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).”
Foodies' London – Pie Crust to Upper Crust
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 @ 10.45 am
"People who love to eat are always the best people" Julia Child
Undiscovered London, Butlers Wharf and Shad Thames
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 @ 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
Christopher Wren 300th Anniversary
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A celebration of the works of Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723
T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land Tour
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 @ 11.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"in 20 years of London Walks this is the best one I've ever been on"
The Tate Modern Highlights Tour
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
Guided by arts critic Rick Jones, Secretary of the Critics Circle
Suffragists, Suffragettes – from prison to citizenship ('Dare to be Free')
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"From prison to citizenship"
Gin Lane: William Hogarth and the Gin Craze
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
Suffragists, Suffragettes – 'Dare to be Free'
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm
History Lost, Found & Decoded...
The Swinging 60s
Thursday, 03 April 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
Cat Tails – A Feline Take on London History
Thursday, 03 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"a walk which combines places, people and the cats who lived there"
Decoding the City – Secret Stories & Symbols
Thursday, 03 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"I never knew this was here" London
Medical Tour: All Around the University – Firsts & Inventions in the History of Medicine
Thursday, 03 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Thursday)
Just a little prick… from Edward Jenner to AstraZeneca
The City Churches Tour
Friday, 04 April 2025 @ 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"
British Museum Friday Late – VIP, Small Group Guaranteed
Friday, 04 April 2025 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
"the procession – a long movement of incomparable grace and skill"
Harry Potter Film Locations in the City
Saturday, 05 April 2025 @ 11 am (This walk goes every Saturday)
"And now, Harry, let us pursue that flighty temptress, adventure"
The London of Oscar Wilde Tour
Saturday, 05 April 2025 @ 11 am (This walk goes every Saturday)
The Oscar of our literary walks. "I can resist everything except temptation" Oscar Wilde.
Women of the Abyss – the Victims of Jack the Ripper
Sunday, 06 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"let us not define them only by their deaths"
The Krays In London Walking Tour
Sunday, 06 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The East End Gangland & The Dark Side Of The Swinging 60s
The Secrets of London's Luxury Hotels
Sunday, 06 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"up the red carpet and through the portals into the world of white glove service"
The World of Belgravia – its palaces, its secrets, its hidden byways
Sunday, 06 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
...this place breathes money
Jane Austen's London
Sunday, 06 April 2025 @ 11.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"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"
The Street Art Tour
Sunday, 06 April 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"
Death, Debauchery & Doctors in Soho
Sunday, 06 April 2025 @ 2 pm (This walk goes every Sunday)
The great Soho reveal. Bawdy houses, body snatchers and benevolent doctors through Soho alleyways and past elegant townhouses. Guided by a Doctor.
Chaucer's Medieval London
Sunday, 06 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
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 Regent's Canal: King's Cross-Granary Square-Camden
Sunday, 06 April 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.
Tate Britain
Monday, 07 April 2025 @ 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
The Lure of the Underground
Tuesday, 08 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Tuesday)
"subterranean London...London created the Underground and the Underground created London"
On the scene at the Great Fire of London
Wednesday, 09 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
We track the Great Fire from east to west, landmark by landmark...
Fabulous Fitzrovia & Its Medical Marvels
Wednesday, 09 April 2025 @ 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.
Matthew Shardlake's Tudor London
Wednesday, 09 April 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
National Portrait Gallery Friday Late – VIP, Small Group Guaranteed
Friday, 11 April 2025 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
“looking at a portrait transcends time and provides a unique encounter between the viewer and the sitter”
Spies & Special Forces
Saturday, 12 April 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.
Hampstead's Other Half
Saturday, 12 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"more about those forgotten than those remembered"
Classic London Mews & Hidden Passageways
Sunday, 13 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Urban oases, havens of 19th-century tranquillity
The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields – Riches to Rags
Sunday, 13 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Explores Spitalfields, chronicles the lives and times of the Huguenot silk weavers...
The Devil's Acre
Sunday, 13 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Phwoar! Wrong side of the Westminster tracks – crime, grime and where the bodies are buried
The Wallace Collection
Thursday, 17 April 2025 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A visual – and historical – feast...
The East India Company – Guided by a Distinguished Diplomat
Friday, 18 April 2025 @ 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
When Horses Ran London
Friday, 18 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"how much horsepower each bus route needed – amazing eye-opener into a lost city"
Unexpected London
Friday, 18 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"secret places and hidden interiors"
Chaucer's London to Beckett's Canterbury – a Virtual Pilgrimage
Friday, 18 April 2025 @ 7.30 pm
"the robust independence with which the English led their lives following the Black Death"
Pirates, Press-Gangs and Execution Dock
Saturday, 19 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Discover the dark side of the empire...
The Regent's Canal - King's Cross, Granary Square, St. Pancras
Sunday, 20 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"unseen, untrodden, unexplored, unknown London beckons"
Empire in a Cup: the History of Tea
Monday, 21 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The history of tea is hidden amongst the City streets and alleyways...
Cambridge - "can such places be?"
Tuesday, 22 April 2025 @ 9 am (Click here for more dates)
"Miraculum orbis. Wonder of the world, annexe to heaven..."
St. Albans on the Day of Days!
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 @ 10.45 am
“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England"
Lens on Camden: A Photography Walk with Catriona Gray
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"guaranteed small group, lots of individual attention – and if you want we can get seriously geeky about the art of black and white photography"
Tudor London – Walking with Matthew Shardlake (and Barak)
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
"hasn’t changed in 400 years"
The Cotswolds
Saturday, 26 April 2025 @ 9 am (Click here for more dates)
The achingly beautiful Cotswolds...
London's Spymasters
Saturday, 26 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"a murky world of treason & treachery, betrayal & murder"
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
Roman London – A Literary & Archaeological Walk
Sunday, 27 April 2025 @ 11.30 am
Archaeologist-guided!
Tudor London – The City of Wolf Hall
Sunday, 27 April 2025 @ 3 pm (Click here for more dates)
an archaeologist-guided portrait of London in the early 16th-Century
CHARLES DICKENS’ LONDON: LOST AND FOUND: a London Walks virtual tour
Sunday, 27 April 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"
Foodies' London - The West End
Wednesday, 30 April 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..."
More Luxury Hotels – Their Stories & Secrets
Thursday, 01 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Glitter and glamour, tales and tricks, famous folk and foibles of another handful of London's most frightfully famous lodgings
Bath & Avebury
Friday, 02 May 2025 @ 9 am (Click here for more dates)
Back 250 years...and then 5,000 years
David Bowie in 1960s London
Saturday, 03 May 2025 @ 10.45 am
Before Ziggy… Before the Thin White Duke… A walking tour of Bowie's Soho 1963-71. Guided by Adam
Notting Hill – the Photography Tour
Saturday, 03 May 2025 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
this one's the amazing technicolour dream strobe of a photography course and tour
VE Day Walking Tour
Saturday, 03 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"the passion of former days"
The Music Of Royal London
Sunday, 04 May 2025 @ 10.45 am
Scandal! Adultery! Big Bangs! Our royal story is an opera in itself. Guided by Adam.
Secret Islands of Green – Hidden Gardens of the City
Sunday, 04 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
The green in the grey – the hidden gardens of the City of London.
The Regent's Canal – River Tyburn to Little Venice
Sunday, 04 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"we step into a different world here, a different world bouquet’d with incidental delights – 'The Upside Down House', for example..."
The Actress and the King
Tuesday, 06 May 2025 @ 11.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"the first great comedienne..."
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"
Hampstead Spies – Philby & Comrades
Sunday, 11 May 2025 @ 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"
Kew Gardens in Springtime!
Sunday, 11 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Spring in Kew Gardens. Includes the newly opened, breathtakingly beautiful Temperate House.
The Rolling Stones In 60s Soho
Sunday, 11 May 2025 @ 2 pm
Celebrating 60 years of the Rolling Stones. Guided by Adam
William Morris & Friends
Sunday, 11 May 2025 @ 2 pm
"special not least because we'll be walking along one of the loveliest stretches of the Thames"
Mrs Dalloway's London – the 100th Anniversary
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 @ 9.50 am
We walk with Mrs Dalloway. Walk her London. See it with her eyes.
Musical Statues
Thursday, 15 May 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
What does history SOUND like? A musical walk around Westminster's statues with Adam
Hampstead Spies – The Atomic Secrets
Saturday, 17 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"the two biggest spy scandals in British history both started in Hampstead"
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
Sherlock Holmes - Virtual Tour
Sunday, 18 May 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
'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
Foodies London in the City – Biscuits & Banquets
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 @ 10.45 am
"People who love to eat are always the best people" Julia Child
Rock'n'Roll London Explorer Day – Barnes, Twickenham & Richmond
Friday, 23 May 2025 @ 9.30 am (Click here for more dates)
A full day Rock'n'Roll exploration of historic southwest London - guided by Adam.
Medieval London
Saturday, 24 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"All things in life had about them something glitteringly and cruelly public. The lepers, shaking their rattles..."
The Decline and Fall of Roman London
Sunday, 25 May 2025 @ 3 pm
What is the evidence? And can we trust it? Archaeologist-guided.
Bless me! deliver me, help, hold me!
Monday, 26 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"tiny gas-lit alleyways, unknown even to many Londoners..." N.B. Guide Ian donates all of his fee to charities!
The Siege of Sidney Street 1911 – Immigration and Anarchy in the East End
Saturday, 07 June 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
aka The Siege of Hell Street
The Peasants' Revolt Anniversary – 'Summer of Blood'
Saturday, 07 June 2025 @ 3 pm
follows the events of the Revolt as the Peasants move through London in June 1381
The Power of the Thames – Battersea to Westminster
Saturday, 14 June 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"with a space-age American embassy tucked in behind it"
Old Dulwich Village
Sunday, 15 June 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Dulwich is a world – a hamlet – unto itself. There's no other place like it in London. Be sure to bring your camera.
Spies & Spymasters of London – Virtual Tour
Sunday, 15 June 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.
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Limehouse
Sunday, 22 June 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"from the Age of Canals to cutting edge, 21-st century London"
Highbury – Grand Houses & Grander Stadiums
Sunday, 22 June 2025 @ 2.30 pm
History, architecture, films, the Gunners, a Ripper candidate and for good measure, a short nature walk
Charming Chiswick
Sunday, 29 June 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Old, picturesque, storied, full of character, riverine, tucked away on its isthmus, sitting pretty – that’s Chiswick.
The Bridge to London
Friday, 04 July 2025 @ 6 pm
"most of what has passed has left plenty of traces"
Brook Green – the Secret Side of Hammersmith
Sunday, 13 July 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
the fun, the delight of getting to know a London neighbourhood that's a complete revelation
The Children of Outcast London
Sunday, 13 July 2025 @ 2.30 pm
It’s a terrible story, it’s a moving story, it will grip you.
Pox & Penicillin - Guided by a Public Health Physician
Saturday, 19 July 2025 @ 2.30 pm
Islington Between the Wars
Sunday, 20 July 2025 @ 2.30 pm
This unusual, highly original walk – indeed, it's sui generis...
Lawyer-guided Legal London – Inns of Court Exclusive
Friday, 25 July 2025 @ 10 am (Click here for more dates)
Tom's a barrister, Joanne's a criminal defence lawyer. Small group guaranteed.
Geology and Building Stones in the City of Westminster
Saturday, 26 July 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Guided by a distinguished, award-winning Geologist
Slow-Speed Trail of High-Speed Rail
Saturday, 16 August 2025 @ 10.45 am
Whoa! Wow! Peekaboo HS2 & Javelin
Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley in Somers Town
Sunday, 17 August 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"a place of poverty and political exiles and refugees and revolutionaries"
London, A Heart of Stone
Sunday, 24 August 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"a feast of stunning art and architecture"
Whitehall Affray – Statues of Discord
Thursday, 28 August 2025 @ 10.45 am
"he was so angry he ended up sculpting a horse urinating"
London's Burning – The Anniversary Walk
Tuesday, 02 September 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
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.
Horses Past, Horses Present – Horse Power in London Society
Saturday, 06 September 2025 @ 10.45 am
"reveals the vast importance of horses in asserting the position of those in power"
Pioneering Paddington
Saturday, 04 October 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"from the deep past to a vision of the future"
Cholera & Casanova
Sunday, 12 October 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"Sex and death, the two subjects everybody's interested in..." Guided by a Physician
Elizabethan Clerkenwell
Sunday, 19 October 2025 @ 2.30 pm
Now a chic London neighbourhood but then 'a haunt of thieves and whores'
Limehouse - Thames - Docklands
Sunday, 19 October 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"part gentrified, part solidly working class"
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!
The Guy Fawkes Tour – Gunpowder, Treason & 5th of November Plot
Saturday, 01 November 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"Guy Fawkes was hanged, cut down while still alive, castrated, disembowelled... onlookers were never able to forget that he was conscious throughout the process"
THE LONDON SEASON – Living it up in Mayfair & St James's
Wednesday, 12 November 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
a chance to get up close to a lifestyle that’s often mythologized but rarely examined
The Wonderful Women of Marylebone
Saturday, 06 December 2025 @ 10.45 am
"Marylebone – a magnet for so many inspiring women"
Christmas Morning, 1660 - Samuel Pepys' London
Thursday, 25 December 2025 @ 11 am
How the West End Was Won
Saturday, 03 January 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
How a capital city emerged fit to rule the greatest empire the world had ever known...
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 london@walks.com and we’ll set it up for you and make it happen.
The Civil War, Restoration & Great Fire of London Virtual Tour
Civil War, beheading of the King, a Republic, the Restoration, the last great plague outbreak in the UK, the Glorious Revolution and the Great Wind.
Charles I and the Civil War – the Martyrdom Anniversary Walk
The transformative events of that unforgettable day...
A Virtual Tour of Jane Austen's Bath
As good as it gets: the world’s most perfect Georgian city and scenes from Jane Austen's life and fiction
London & the Nutcracker – the Ballet that Changed Christmas
The Russians came, they saw, they Nutcrackered (danced), they conquered.
Censored and Forbidden
The walking tour history tried to cancel – blasphemy, classified secrets, and scandals...
Mayflower Thanksgiving Special
The Thanksgiving Day walk where the Pilgrims began their journey. And Thanksgiving dinner at the historic old Mayflower Pub!
The Monday Night Music History Club
A brand NEW series of six monthly virtual tours for autumn & winter 2024/25. Hosted by Adam
Bankside, Brothels & the Bard
taverns, gambling dens, bear baiting, brothels and theatres
Justice Miscarried – Let's Deliver for the Postmasters
"the first duty of society is justice"
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
Geology and Building Stones in the City of London
Award-winning geologist guides "stones ingrained with geological and historical memories"
Covent Garden Pub Walk
‘where is there such another maze of streets, courts, lanes and alleys?’ asked Dickens
A Charles Dickens Christmas Virtual Tour – his life, his work & his London
Weaves an exploration of Victorian London with Dickens's London Life and writing...
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.
The Christmas Tree(s) Walk
London adazzle – its most glorious constellation of Christmas trees...
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.
Grosvenor Canal & Battersea Power Station
Combines the hidden byways of London's most secret canal and the Thames' mightiest cathedral.
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).
Mountain Building & Meteorites – the City a professional geologist sees
Rocks of Ages – Urban Geology in the City (guided by a professional geologist)
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 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"
London Before London – Prehistoric London Virtual Tour
henges, barrows, hill forts, hut circles and genetic evidence
The London Winter Solstice Virtual Tour
we use ancient methods to divine what is in store for us in 2024
19th Century East End – Jews, Anarchists & Workers' Rights
...incendiary publications, industrial strife, revolutionary trade unions, soup kitchens, housing charities and shelters for the homeless.
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"
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
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"
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.
Jane Austen's London – the London of 1809
A Jane Austen tour based on an 1809 guidebook to London
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
Ring in the New Year Virtual Tour
How London has celebrated the New Year over the past 2000 years – and some crystal ball action for 2025
Saints Sinners Sisters
To mark International Women's Day
Virtual Walk: Sherlock Holmes & Conan Doyle at Christmas
An affectionate Yuletide offering from the glory days of the Great Detective and his creator...
The London of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol
An affectionate celebration of the real places behind this timeless classic. A revealing virtual tour of the City Dickens knew so well.
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.
The Arsenal Story
Walk the same streets as Colin Firth in Fever Pitch...
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.
London 1902 - 1916: Seedbed of the Russian Revolution
St. Petersburg on Thames – the cradle of the Russian Revolution. Guided by a fetching young Russian historian.
Monarchs and Maladies
"their excesses, their maladies, their treatment, their cadres of medical attendants, their post-mortems..." Guided by a Physician
The Grand Union Canal – Little Venice & Paddington Green
"a secret corner of London closed to the public for 200 years"
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.
Hampstead New Year's Eve Walk - See the Fireworks from the Roof of London
Watch the Fireworks from the Roof of London. Auld lang syne in auld Hampstead.
The Sherlock Holmes Christmas Walk
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.
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"
Doctors' London – Guided by a Physician
Doctors' London – Pox & Plague, Leeches & Quacks. Guided by a Physician.
Karl Marx in London – Walkers of the World Unite!
Walkers of the World Unite!
The Knifeman Tour - Hunterian Museum
Follow Dr Barry Walsh in footsteps of the famous surgeon Dr John Hunter
Slavery & the City
"No country profited more from slavery and the slave trade..."
Walworth Old & New
Open Studios Day in 'the seriously hip artists' quarter'
Fair Maids, Feminists & Philanthropists
To mark International Women's Day
Docklands
"...the most extraordinary letter in London's alphabet"
Bohemian Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia: central London's best-kept secret
Belgravia Pub Walk
"best medley of lost lanes and hidden passageways in all of London"
"Bond, James Bond" – The London of 007 & Ian Fleming
"Shaken not stirred"