Our Women's History Walking Tours
We offer a range of Women's History walking tours - read more below!
Throughout our Women’s History walking tours, your experienced and passionate tour guide will share the stories of the Women of London.
Our walking tours cover a wide range of women from different backgrounds, times and who, in different ways, had an impact on Women’s positions in society.
Whether its the campaigners in Westminster, the factory workers of East London, or the writers of Bloomsbury, we have a walking tour that will suit your interests.
All of our tours are about sharing the stories of Women throughout history. Highlighting their struggles and celebrating their successes, everyone is welcome to join our Women’s History walking tours and celebrate with us!
Our outside walking tours typically last 2.5 hours, please note a booking is required. Please see our booking page for availability
We also accept requests for different start times, larger groups and private tours.
You can contact us on [email protected] and we will aim to get back to you within 24 hours.
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Throughout our Women of Westminster tour we will visit a range of memorials to Women located around the City of Westminster. The memorials we visit will be to Women who have contributed to Literature, Nursing, Politics, Campaigners and Women in War Time.
At each location your tour guide will explore the significance of each of the women and their struggles and successes. Whilst also revealing the history of the memorial and the thought behind the design. We hope you will walk away from this Women’s History Walking Tour knowing that among the larger London landmarks there are hidden and often overlooked memorials to important women who changed history.
Our Women Of Westminster walking tour starts at the Agatha Christie memorial on Cranbourn Street (see Map 1 below).
The East End of London experienced through the struggles and achievements of Women!
The East End has been an important area throughout London’s rich history. A place of refuge, change, idealism but also crime and poverty, it is full of stories that draw in locals and tourists alike.
This walking tour aims to change the way the East End is seen, by highlighting the Women involved in the areas vibrant history. We will share the stories and locations important to Britain’s First Feminist; Mary Wollstonecraft, the East London Suffragettes, silk designer Anna Maria Garthwaite, the Match strike of 1888 and much more!
This walking tour starts outside Tower Hill Station next to the Red Tram Refreshment cart (see Map 2 below).
The area of Bloomsbury has, throughout history, been linked to London’s culture, intellects, artists and writers. Today while exploring the picturesque neighbourhood, with its cosy public squares, you can stumble across numerous blue plaques and statues marking where notable women once lived, worked and died.
This walking tour will take you around Bloomsbury, walking in the footsteps of writer Virginia Woolf, World War Two Spy Noor Inayat Khan, abolitionist Mary Prince, Britain’s first female dentist Lilian Lindsay and many more…
Our Women of Bloomsbury walking tour starts at The Cambridge Theatre in Seven Dials (see Map 3 below).
Map 1:
Women Of Westminster: Meet your guide at the Agatha Christie Memorial, Cranbourn Street, next to Leicester Square Station, WC2H 9JZ
Map 2:
Working Women of the East End: Meet your guide at outside Tower Hill Underground Station, next to the red Tower Hill Tram Cart, EC3N 4TH
Map 3:
Women Of Bloomsbury: Meet your guide underneath the Cambridge Theatre (currently showing Matilda) in Seven Dials, WC2H 9HU