*ALL INDIVIDUAL GUIDES FEATURED ON THIS PAGE ARE MEMBERS OF LONDON HISTORIANS*
Discovering London
Peter Berthoud is a fully qualified and insured Westminster Guide.
His tours are informative, fun, flexible and inclusive. Peter offers some public walks but the majority of his time is spent writing and delivering personalised tours, for families, companies and educational organisations. All LH members automatically qualify for the maximum discount as a result of being both “Nice & Interesting”! Bookings for all public walks via Eventbrite
Read the latest reviews of Pete’s walks at Trip Advisor.
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Secret London Walks
Diane Burstein is one of London’s best known Blue Badge tour guides with 19 years’ experience of leading tours in the capital’s most vibrant and historically interesting districts.
Aimed at both visitors and Londoners, Diane’s tours explore some of London’s lesser known districts. Visit www.secretlondonwalks.co.uk and click on GROUP BOOKINGS for details of Diane’s wide repertoire of walking tours or email diane@secretlondonwalks.co.uk to obtain details of the latest bookable walks and visits for individuals to join. Prices on application but please mention your London Historians membership when emailing.
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Brian Cookson
Brian Cookson is a Blue Badge Guide and author, an expert specifically on the Thames and its bridges, but much more besides. His books include Crossing the River and London’s Waterside Walks.
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Brian offers London Historians group bookings at £90 instead of the standard £125. Contact Brian directly via his web page, here
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Colin Walks London
Colin Davey is a qualified City of Westminster Guide, City of London Guide and National Trust Guide. Colin has lived in London for over 30 years, and has worked in the West End, mid-town, and the City. Doing guided walks has been a natural extension from all the lecturing and public speaking he has done. He spent many years as a partner in a major law firm, and brings Legal London tours alive in a unique way.
Colin offers a 25% discount for London Historians members, for example £6 for an £8 tour.
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Contact Colin via his blog
Twitter: @colinwalklondon
Colin Del Strother
Colin is a London Blue Badge, Clerkenwell & Islington and City of Westminster guide. He holds the Blue Badge 2012 venues accreditation. Some suggested walks he could offer to LH members include:
- Christian Heritage : From St Paul’s to Charterhouse Sq;
- From the City to Southwark : From the Monument to the New Globe.
- Regent’s Park and the Regent’s Canal
- The Embankment
- The New River in Islington
- Little Venice, Paddington Basin and the canal network
- Pimlico
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Colin offers LH members 25% discount on most walks in groups of minimum four people.
Contact Colin via his website.
“LOST CITY OF LONDON” WALKS
Robert Wynn (Bob) Jones is the author of The Lost City of London, dealing with the history of the City up to the time of the Great Fire of 1666. He also offers a range of guided walking tours on the same theme.
Details can be found on his web-site
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Vania Gay
Vania is a qualified City of Westminster Guide, City of London Guide and Somerset House Guide.
Vania was born in southern Brazil and has lived in London for the past 23 years. She especially enjoys showing London to international visitors but she is constantly striving to design walks that would be of interest to all. Her tours are informative, enjoyable and can be tailored to suit your requirements. These tours can be adapted to suit the first time visitor or the keen London enthusiast and can be tailored for families, companies or organisations.
Her portfolio of walks includes: Paddington and Little Venice; Mayfair – its history and American connections; Westminster Ten Top Ten; Royal Westminster; Stars of Stage and Screen; City of London for First Time Visitors.
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Unreal City Audio
Led by media historian Dr Matthew Green, Unreal City Audio stages immersive, critically acclaimed tours of London. With costumed actors and musicians hidden along the route, they seek to reinvent the traditional guided tour.
The Coffeehouse Tour, a whirlwind tour of London’s original – and best – coffeehouses in the City. Free shots of 17th-century coffee included!
Ghosts of Fleet Street, tracing the rise and fall of the British mass media with gorgeous antique papers.
Dr Johnson’s Ramble, a lantern-lit jaunt through the literary, convivial world of Dr Johnson and his cat Hodge.
These tours have been featured by the Guardian, Telegraph, Londonist, Time Out, and the BBC.
A generous 25% discount for London Historians Members – just pay a tenner in cash on the day.
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Dianne Hally
Dianne Hally is a qualified tour guide for four areas in London: City of London; City of Westminster; Royal Greenwich; Clerkenwell and Islington. She is also a Freeman of the City of London. As a born American, Dianne is very interested in the relationship between American and British cultures, which is the topic of one of her walks American Connections in the City of London. Her other walks include Charles Dickens in the City, St. James, London, Theatreland, Highlights of Greenwich, Highlights of Clerkenwell and Islington, Fleet Street in the City, The Fires of London & Love in the City.
Contact Dianne.
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Laurence's Walks
Laurence Scales is a guide specialising in offbeat historical walking tours focusing on intriguing and amusing tales of discovery, invention and intelligence. Laurence is a volunteer working at the Royal Institution for which he has devised walking tours, and also guides walks and tunnel tours for the London Canal Museum. Surprising life stories, eccentric personalities, startling achievements, and forgotten oddities particularly relating to science, technology and espionage are his passion. Welcoming residents and visitors who want to look beyond the main London attractions he reveals a wealth of lesser known historic sites and offers a double-take on some famous ones.
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www.laurenceswalks.co.uk
Walk the Lines - London Underground, Overground
Join author and journalist Mark Mason on one of his trivia-packed walks which uncover London’s history by following a section of a Tube line … at street level. When a city is as littered with intriguing curiosities as this one, you need a framework to make sense of it all. What better framework than the Underground system? Join me as we take a stroll along a stretch of Tube line, learning about the secrets and oddities we pass along the way.
Each walk takes approximately 90 minutes and costs £8. Unless you’re older than Churchill was when he became Prime Minister (65), or younger than the number of stations on the Victoria Line (16), in which case you’re welcome along for £6. I’m also happy to arrange specially-tailored walks for private individuals or groups – please drop me an email for details.
More info on Mark’s web site: The Importance of Being Trivial.
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Russell Nash
Russell Nash is a City of Westminster guide and LH member.
An entertaining storyteller and professional guide, his tours can be created to suit your needs. Russell’s walks bring the past and it’s characters to life in a warm, engaging and entertaining manner. He specialises on the West End, Mayfair and St James’s; his History of Menswear and Gentlemen’s London walks are particularly well regarded.
LH members do, of course, qualify for concessionary rates.
Russell’s web site.
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London Terror Walk
This unique walk is based around Terrorism in the capital and includes Irish, Syrian, Palestinian and al-Queda attacks. It also includes other events around Kidnap (Princess Anne) and Murder (Lord Lucan). Many of the events are described from the personal knowledge of the guides, who are retired serving police officers who were closely involved in anti-terror duties. One of whom is Gary Powell, whose comprehensive book on London squares has just been published.
The walk is approx 2 miles at a leisurely pace and takes approx 2hrs 15 mins. Starting at Bond Street Tube and finishing near Victoria Tube and Mainline station.
Cost is £8, or £6 to London Historians members.
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Rob Smith
Rob is a member of Clerkenwell & Islington Guiding Association.
“Despite my 20 years in London” he says “I’m always amazed how you can find a new street that’s got an amazing story to tell. The thing I like best about London is how a tiny thing, like a decoration on a building can tell a really big story. When you’re walking your following the footsteps of Londoners from the past, it makes the history come to life much more than just reading about it”
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Richard Watkins
Richard is a native Londoner, and passionate about bringing to life London’s rich and contrary history. Richard is a City of Westminster Guide, a trained and experienced actor and worked for twenty plus years in the civil service in Whitehall. On his walks, he shows the characters and stories behind the buildings, and explores the great social developments and upheavals as well as the eccentric and funny events. Richard is one half of trailsofthecity.co.uk. Check out his walks on the Trails site, or get in touch for tailor-made walks.
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Westminster Walking
Joanna Moncrieff is a Londoner and qualified Westminster Guide. Her tours specialise in food, drink and retail. If you wish to learn about historic shops, the best pubs, restaurants in London, or where to find the most cost-effective cream teas, Look no further. Joanna offers London Historians members 25% discount for both public and private walks.
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Footprints of London
Footprints of London is a group of independent guides who have undertaken some professional course of study, and are recognised by and are members of one or more of the guiding associations that cover London. All Footprints guides have considerable experience of researching, creating and leading walks. By using a qualified guide that is a member of a guiding association you can be assured that you will enjoy your booked walk, and that the guide is covered by third party insurance.
Many Footprints guides are also Members of London Historians.
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LONDON WALKS ®
Multi award-winning London Walks needs no introduction.* Their astonishing range of tours – there are over 500 different London Walks – are fronted by historians, barristers, archaeologists, doctors, criminologists, university lecturers, journalists, art historians, museum curators, actors and the crème de la crème of Blue Badge Guides.
Capital Taxi Tours
Hire a London licensed cab with a driver who is a qualified London guide. If there are four or five of you, this is a very cost-effective and totally flexible way of seeing and learning about London. Full day, half a day, or your own custom itinerary.
London Historians members’ discount: 20% off anything as featured on Capital Taxi Tours web site. Example: Four hour tour of Greenwich: £225 up to five persons. London Historians’ price: £180 = £45 saving! A typical full day tour up to five persons will save you over £75. Book directly through Capital Taxi Tours and quote your London Historians member number.
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