London Walks
London Walks is the oldest urban walking tour company on the planet. It’s the gold standard of this profession, this craft. Here you can listen to our guides' stories and anecdotes of London.
Football’s Greatest Gentleman
a local boy who carried his patch of London with him onto the world stage...
She Swore on Stage…and London Gasped
"not bloody likely"
This one’s bananas – London, 1633
“Wot’s that then?” “Some kind o’ foreign cucumber?”
One Head, One Blow, Mind the Front Row
the old rogue’s head doesn’t just go quietly...
700 Years of “Halt! Who Comes There?”
Every night. For something like 700 years.
London’s Most Extraordinary Skinflint
Never cleaned his shoes because cleaning wears them out.
Chaucer Goes to Market – Brixton Market
Brixton Market, London... a concentrate of cultures.
The Day Oscar Wilde Destroyed Himself
he moment he brought that action, Oscar Wilde stepped into a trap.
This Isn’t London. (Except It Is.)
This is London as you’ve never seen it. Didn’t know it could be.
Prime Minister Day
From a prison cell in the Tower…
to a system of government that still shapes Britain today…
Wedding Bells… or Warning Bells
An actress young enough to be his daughter...
April Fools in the Capital of Mischief
...one of the greatest hoaxes in London history
The Man Who Staged His Own Death
Send not to know for whom the bell tolls...
The Londoner Who Gave Us Summer Evenings
...a man on a bicycle looking at a sleeping city.
Run, London, Run
This is where London really comes into its own.
The Most Interesting Man in London
...he is made batman to David Niven
St Albans – Fifteen Minutes… and 2,000 Years Away
You haven’t gone far. But you’ve gone elsewhere.
The Day the City Let Women In
That’s not ancient history. That’s yesterday with better tailoring.
The Impossible Tunnel
"it was the world's first underwater concert hall"
What If Everything You Know About Jack the Ripper Is Wrong?
This is not just another Jack the Ripper book.
“I walked across London…and couldn’t believe it”
"Charlie’s vital green thread through the capital led us instead…along river paths and bridleways…through woodland…past orchards…along the edges of hayfields…through parks and gardens…"
The Secret Life of London’s Greatest Showman
Circus proprietor. Spy. Listening in.
KPG – A Street of Secrets, Wealth & Privilege
This is not domestic scale. This is architectural swagger.
The Day Gravity Died in Westminster
The whole thing – Newton in your pocket.
Andrew Marr Gets Carré-d Away on a London Walk
"how much more emotional and vivid a story is when you are standing in front of it, rather than glancing at a screen"
Laurence Sterne – The Original Literary Rockstar Who Took London by Storm
He writes like someone crossing a room full of mousetraps.
London’s Irish Story
"70 million people around the world can claim Irish heritage"
Aubrey Beardsley – Genius, Scandal, and an Early Grave
The drawings caused a sensation.
Broadcasting House: The BBC Comes of Age
Radio – already powerful – suddenly acquired a cathedral.
The Night London Went Mikado-Mad
A Japanese town run entirely by British civil servants.
Home to London – Alan Cobham’s Epic Flight
aviation was still magical then.
Rule, Britannia! – The London Story Behind the Song
He died while talking about music.
Don’t Panic – Douglas Adams’ London
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy began as a wildly improbable idea brought to life in London. This is the story of Douglas Adams, the BBC, and the birth of one of the funniest creations in modern fiction.
Slasher Mary – The Suffragette Who Attacked the Rokeby Venus
London. The National Gallery. A suffragette. A meat cleaver. And the Rokeby Venus.
The Mini Skirt Takes Over Swinging London – When Hemlines Suddenly Went North
The mini skirt explodes onto the streets of Swinging London in the 1960s. The story begins with French designer André Courrèges, a former civil engineer whose futuristic fashions helped ignite a revolution that London girls turned into a global sensation.
The Blind Beggar Murder – When Ronnie Kray Shot George Cornell
The Blind Beggar shooting was too brazen.
The Man Who Made London Roar – Landseer and the Lions of Trafalgar Square
He didn’t just paint animals. He gave them emotion.
Thirty-eight Seconds of Perfect Guiding
He didn't know it but at that moment Charles Cross insured his immortality within the pages of history books.
The American Who Reinvented Oxford Street
After Selfridge, shopping became a leisure activity.
Oxford Street Without Traffic?
Now if you know Oxford Street you know the soundtrack. Buses roaring. Taxi horns. Engines revving. Delivery vans edging forward inch by inch like nervous chess pieces. It’s noisy, chaotic, gloriously unmistakably London. So imagine this: Oxford Street… without traffic.
