Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Enjoy St Patrick’s Day with Islington Guided Walks who are offering a live presentation of the Irish in Islington, past and present. Irish people have lived in the borough for centuries, but the 50s and 60s brought many emigrants – the navvies and nurses generation- who transformed pubs and dancehalls, and even Arsenal teams of the 1960s and 1970s. Navigator Square at Archway commemorates the many Irish who helped rebuild post-war Britain.

The nearby Whittington Hospital still has a substantial contingent of Irish nurses, who settled in North London, often attending St Joseph’s Church on Highgate Hill and dancing at the Gresham Ballroom on Holloway Road. Learn more about Irish life and culture on this live virtual tour.

This walk is presented in partnership with Islington Museum.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

A virtual walk, using Zoom, exploring Bunhill Fields and the area around Old Street

In the course of an hour we’ll visit five different special places –
Old Street Roundabout, Wesley’s Chapel and House, Bunhill Fields,
Quaker Gardens and end at LSO St Luke’s . We’ll talk about John and
Susannah Wesley, see an unusual toilet, see the Lord Mayor’s bodyguards,
discover an inventor whose ideas power the internet, and one of his
colleagues who made today’s life insurance. We also learn more about the
inventor of the London Omnibus, visit a burial ground that is on of the
oldest in London, meet a publican who had an unusual hobby, and talk
about the second best lady of the night in C17th century London.

This walk is presented in partnership with Islington Museum.

Photo is View of graves in Bunhill Fields by Robert Lamb on geograph.co.org, CC BY-SA 2.0

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.

Click here for a sneak preview video!

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history, meeting kings, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout “Freeeedoooommmm!” whilst being executed!)

On our online tour we’ll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London’s site of both animal and human slaughter. We’ll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.

The online tour will last around one and a half hours, and you will be sent a Zoom link beforehand in order to log on.