided by a distinguished, award-winning Geologist
The Regent's Canal – River Tyburn to Little Venice
Sunday, 04 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"we step into a different world here, a different world bouquet’d with incidental delights – 'The Upside Down House', for example..."
The Secrets of the Northern Queen Elizabeth Olympics Park
Saturday, 10 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"unique in Britain. A double radial gate lock, it was designed to cope with floods and tides..."
THE MONUMENT, THE MOON AND MALTA: URBAN GEOLOGY ON EASTCHEAP
Saturday, 10 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"one of the best places for spotting fossils in the City"
The Rolling Stones In 60s Soho
Sunday, 11 May 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
Celebrating 60 years of the Rolling Stones. Guided by Adam
The Beggar's Opera
Sunday, 18 May 2025 @ 10.45 am
Of Pimps & Politicians. High culture and low life in 18th Century London. Guided by Adam
Rock'n'Roll London Explorer Day – Barnes, Twickenham & Richmond
Friday, 23 May 2025 @ 9.30 am
A full day Rock'n'Roll exploration of historic southwest London - guided by Adam.
Lawyer-guided Legal London – Inns of Court Exclusive
Friday, 13 June 2025 @ 10 am (Click here for more dates)
Tom's a barrister, Joanne's a criminal defence lawyer. Small group guaranteed.
Ghosts of the Old City on Halloween
Sunday, 26 October 2025 @ 4 pm (Click here for more dates)
All the Ghosts come out for Halloween!
Tours available upon request
We run a ton of private walks. If you to go on any of the walks below, it’s eezy peezy as well. Just give Fiona, Peter, Niamh or Mary a ring on 020 7624 3978 – or email us at [email protected] and we’ll set it up for you and make it happen.
Mayflower Thanksgiving Special
The Thanksgiving Day walk where the Pilgrims began their journey. And Thanksgiving dinner at the historic old Mayflower Pub!
Bankside, Brothels & the Bard
taverns, gambling dens, bear baiting, brothels and theatres
Suffragists, Suffragettes, 'Deeds not Words' – Isobel's New Walk!
History Lost, Found & Decoded...
Justice Miscarried – Let's Deliver for the Postmasters
"the first duty of society is justice"
The Children of Outcast London
It’s a terrible story, it’s a moving story, it will grip you.
River Wandle & Wandsworth Canal
"there's no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England..."
Curtain Up: Theatreland with a Distinguished Actor – Read the Reviews!
"really entertaining"
The Leap Year Walk
A strange amazing day – and walk – that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist."
Gamechangers! The people and events that changed Westminster – and the world.
turning points in history
Urban Geology in St Giles
"particularly exotic and colourful stones" guided by a distinguished, award-winning Geologist
Covent Garden Pub Walk
‘where is there such another maze of streets, courts, lanes and alleys?’ asked Dickens
Sherlock Holmes in the City
We go on the trail in the Square Mile, seeing a surprising amount that Holmes and Watson would still recognise.
Roman London – A Literary & Archaeological Walk
Archaeologist-guided!
Roman London
What did the Romans ever do for us? We know what guide Ian does for the Ukraine and earthquake crisis appeals – he donates his fee.
A Literary Odyssey – Ink & Inspiration in Mayfair & St James's
This walk has been specially created for the Mayfair Times Literary Festival. The charge for this walk is £20 (there are no concessions).
The Peasants' Revolt Anniversary – 'Summer of Blood'
follows the events of the Revolt as the Peasants move through London in June 1381
Mountain Building & Meteorites – the City a professional geologist sees
Rocks of Ages – Urban Geology in the City (guided by a professional geologist)
Tudor London – The City of Wolf Hall
an archaeologist-guided portrait of London in the early 16th-Century
Myths & Legends of London May Day Special Virtual Tour
"we look at evidence for 'Celtic' origins of London and how May Day was celebrated in London"
The Bridge to London
"most of what has passed has left plenty of traces"
Pioneering Paddington
"from the deep past to a vision of the future"
The Quack Doctor's Tour
"the general rule in medicine in Stuart England is ‘better out than in’"
The Rugby Tour – to Accompany the Six Nations Tournament
"with a fine disregard for the rules"
The Decline and Fall of Roman London
What is the evidence? And can we trust it? Archaeologist-guided.
London Before London – Prehistoric London Virtual Tour
henges, barrows, hill forts, hut circles and genetic evidence
19th Century East End – Jews, Anarchists & Workers' Rights
...incendiary publications, industrial strife, revolutionary trade unions, soup kitchens, housing charities and shelters for the homeless.
Hampstead's Other Half
"more about those forgotten than those remembered"
The Grand Union Canal – Kensal Green to Alperton
"there are places along the towpath that are little changed"
Grand Surrey Canal – Rotherhithe, Russia Dock Woodland, Greenland Dock
We could be in 1620. Or May 28, 1940. Or June 6, 1944.
River Lee Navigation – Enfield to Ponders End
"the source and inspiration for one of the great classics of English literature"
The Lost Palace of Downing Street
Take a walk through the most magical corner of the kingdom. Guided by Dan Parry
The London Equinox and Solstice Walk
As the Sun and Moon move around our skies we look at how Londoners organised and celebrated their year throughout history. Guided by Kevin
St David's Day Welsh Walk – by the distinguished Welsh author Rick Jones
"where they sang, wrote poetry and played rugby"
International Women's Day Charity Walk
Trailblazers of the East End – Guided by Laura
The History & Archaeology of London Bridge
"London bridge is the key to much of the history of London"
Myths & Legends – the Halloween Virtual Tour
"and we do some serious archaeology – attend to the legend-archaeology 'fit'"
How the British Fell in Love with Curry
"The national dish is no longer fish and chips, it's curry"
London – 1066 and All That
1. "we explore the London that William conquered" 2. "we lay bare how he changed England for all time"
London, A Heart of Stone
"a feast of stunning art and architecture"
Charles Dickens Christmas Festival - Castle, Cathedral, Carols, Costumed Characters, Parade, Reindeer, Guaranteed Snow
The best Dickens Christmas Festival in the world!
Christmas with Jane Austen Virtual London Tour
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen devotee must be in want of this virtual tour"
Myths, Legends & Halloween Walk
The walk tells the story of London's myths , legends and the celtic origins of Halloween. Guided by Kevin
London's Burning – The Anniversary Walk
The blaze illuminated the streets like the sun at noon. Even the night sky bore a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven. The trailing column of smoke extended 50 miles in length.
An American in London: Famous Visitors from Across the Pond
Guided by the author of The Lonely Planet Guide to London
Immigration and Food Walk
Almost a third of all Londoners are now foreign-born, representing 270 different nationalities and 300 languages. Guided by Steve F
London Myths, Legends & Halloween Virtual Walk – Archaeology Rules OK!
“Tis the night—the night. Of the grave's delight"
Horses Past, Horses Present – Horse Power in London Society
"reveals the vast importance of horses in asserting the position of those in power"
The Music Of Royal London
Scandal! Adultery! Big Bangs! Our royal story is an opera in itself. Guided by Adam.
Harlots & Bawds - the Georgian sex trade.
Alex takes a look at the world of the 18th Century sex and brothel trade.
Rock'n'Roll Covent Garden
The history of Rock and Pop in the West End.
Slavery in the City
A story showing people at their worst and best, tells the horrors of the slave trade, the extreme cruelties and yet contains seeds of hope. Guided by Isobel
Saints, Sinners and Sisters
Tradeswomen, writers, lawyers, feminists, martyrs, muses and murderers: women’s stories aren’t always nice, nor are they niche.
Coronation Special: Royal Bastards, England's true life game of thrones
Ever since William the Conqueror (aka William the Bastard) hit the scene in 1066, legitimacy has been a life or death issue for the Royals. Guided by Ian
London on Film Part 1: Frozen in Time in the Square Mile
The old City of London has been a haven for moviemakers for over a century, and here are some of the glorious highlights. Guided by Richard IV
The Decline & Fall of Roman London – Archaeology Virtual Tour
"The first British Brexit?"
Chaucer's Medieval London
Your boon companions on this tour of London in the Middle Ages are a Museum of London archaeologist and the greatest medieval poet of them all... Guided by Kevin
Bless me! deliver me, help, hold me! it's Ian's Valentine's Day Special!
"tiny gas-lit alleyways, unknown even to many Londoners..." N.B. Guide Ian donates all of his fee to charities!
Saints Sinners Sisters
To mark International Women's Day
Sherlock Holmes - Virtual Tour
'The Game's Afoot!' Follow the fascinating adventures of Holmes and Watson (and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) around London's West End. Guided by Richard IV
The Archaeology of London
This walk tells the epic tale of the uncovering of London's past by Archaeologists...
Great Balls of Fire
Temperatures of more than 1000° meant everything was consumed in the inferno...
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Haggerston
"Welcome to an English rainforest of different types of trees and plants. Then a POW! of a contrast..."
Shakespeare in the City
"William the Conqueror!" N.B. Guide Ian donates 100 percent of his fee to the Horizon Scandal Fund! And London Walks donates 75 percent of its commission to the Fund.
Up the Cally
"An amazingly varied walk..."
Slow-Speed Trail of High-Speed Rail
Whoa! Wow! Peekaboo HS2 & Javelin
The Arsenal Story
Walk the same streets as Colin Firth in Fever Pitch...
Fables, Fashions & Feasts
"200 years in 2 hours"
Elizabethan Clerkenwell
Now a chic London neighbourhood but then 'a haunt of thieves and whores'
Grand Surrey Canal, Royal Navy Victualling Yard, Greenland Dock
A get away from it all walk – down on that towpath it's 200 years ago.
MEDICAL SOUTHWARK
Doctor-guided.
Islington Between the Wars
This unusual, highly original walk – indeed, it's sui generis...
Highbury – Grand Houses & Grander Stadiums
History, architecture, films, the Gunners, a Ripper candidate and for good measure, a short nature walk
Monarchs and Maladies
"their excesses, their maladies, their treatment, their cadres of medical attendants, their post-mortems..." Guided by a Physician
The Cotswolds
The achingly beautiful Cotswolds...
The Grand Union Canal – Little Venice & Paddington Green
"a secret corner of London closed to the public for 200 years"
The Devil's Acre
Phwoar! Wrong side of the Westminster tracks – crime, grime and where the bodies are buried
Chaucer's Medieval London
Your boon companions on this tour of London in the Middle Ages are a former London Museum archaeologist and the greatest medieval poet of them all.
The Peasants' Revolt Anniversary Virtual Tour
"see the invisible and understand the inscrutable"
Regent's Canal – Islington to Mile End
Jollying our way along a handsome, tree-lined canal on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Perfect.
The Guy Fawkes Tour – Gunpowder, Treason & 5th of November Plot
"Guy Fawkes was hanged, cut down while still alive, castrated, disembowelled... onlookers were never able to forget that he was conscious throughout the process"
Eastcheap & the Tower – Reading the Stones (Urban Geology with UCL Geologist Dr Ruth Siddall)
Urban Geology < Fossils, Volcanoes, Seas, Asteroids and Time
London in Poetry
Free booklet of London poems. Double act. David guides. RSC actor Steve performs the poems.
The Isle of Dogs
"there’s no other place like it in London"
Eccentric London
"London is stranger than fiction"
Old Dulwich Village
Dulwich is a world – a hamlet – unto itself. There's no other place like it in London. Be sure to bring your camera.
Doctors' London – Guided by a Physician
Doctors' London – Pox & Plague, Leeches & Quacks. Guided by a Physician.
Charming Chiswick
Old, picturesque, storied, full of character, riverine, tucked away on its isthmus, sitting pretty – that’s Chiswick.
Kew Gardens in Springtime!
Spring in Kew Gardens. Includes the newly opened, breathtakingly beautiful Temperate House.
Karl Marx in London – Walkers of the World Unite!
Walkers of the World Unite!
The London of Oscar Wilde Tour
The Oscar of our literary walks. "I can resist everything except temptation" Oscar Wilde.
The Knifeman Tour - Hunterian Museum
Follow Dr Barry Walsh in footsteps of the famous surgeon Dr John Hunter
The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields – Riches to Rags
Explores Spitalfields, chronicles the lives and times of the Huguenot silk weavers...
Slavery & the City
"No country profited more from slavery and the slave trade..."
Secret Islands of Green – Hidden Gardens of the City
The green in the grey – the hidden gardens of the City of London.
Walworth Old & New
Open Studios Day in 'the seriously hip artists' quarter'
Jane Austen's London – on the trail of the great novelist
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen devotee in possession of the good fortune of a couple of free hours must be in want of this walk"
Fair Maids, Feminists & Philanthropists
To mark International Women's Day
Docklands
"...the most extraordinary letter in London's alphabet"
Cholera & Casanova
"Sex and death, the two subjects everybody's interested in..." Guided by a Physician
Cambridge - "can such places be?"
"Miraculum orbis. Wonder of the world, annexe to heaven..."
Bohemian Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia: central London's best-kept secret
Belgravia Pub Walk
"best medley of lost lanes and hidden passageways in all of London"
The World of Belgravia – its palaces, its secrets, its hidden byways
...this place breathes money
"Bond, James Bond" – The London of 007 & Ian Fleming
"Shaken not stirred"