London history and walks
From its Bronze Age beginnings to capital status, London has witnessed growth and destruction throughout its long history. Join us for lively classroom discussions and popular walks around the city and discover who and what has left their mark on the city.
Watch City Lit tutor Eleanor Jackson explore some of London's secret spaces:
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Women's London
Course Date: Thu 27 Sep 2018
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteVisiting such diverse areas as Bow, Belgravia, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Westminster and Whitechapel, this series of walking tours gives centre stage to women whose experiences have left their mark on London. First meeting outside Whitechapel tube.Full fee: £99.00Senior fee: £79.00Concession: £44.00 -
Cosmopolitan Notting Hill
Course Date: Sun 30 Sep 2018
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteEveryone associates Notting Hill with the Caribbean carnival but past residents have come from a wide variety of places. We look at the area’s Serbian, Spanish, Portuguese, Moroccan, Indian, Jewish and Caribbean connections.
Meeting place will be outside Notting Hill Gate Station (north exit) by Royal Bank of Scotland.. Meeting place will be outside Notting Hill Gate Station (north exit) by Royal Bank of Scotland.Full fee: £19.00Senior fee: £15.00Concession: £8.00 -
Modernist Hampstead
Course Date: Sun 7 Oct 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s. Passing some more recent examples, this walk will finish at the iconic Isokon flats in Belsize Park.
Walk starts at Hampstead tube (outside high street entrance) and finishes at the Isokon flats near Belsize Park. Walk starts at Hampstead tube (outside high street entrance) and finishes at the Isokon flats near Belsize Park.Full fee: £19.00Senior fee: £15.00Concession: £8.00 -
Dickens' London
Course Date: Sat 24 Nov 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley Street'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Enjoy this introduction to Dickens' work and the London of his time. Morning lecture at City Lit followed by a walk in the area of the city connected to his work.Full fee: £49.00Senior fee: £39.00Concession: £22.00 -
Londinium: a tale of two cities (Roman London AD 47-457)
Course Date: Sat 24 Nov 2018
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetA look at the spectacular rise and fall of Londinium from c. AD 47 to its abandonment in c. AD 457. Includes an introductory lecture, a museum visit and a guided city walk.Full fee: £59.00Senior fee: £47.00Concession: £26.00 -
Transports of delight: London's railway stations
Course Date: Tue 8 Jan 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetLondon's stations see over 1 billion journeys annually, but the buildings themselves are often ignored. Explore a different station and environs each week, discovering the architecture, history, stories and future of these lifelines of London. The course starts with an initial classroom lecture at the City Lit followed by a series of walking tours .Full fee: £159.00Senior fee: £127.00Concession: £70.00 -
The City of London: the Square Mile
Course Date: Wed 9 Jan 2019 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666. Discover how London recovered from one of the great disasters and became a centre of commerce and the heart of a great empire. We follow in the steps of some of its best known characters like Doctor Johnson and Samuel Pepys and some lesser known including William Lilley and Thomas Chatterton. The course follows on from the HLW06 The City of London; the square mile, but new students are welcome.
The first meeting point will be Chancery Lane tube, outside number 150 High Holborn.Full fee: £159.00Senior fee: £127.00Concession: £70.00 -
City of Words: further adventures
Course Date: Thu 10 Jan 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetLondon luxuriates in literary references. We follow the footsteps of the authors, poets and playwrights, and some of
their creations, as we walk a brand new neighbourhood each week, exploring the literary connections. First meeting point (11/1/18) at Green Park tube station, street level, Piccadilly South side.Full fee: £129.00Senior fee: £103.00Concession: £57.00 -
London's quartiers
Course Date: Fri 11 Jan 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThrough one introductory session and seven walks, explore some of London’s quartiers – Soho, Mayfair, Covent Garden, Spitalfields, Clerkenwell, St James and Bloomsbury and understand how their very distinct characters were formed. Entrance fees not included. Initial lecture held at City Lit.Full fee: £139.00Senior fee: £111.00Concession: £61.00 -
History to Hipsters
Course Date: Sat 12 Jan 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDiscover the history and changing fortunes of these areas now considered to be trendy London hotspots. Shoreditch, Dalston, Bermondsey, Peckham, Brixton, Walthamstow, Stoke Newington, Deptford and Hackney all feature. There will be an initial classroom lecture followed by a series of walking tours.Full fee: £169.00Senior fee: £135.00Concession: £74.00 -
Archaeology of London
Course Date: Mon 14 Jan 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore the archaeology and history of London through its cultural monuments, topography and material remains to more fully appreciate the rich archaeological evidence of the capital.Full fee: £199.00Senior fee: £159.00Concession: £88.00 -
London 1919-1939
Course Date: Tue 15 Jan 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore in this interactive lecture course how did the 'Roaring 20s' and the Great Depression impact on London? What was the social and economic experience of Londoners as suburbs grew and modern buildings arrived, along with political and financial uncertainty?Full fee: £169.00Senior fee: £135.00Concession: £74.00 -
Anglo-Saxon and Norman London
Course Date: Thu 17 Jan 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetUsing archaeological and written evidence we will explore the development of Saxon London and the changes wrought by the Norman Conquest.Full fee: £199.00Senior fee: £159.00Concession: £88.00 -
London regeneration: history, politics and architecture
Course Date: Sat 16 Mar 2019
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore the reconstruction of London after WWII, the decline of its infrastructure, population and economy in the 1960s and 1970s and the emergence of a truly global city by the end of the century.Full fee: £99.00Senior fee: £79.00Concession: £50.00 -
Bricks to Brutalism, Metroland to Moderne: London’s housing
Course Date: Thu 21 Mar 2019
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteThrough 4 walks explore an array of London’s residential styles from housing the East End poor and the modernist style of 1930s Hampstead to brutalist blocks of flats by Lubetkin and Lasdun in post-war Bethnal Grreen and suburban Metroland.
FIRST MEETING POINT - OUTSIDE WHITECHAPEL TUBE. FIRST MEETING POINT - OUTSIDE WHITECHAPEL TUBE.Full fee: £79.00Senior fee: £63.00Concession: £35.00