Welcome to New London Walks…
Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s London Compendium, cruise ships speaker, and the most prolific tour guide in Britain with some 600 tours a year, has devised a remarkable set of expert, entertaining walking tours, Zoom talks and coach panoramics, covering every aspect of history and culture in London, the world’s capital.
We will provide you with the most interesting and engaging guides: Blue Badge, Green Badge and no badge for anything you want to do and experience in London. The key tourist sights in Westminster and Whitehall include:
Jack the Ripper; Karl Marx in Soho; The Pankhursts’ Suffragette City; Beatles sights and sites; Chilling Tales from the Graveyards; Jewish East End; Sherlock Holmes; Charles Dickens; Brick Lane: London’s Most Exciting Street
These tours have been devised by Ed Glinert, England’s most prolific tour guide and London’s most energetic historian, author of Penguin’s London Compendium (one of the 21st century’s most important London books), East End Chronicles, West End Chronicles and The Literary Guide to London.
Christmas 2024
London Christmas Day Walk
Join us in London on Christmas Day for an exciting, entertaining, enlightening guided tour led by London’s leading historian, Ed Glinert. Author of Penguin’s lauded London Compendium, East End Chronicles and West End Chronicles, the capital’s most prolific tour guide, leads this saunter through the West End and Westminster as we meander through the mysterious mews of Mayfair, stylish St James’s and sleazy Soho.
Charles Dickens’ London
No author has explored and explained the capital in such depths, with such warmth, humour and empathy.
Free Boxing Day Tour in London – Dickens called London his “magic lantern”.
Ed Glinert, a Penguin Classics editor and London’s most prolific tour guide, leads this Boxing Day tour of Charles Dickens’ old City of London, with accounts and locations from Bleak House, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and more.
London in a Day
Big Ben, the Tower, Buck House, St Paul’s, the Eye, Westminster Abbey, the gates of No. 10, Covent Garden, the building where they chopped off Charles’ I’s head – all those landmark London locations you wanted to see in one day. Can it be done? Yes! and no waiting around on stuffy coaches in a never-ending traffic jam. We will take you. We can’t guarantee meeting Boris though.
Music Tours
No one can match our range of music tours. We don’t just do “The Beatles’ London”. We have invented “The Rolling Stones’s London” and cam offer similar for David Bowie and Pink Floyd, plus the unique “London in 12 Songs” – and all accompanied with the sounds you know so well.
* Tours devised by Ed Glinert, former production editor of Mojo.
Pub Tours
No matter whether you live in London or Los Angeles, Acton or Aachen, Camden Town or Camden New Jersey, you can never tire, as Dr Johnson wanted to say, of an hour in Charles Dickens’s favourite, the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. Or there’s the chance to sup with the great actor Ian McKellen himself in his own Limehouse pub. But we don’t just drink. We tell the history en route, shaped from decades of immaculate research, as we sojourn from inn to inn.
Jack The Ripper
This is more than a shock horror tale of murdered prostitutes. As we trawl the mean streets of the East End, this becomes a journey into one of the greatest cover-ups and conspiracies in British history. This is a rare Jack the Ripper tour that features all five murders, looks into why and how the local Jewish population were framed, and uniquely takes you to the obscure East End location where it all went wrong for the British establishment.
* Tour devised by Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s East End Chronicles.
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Charles Dickens’s London
Dickens is London. Come with us to the Old Curiosity Shop, Nancy’s Steps, Fagin’s Den, Newgate Prison, the Blacking Factory and Lincoln’s Inn, where the Lord High Chancellor sits in the “very heart of the fog”.
* Tour devised by Ed Glinert, author of Penguins Literary Guide to London.