London Guided Walks & Tours
Led By Qualified London Blue Badge Tour Guides & Expert Tutors
From its Bronze Age beginnings to capital status, London has witnessed growth and destruction throughout its long history. Join us for lively classroom and online discussions as well as our popular guided historical walks around London and discover who and what has left their mark on the city.
Get a flavour of our walking tours with qualified London Blue Badge Tour Guides and City Lit tutor Diane Burstein, who explores some of the best spots around our campus in Covent Garden.
79 courses available
- Celebrating Women in History: Walking in the Realm of Queens
Discover buildings, places and monuments associated with queens and queen consorts from the Medieval Eleanor of Castile to Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Camilla.
Off Site
Mon 8 Mar 2027Marilyn GreeneFull fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00 - London History Lectures: The Gin Craze
"Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence..." Join Vanessa King to discover the impact of gin consumption on Hogarth’s London.
Online
Fri 19 Mar 2027Vanessa KingFull fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - Aldgate: Gateway to the East
Explore Roman origins, medieval tales, and vibrant immigrant stories, linking the City to the bustling streets of Spitalfields and Whitechapel..Meeting point: outside Aldgate Underground Station.
Off Site
Sun 21 Mar 2027Vanessa KingFull fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00 - London History: 2000 Years in One Hundred Buildings
Explore the social, political, commercial and economic changes that took place in London via 100 buildings, from 43AD to the present day, on this course of 10 walks.
Full fee £289.00 Senior fee £231.00 Concession £188.00 - London History Lectures: Bitter Brews and Big Ideas: Coffee House Culture
From poets, diarists and scientist to politicians and secret radicals, London's coffee houses became places to gossip, conspire and trade. Join Vanessa King to explore the Bitter Brews and Big ideas emerging from coffee house culture in late seventeenth-century London.
Online
Fri 23 Apr 2027Vanessa KingFull fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00 - A walk through Conservation FinchleyFinchley Central contains three conservation areas. Starting at the oldest part of the former village of Finchley Church End , this walk stops to admire traces of the old village, Edwardian and Victorian architecture before moving on to the delightful Finchley Garden village and College Farm, the last remaining farm in Finchley.
Meeting points: Start by the bike rack Station Road Exit of Finchley Central tube station, end Henley's Corner on the junction of Regent's Park Road by La Deliverance statue.Off Site
Mon 26 Apr 2027Marilyn GreeneFull fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00 
From the 1880s to the 1930s: how the new East End was bornIn an area branded 'the hell of poverty', libraries, theatres, art galleries and social housing were established. Workers went on strike and activists campaigned for better lives. Discover this history by taking actual, guided walks through six tumultuous decades of change. The first session is in the classroom at Keeley Street but all other sessions are guided walks. Full details of the meeting places for each walk will be given at the 1st session.
Keeley Street
Tue 27 Apr 2027David RosenbergFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00- Village London
London is made up of a series of villages, each with its own individual characteristics. Explore Spitalfields,Shoreditch, Finsbury, Clerkenwell, Islington, Soho, Fitzrovia and Mayfair on these 8 guided walks.
Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - Spectacular Vernacular - London’s Domestic Architecture
Home is where the heart is, but we tend to ignore their architectural worth.This course looks at London’s vast variety of domestic architecture, from old to new, from the grand to the humble
Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Thu 29 Apr 2027Eleanor JacksonFull fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £97.00 - The old Jewish East EndToday the London Jewish community is associated with areas to the North West and North East of London but this tour explores the area where Jewish people settled from 1656 onwards. Take a guided walk through the streets of the East End to reveal old synagogue buildings, a soup kitchen , markets, shops, businesses and homes associated with London’s Jewish community. We’ll hear about some of the personalities associated with the area from philanthropists to performers.
Meets outside Liverpool Street Station , Liverpool Street Exit outside the upper concourse of the stationby the Kindertransport Memorial next to McDonalds.Off Site
Mon 3 May 2027Diane BursteinFull fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00 - Unreal city: history of London through literature from 1800 to todayFiction writers are often the first to identify and analyse a social phenomenon. We will examine two centuries of London history through the eyes of novelists and poets, from William Blake to Zadie Smith.
Online
Tue 4 May 2027Sarah WiseFull fee £189.00 Senior fee £189.00 Concession £123.00 - Discovering Victorian London: empire, enterprise and education
Victorian London shaped today's city. Discover the lasting legacy of the Victorian age, uncover its secrets, and meet some of the characters who created one of the world's greatest cities. Initial lecture via zoom followed by 7 guided walks. NB: Break week 26/5/26
Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tue 4 May 2027Eleanor JacksonFull fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - London 1760 -1815
As the capital of a global superpower, how were the lives of Londoners affected by political, economic and social
revolution, and protracted warfare in a period spanning the American Revolution and the defeat of Napoleon?
Keeley Street
Tue 4 May 2027Mike BerlinFull fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - Sweet Thames, run softly: a cultural explorationThe Thames runs like a silver thread through London’s history. It has been a muse & inspiration for centuries. This course examines its impact on our city, how it’s enriched & influenced our lives, both upstream & down.
Online
Wed 5 May 2027Eleanor JacksonFull fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Arts and Crafts of Hampstead Garden Suburb
The walk traces the early history and developments of Hampstead Garden Suburb and includes the Heath Extension, Central Square, designed by Edwin Lutyens, and the original Artisans quarter designed from 1907 by Parker and Unwin.
Off Site
Mon 10 May 2027Marilyn GreeneFull fee £39.00 Senior fee £31.00 Concession £25.00
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