
Lepers and Leeches: Medical Bloomsbury and St Giles
1 hour 45 minutes
£15
Like a ward in a hospital. Dr. Barry’s making the rounds. Heroically. Not least because this is St. Giles (and Bloomsbury). St. Giles was the patron saint of lepers and cancer patients and disabled people and epileptics and the mentally ill and the sterile. To say nothing[…]
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Living and Dying Gallery, British Museum
1 hour 45 minutes
£15
Different world cultures approachs to health & medicine. 20th Century European approaches to health compared with Oceanic, North American, African, and South East Asian approached to wellbeing There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part[…]
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British Art, Tate Britain
1 hour 45 minutes
£15
British painting from 16-19 th Century Hilliard to Landscapes of Turner Constable. “20th Century art of Sickert to Hockney. Young British artists 21st Century There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can[…]
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Power and Passion: Masterpieces of the National Gallery
1 hour 45 minutes
£15
The National Gallery has one of the world’s greatest collection of Old Masters on themes of Power and Passion including Van Dyck, Ruben’s, and Rembrandt, Constable and Turner. Stubb’s famous ‘Whistlejacket’ dominates the Gallery. The French Impresssionists include Van Gogh’s
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Indian Art, British Museum
1 hour 45 minutes
£15
A detailed description coming soon There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
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Civilisation and Culture, British Museum
1 HOUR 45 MINUTES
£15
Partheneon Gallery Greek vase painting Roman portraits There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the[…]
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Japanese Art, British Museum
1 hour 45 minutes
£15
Land of the Rising Sun. Behold the early Dogu ceramics (that influenced a famous David Bowie costume, let alone Manga comic stories). And those cruel yet elegant Samurai swords and unique armour (looking at them is to have Shogun rear up in front of you,[…]
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Anglo Saxon Art Sutton Hoo, British Museum
1 Hour 45 minutes
£15
Stunning 7th Century buried treasures possibly of the Anglo Saxon KIng Redwald from the Dark Ages . Gold buckle, garnets from Sri Lanka Discovered weeks before outset of WWII. Amazing story of a buried ship in Suffolk. Glittering helmet. Cate Blanchett due to film as[…]
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Knife Man Tour: In the footsteps of John Hunter
1 HOUR 45 MINUTES
£15
Follow Dr Barry Walsh in footsteps of the famous surgeon Dr John Hunter through the streets of the West End, Covent Garden and end in the remarkable Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The infatuation of a doctors wife for the sculptor of Eros begins[…]
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