Overview

Please Note: This event is for incoming Study Abroad students who are studying at King’s for either a semester or a full year only

London was to Shakespeare and Dickens what Paris was to Balzac. It held them in its thrall, was both their canvas and their inspiration, their workshop and their raw material. They in turn made it their own, imaginatively colonising it. And, like "special correspondents for posterity", bequeathed it to us. Today, despite the ravages of time, riot, bombing, and especially fire, traces of their London – shipwrecks from the past – still abound in the City. Everything from superb half-timbered Elizabethan dwellings to the magnificent early 16th-century gatehouse where Shakespeare went with his plays to the offices of the Elizabethan Master of the Revels. And from London's grandest Tudor manor house to crooked little alleys which fed the fires of Dickens's "hallucinating genius"

REVIEWS 

This walk has attracted a great deal of press coverage. The Times, The Observer, The Guardian have all sung its praises. 

"London Walks puts you into the hands of an expert on the particular area and topic of a tour..." The New York Times

T&Cs:

• Please meet our guide at St Pauls tube station, outside Exit 2, at 2.20pm.
• He’ll be holding up a ‘London Walks’ brochure.
• The tour sets off at 2.30pm sharp and lasts two hours.
• The tour will happen rain or shine (dress appropriately).
• Bring your student ID and email confirmation as proof of purchase. We will have supplied them with a guest list and they'll be holding up a London Walks pamphlet.