London Historians' Monthly Pub Meet

A London Historians Event

We have an informal gathering of socialising at the beginning of every month. From 6:30 pm. We have up to 30 attendees most months and you can come as early or late as you like, we’re always still there at Last Orders. All welcome, not just LH members.

The pub we use up to and including April 2025 is the excellent Wheatsheaf at 25 Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, W1T 1JB. It’s just five mins walk from Tottenham Court Road Station (Central, Elizabeth, Northern).

We meet on first Tuesday of the month on these dates: Tue 4 February; Tue 4 March; Tue 1 April.

Thereafter we are moving to the Bishop’s Finger in Smithfield on the first Weds of each month as follows. Wed 7 May; Wed 4 June; Wed 2 July; Wed 6 August; Wed 3 September; Wed 1 October; Wed 5 November; Wed 3 December.

Chiswick's Literary Giants

A London Historians Event

Tuesday, April 29 · 11am – 1:15pm
Chiswick Park Station – Turnham Green Station

Join London Historians member Alan Fortune to walk through attractive streets of Chiswick and Bedford Park to visit the former homes of, amongst others, two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a Booker Prize winner, a much lauded author and philosopher, the acclaimed creator of modern dystopian novels, a gifted depictor of London’s seedier side between the wars, and a mysterious Russian anarchist.

More information and to book.

The London Historians Big Quiz 2025

A London Historians Event

Wed 21 May 2025. 18:30 – 21:00
The Sir Christopher Hatton, Leather Lane.



The London Historians annual quiz! If you know your Westminster Abbey from your Westminster Cathedral, this is the night out for you to pit your knowledge against your fellow London history nuts.
  • Challenging but far from impossible.
  • Compiled and presented by London’s #1 quizmaster, Matt Brown.
  • Team Format.
  • Fab Prizes.

More info and to enter, here.

London Historians Events

Here are some recent London Historians events. We held over 30 in 2024 with many more lined up for 2025. Walks, talks, site visits, pub meet-ups. Virtually all our events are for Members only, so the only way to be in with a chance is to join us! You can do so here


Ironmongers’ Hall.


Berry Bros & Rudd, wine merchants


Golders Green Crematorium

Free and Affordable Lectures

Several institutions host wonderful history lectures which are either free or cost very little.
The venerable Gresham College holds free lectures at its HQ in Barnards Inn, Holborn and also at Museum of London. Details.
Guildhall Library has free lunchtime lectures and £5 evening ones, which include a glass of wine. Details