Choosing a museum day without exhausting yourself
One collection, a manageable visit and current booking information.
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London
Practical guides, city routes and the author’s London research. Choose a subject, then open the complete article.
Travelling with children: fewer stops and more time
Build a day around breaks, access and the whole family's pace.
Checking accessibility for the complete journey
Inspect the route, venue and return plan rather than one symbol.
Booking one of our events
Check the programme, organiser and final conditions before paying.
Checking listings and introductions online
Verify people and arrangements before sharing documents or money.
The London Stone: relic, boundary marker or heart of the city
Cannon Street is built for people who know where they are going. Trains arrive, office doors rotate, delivery bicycles thread between buses, and the stone that carries the city’s name waits…
Burnt Londinium: traces of Boudica’s revolt beneath the City
Imagine a morning in a town less than twenty years old. There are no stone canyons or bank headquarters. Timber frames, woven panels packed with clay, shops, riverside warehouses and…
The London Mithraeum: a secret temple beneath Bloomberg Arcade
The working day is ending above Walbrook. Screens shine, office doors close and commuters cross the City. Downstairs the noise fades. Visitors descend towards the stone plan of a temple;…
The amphitheatre beneath Guildhall: blood and spectacle in Roman London
People cross Guildhall Yard between the Gothic front of the medieval hall and the art gallery. A broad ellipse of dark stone cuts through the pale paving. Most pedestrians treat it as…
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths: life beside the ancient Thames
Lower Thames Street feels like a transport cutting through the City. Traffic passes between offices and the river; Tower Bridge rises to the east; the Roman shoreline is almost impossible…
The London Stone: relic, boundary marker or heart of the city
Cannon Street is built for people who know where they are going. Trains arrive, office doors rotate, delivery bicycles thread between buses, and the stone that carries the city’s name waits…
Old London Bridge: houses, chapel, fire and traitors' heads
Stand on the present London Bridge and look downstream. The lost bridge did not occupy exactly the same line. For more than six hundred years a dense stone structure crossed the river a…