One of London’s most famous and infamous neighborhoods The unassuming Dr John Snow is famous for controlling the terrible outbreak of Cholera in Soho in 1854 by having the handle[ … ]

Tour of Medieval medicine starting with the beautiful Apothercaries Hall in Blackfriars. Founded by the doctor who treated Anne of Denmark in 17th Century. Rattus rattus caused the Great Plague of[ … ]

David from London Walks  has a word or two to say about the Pox & Penicillin Guided Tour. All changed. Changed utterly. I’m not talking about how Paddington has changed. I’m talking[ … ]

A tour of Royal London , Buckingham Palace, St James’s Park and Whitehall but with a medical twist Everything from a surfeit of lampreys (Henry 1st) to a headectomy (Charles[ … ]

A History of Medicine walk guided by a Public Health Physician and garnished with a generous sprinkling of Bloomsbury fauna.* It’s a tale and trail of the Foundling Hospital and Pestilential Contagion[ … ]

Ah, yes. This neighbourhood. And its patients. And, yes, its specialists. The Old Master – Betjeman – nailed it. Heavy mahogany doors. Wrought-iron screens. Rich, sympathetic, discreet (the sound they[ … ]

Room 34. It’s in a far flung corner of the British Museum. To come upon it – far from the madding crowd – and work your way through it is to range[ … ]

1800-year-old classical early Buddhist sculptures; Hindu divinities – Shiva Nataraja, for example, doing his cosmic dance; jade items (with their Islamic influences) associated with Shah Jahan (of Taj Mahal fame);[ … ]

20th Century European and American and World Art including Picasso Matisse ,Dali, Rothko There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of[ … ]