Here are the walking tours I can guide in London. I am always adding to this list, and would be happy to research a tour for you.

Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury & Camden Town
These areas are closely associated with artists, writers, and London University: Walter Sickert, Charles Dickens, the Bloomsbury Group, George Bernard Shaw, WB Yeats, William Hogarth, the Pre-Raphaelites, Roger Fry & the Omega Workshops, the Slade School of Fine Art, the Euston Road School, the Camden Town Group, the Vorticists. I'll show you one of the strangest sights in London - Jeremy Bentham, who, although he died in 1832, still sits in the entrance to University College today.

Walter Sickert's Camden Town
Discover the area where artist Walter Sickert lived and worked. See the sites of the Music Halls he loved, the studios where he and his friends worked and taught, the scenes that he painted. Hear some of his favourite stories about local murders - Dr Crippen, the Camden Town Murder, and Jack the Ripper.

Blackfriars
Today the names of a bridge, a railway station and a pub recall the Dominican, or 'Blackfriars', friary that stood her until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The area has a rich history that includes royal residences, riverside wharves, the Blackfriars theatre, playwrights William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, lutenist to King James I John Dowland, artists Sir Anthony van Dyck, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal, engineers Sir James Wolfe Barry and Henry Marc Brunel, and the Cubbitt family of builders. The Blackfriars pub is one of London's finest examples of Arts & Crafts architecture.

Garden walks
In the City area we can visit many small hidden gardens - in ruined churches, in World War II bombsites, on top of office buildings - and gardens by leading designers such as Piet Oudolf and Arabella Lennox-Boyd. We can visit the Temple gardens, where Shakespeare tells us the War of the Roses began. In the West End, our walk can take us through parks, garden squares, botanic gardens, roof gardens, and the Museum of Garden History.

St Katharine's Dock & Wapping
Part of the old dock area of London, this walk takes in ruined abbeys, docks & locks, Thames barges & a lightship, old riverside warehouses, the HQ of the River Police, a pub where the artist JMW Turner lived anonymously, the site of the home of Captain Bligh of 'Mutiny on the Bounty', Execution Dock, the pirate Captain Kidd, famous riverside pubs, stories of notorious murders and an old Music Hall.

Covent Garden
This is a walk through one of London's liveliest areas, showing you the Royal Opera House, the Theatre Museum, Drury Lane & famous theatres, the actors' church, the markets, the street entertainers, an area that has been home to aristocrats, artists, actors & writers. I'll tell you about Pygmalion/My Fair Lady, Punch & Judy, Nijinsky & Pavlova, limelight, the Bow Street Runners & the cells of Bow Street Magistrates Court.

Royal & Maritime Greenwich
Greenwich, the birthplace of Henry VIII, is internationally famous as the home of the Meridian Line. This walk will show you where Henry VIII & Queen Elizabeth I were born, the beautiful Queen's House designed by Inigo Jones, the magnificent riverside buildings of the Royal Greenwich Hospital for Seamen, the Cutty Sark tea clipper, the Royal Observatory where the Astronomer Royal used to work, Greenwich Park and the National Maritime Museum. I'll tell you stories about seafarers & adventurers, kings & queens, architects & artists.

Westminster & Whitehall
Seat of government for a thousand years, and site of two royal palaces. On this walk you will hear about the fires that destroyed those palaces, the execution of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, the Suffragettes, Humphrey & Larry the Downing Street cats, the building of the Houses of Parliament, 10 Downing Street, Old Scotland Yard, the Horseguards, Churchill working in the Cabinet War Rooms during the bombing of World War II, the Cenotaph, and the government departments of Whitehall.

Royal Palaces & Parks
This walk can take you all the way from Westminster to Kensington if you are feeling very energetic, but focuses on the area around Buckingham Palace. Lots of Royal stories, as well as a chance to feed the ducks.

Soho & Chinatown
On this walk I'll tell you about artists & sculptors, rock, pop & folk musicians, the film industry, Karl Marx, the cholera epidemic of 1854 & Dr John Snow, the great C19 engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the C18 Scottish surgeon John Hunter, the restaurants & cafes of Soho, and the Chinese in London.

Spitalfields
This walk looks at fine architecture, the artists and entertainers who have lived in this area, the many different immigrant communities that have settled here, the silk-weaving industry, the markets, and Bangla Town.

The Da Vinci Code
This walk visits the locations in London that are important to Dan Brown's story. The Temple, now an area of lawyers' offices, was once home to the Knights Templar, and at its heart is the round Templars' church, where famous knights were buried. Across the road are the Royal Courts of Justice, where Dan Brown defended himself against accusations of plagiarism. On the way to Westminster Abbey, where Isaac Newton's tomb played an important role in the book, we can call into the National Gallery to see work by Leonardo da Vinci.