Discovery
London on Foot
Walk through London as lived history: homes, streets, institutions and arguments about who gets to interpret the city.
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Sign inThis is an ordered cultural journey rather than a directory of walking-tour providers. It begins with lived-experience storytelling, moves through domestic and neighbourhood history, then tests those perspectives against heritage and architecture institutions. The route crosses community knowledge, migration, social history, urbanism and design. Complete it over several visits; individual organisations publish their own meeting points and programme dates.
6 venues
Begin with London interpreted by guides with experience of homelessness: lived knowledge before institutional history.
Unseen Tours is a social enterprise whose London walks are created and led by people with experience of homelessness, bringing lived knowledge into the story of the city. It is a…
Move from the street into domestic life, migration and the changing meanings of home.
Museum of the Home explores the idea of home through exhibitions, collections, gardens, design, domestic history, migration stories, textiles, architecture and public programmes fr…
Read one enclosed site through plague, charity, worship and centuries of changing civic use.
The Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery on Charterhouse Square, founded in 1371 on a site used as an emergency burial ground during the Black Death, later a Tudor mansion…
Open the argument outward through public architecture, access to buildings and urban debate.
Open City is the architecture organisation behind Open House London, running talks, walks and public programmes that open the city's buildings and debates about urban life to a wid…
Follow the city through walks and conversations about planning, neighbourhoods and London's future.
Finish at the architectural institution and compare its formal record with the lived perspectives that began the journey.