How to book a London Historians event.
Our events booking system is currently hosted by Humanitix. Some are for members only, others not. To get early news for all of our events please use our Host Page at Humanitix or better still, follow us from there. Note that most of our events become fully-booked. Thanks.
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London Historians' Monthly Pub Meet
A London Historians Event
We meet for an informal social gathering on the first Wednesday of the month. All welcome, not just LH members.
Tables are booked for 6.30pm, but some of us are often there earlier and many members stay until Last Orders.
Find us in the upstairs room at the superb Bishop’s Finger – adjacent to Smithfield Market at 9-10 West Smithfield, London, EC1A 9JR – just5-10 minutes’ walk from Barbican or Farringdon stations.
Wed 4 November; Wed 2 December.
Jewish Museum and Special Exhibition
A London Historians Event
Wed 21st Oct 2026, 1:00 – 2.30pm approx.
Jewish Museum London.
We visit Jewish Museum London at its interim HQ to see this new special exhibition, led by its curator. Followed by Lyons-inspired cream tea!
Special Exhibition: The Story of the Jewish Family who founded J. Lyons and fed Britain.
London Historians Members only. Join London Historians.
History in the Pub: Eight Favourite Londoners
A London Historians Event
Mon 9 Nov, 6:30pm – 9pm.
Sir Christopher Hatton pub, Holborn.
History in the Pub. Learn a bit of history over a pint or glass after work! Eight Londoners is one our our most popular regular events of the year. Eight London Historians present eight favourite Londoners for eight minutes each and not a second longer! This year our subjects are Valerie Lady Meux, Jennifer Paterson, Vesta Victoria, Louisa Aldrich-Blake, Pauline Boty, Michael de Cozar, Maud Brereton and Thomas J Wise. Our speakers are Joanna Moncrieff, Diane Burstein, Chris Everett, Tina Baxter, Peter Dodge, Paul Blake, Laurence Scales, Jane Parker.
Curated by Mike Paterson. Presenting MC for the evening: Matt Brown.
Reds, Revolutionaries & Real Ale.
A London Historians Event
Mon, 23 Nov, 3pm – 5:30pm starting at Angel Station
You’re planning a revolution to take over the world’s biggest country and set up a communist empire stretching across a continent. Where better to sort out the bits and pieces than the lodging houses and pubs of Edwardian Islington? Enter Lenin and his comrades, April 1902, spurred on by how Thomas Paine started writing /The Rights of Man/ in an Angel Islington hostelry.
Ed Glinert, author of /Penguin’s London Compendiu/m and tour guide with New London Walks, raises a glass to stories of radicals, reformers, rebels and even reactionaries on this politically correct tour.
The Regeneration of King’s Cross Railway Lands
A London Historians Event
Tue, 10 Nov 2026, 1pm – 3pm
King’s Cross Station
A two-hour wander through an area which not so long ago was dangerous, derelict, dirty and decidedly dodgy. A gentle walk which will include a fair bit of history plus a decent smattering of light-hearted memories and stories. Our tour leader Chris Foster is a Camden Guide and fifty years ago he was a local Bobby on the Beat.
London Historians Events
Walks, talks, site visits, pub meet-ups
Most of our events are for LH members only, so the only way to be in with a chance is to join us! You can do so here
You can view the current schedule of walks and talks here – be sure to click on the Follow button within the link to receive email alerts as new events are added.
Here are some previous London Historians events:
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
