Walking tours and experiences that explore London's history through some of the rogues and rebels who have helped shape this incredible city.
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Guests on our Plant Power Vegan Food Tour have been loving ’s new artisan ciabattas. 😋 It’s definitely one of the healthier stops on the tour, and the addition of ’s stracciatella cheese makes this sandwich next level!
There’s still a few spots left on the tour for both today and tomorrow if you’d like to join us not only for some good eats in Camden, but some pretty funky history as well. 🤘🎸
Booking essential — link in bio. 🌱
We were very sad to read this morning that this will be our friends at ’s last weekend in . They’re a small indie store that’s been there for years, fantastic food, and Rebel Tours have been proud to support them as a regular stop on our Plant Power Vegan Food Tours. ✊🏼 🌱
So today’s food tour at 1.30pm will be our last visit to V Burger — there’s still a couple of hours to book on if you’d like to join us last minute! We love V Burger’s shakes and cannoli — it’s sad to realise that today is the last day our guests will be enjoying these. 😿
If you can’t join us today, our vegan food tour of Camden does run regularly, so you can always join us another date — in either case, do head over to our website (link in bio), as booking is essential!
And if you can, do get down to V Burger this weekend and show them some love. 🫶
The Rebels wish the team at V Burger all the best, and we are going to miss you loads. We’re absolutely gutted. 💔
🇮🇪 St Patrick’s Day 2024 was an amazing success! ☘️ Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate an Irish London - we sold out every slot 🤗
We are so happy and proud that this has become our most popular event of the year, the people we meet on every tour make it such an incredible experience, we love coming together to celebrate London’s rich Irish history 💚
As you can see, the craic in the pub later was tremendous 😅 Don’t miss out next year! Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh! 💚🤍🧡
A big thank you also to the beautiful for coming along and supporting us, we love you!
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As Veganuary draws to a close, we want to help you stay VEG FOR FEB!!! 😋🌱
We’re doing a special offer on our vegan food tour for the entire month of February (and you can get the same deal for what’s left of January, too)!
Save £10 when you book for two via our website (link in bio) — simply select the “2-4 VegFeb” ticket which is a ticket valid for 2 people.
Pictured here, recent guests are enjoying a V’egg Harissa bap from Mildreds Restaurants, pizza from Purezza and Vburger Camden’s incredible shakes! Just some of the awesome food you’ll sample on our tour.
So what are you waiting for? Head over to our website, and join us in Camden for some of the best vegan eats London has to offer!
(Menu may vary, depending on the day. We regret that gluten free cannot be accommodated on this tour.)
Here are some of our guests outside the Bow Street Police Museum, formerly the site of Bow Street Police Station — home to the Bow Street Runners, effectively London’s first police force, founded in the 18th Century.
Here, famous prisoners including the Kray Twins and Oscar Wilde were held — and “unruly” residents of ‘The Kip’ (a famous lodging house in the nearby Seven Dials), were wheeled up here in a barrow by constables.
Learn more on our “Misfits of Covent Garden” walking tour, which takes in both Covent Garden itself and the neighbouring Seven Dials.
There is still space on both tomorrow’s (Sunday’s) tour as well as Monday’s — both running at 3pm, so head over to our website to book your place!
Doing Veganuary?! It’s not too late to book on to tomorrow’s Plant Power Food Tour! 🌱👊🏻
Join us at 1.30pm in Camden to eat your way around some of the most delicious plantbased food, as well as hearing about the history and culture of one of London’s coolest neighbourhoods. 🤘🏻🎸
Pictured are a vegan “bacon” bap from our friends at , as well as twice-cooked “fish” and dim sum from — but these are just some of the tasty eats you’ll try, so do come hungry!
Booking is essential, so do head over to our website and grab your ticket: https://rebeltours.co.uk/plantpowerfoodtour
What the Dickens?! Our lovely group enjoyed travelling with The Ghost of Christmas Past to a Victorian London last week!
We explored the city of Charles Dickens and dug into some of his major themes and characters as we wandered the same streets he did - all through the lens of A Christmas Carol 🎄
Our next tour Saturday will be three days off the 180 year anniversary of this incredibly popular novella, that continues to be told and retold in countless different ways. Get into the true spirit of Christmas and join us at the weekend! Head over to our website to book, link in bio.
By coming along you’ll also be helping a great locally homeless charity- the Whitechapel Mission!
It’s that time of year again! The bells are chiming for the arrival of our favourite Christmas ghosts! 🔔
Join our What the Dickens walking tour this festive season because nothing says Christmas like Charles Dickens, whose many characters and stories are based on the streets of London.
🎩The characters of a Christmas Carol will set the scenes for us as we dive into some of the big themes of Dickens’ whilst we wander around a beautiful Christmassy and Victorian London!
Tickets are £15 and kids go free! Scrooges and humbugs are welcome - visit the link below to book your place! Starting this Friday and running on multiple dates through December 🎄
Join us as we follow the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, to see London as Charles Dickens did!
Liberal Party PM David Lloyd George signed the Anglo Irish Treaty back in 1921 at Downing Street along with representatives of the Irish Republic - Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith.
Today I’ll be chatting about Irish Independence on our London Rogues and Rebels tour, but there’s plenty of other fights and rebellions to discuss as we walk through Westminster this morning!
You’re too late to join me today but you can still book onto our Misfits of Covent Garden tour running today at 3pm, link in bio ❤️👊🏽
Our guests giving off great Autumn vibes 🍁🍂 Including a very cute, tiny person 😍
The nights are getting longer now and what better way to spend them than an atmospheric walk around London’s East End?
We’ll be there this evening to give a different perspective on the Whitechapel murders of 1888 - no suspects, no gory details, no glorifying serial killers! Just real facts about real 👊🏽
Head over to our website to book your spot! Link in bio ❤️✊🏽
We’re so excited to be working with this Saturday where you can join our Secret Lives of Limehouse tour!
Ellie will take you on a walking tour of her neighbourhood in collaboration with one her favourite museums, the Museum of London Docklands ⚓️
Secret Lives will let you hear from the people of Shadwell, Wapping, Ratcliff and Limehouse, once the industrial heart of London’s economy.
As we connect with some of the untold or forgotten stories of the East End Docks, we hope you’ll gain a deeper understanding of this incredible part of London ❤️
For now this is a one off event and we’ll only be running it this Saturday at 11am. There aren’t many places left so if you want to secure a spot head over to the MoL website to book, link in bio ❤️👊🏽
Bank Holiday weekends should be all about the FOOD! 🤤
Here are some of our guests from Mexico enjoying luscious shakes from and dim sum from
There’s still space on our Plant Power food tour tomorrow if you fancy joining us for some of London’s best vegan eats, as well as soaking up the Camden vibe… 😎
Reserving your spot is essential — so head over to our website to grab your ticket, link in bio! 🌱
So who were the Suffragettes? Many people think that they were simply any women campaigning for “Votes for Women”, but it’s rather more complicated than that!
Most women campaigned peacefully, which actually makes them Suffragists. The Suffragettes on the other hand — noting that a hundred years of peaceful campaigning had achieved nothing — were all about direct action.
The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) embodied the motto “Deeds not Words” — and escalated to vandalism, arson, and even bombings to win the vote.
Learn more about them, as well as some of the other rebels who have shaped our history on our “London’s Rogues and Rebels” tour, tomorrow at 11am.
Booking essential — link in bio.
Here are a few of our recent guests standing outside what SOME tour guides and so-called “Ripperologists” claim used to be known locally as the “Prostitutes Church”. But is there any truth to it?
Nowadays a lot of people have come to view Jack the Ripper tours as just “a bit of fun” — and over time some of these tours have become rather gimmicky and more about showmanship, with the content being presented more as an “entertainment”… at times even “funny”.
There is nothing wrong with a curiosity about the events in Whitechapel in 1888, but it becomes problematic when we desensitise ourselves to the horrors of what happened to these women.
And if the women were not all necessarily s*x workers, why have we been told for decades that they were?
Join the discussion by coming along to our “Jack the Ripper: What About the Women” walking tour — every evening at 6.30pm.
We won’t be talking about “Jack”, who he may have been, or go into any detail about how these women were killed… but we will be talking about who these resilient ladies actually were, how they lived, why they have historically been perceived in a certain way — and why that needs to change.
We can’t accept walk-ups, so if you’re interested in joining the conversation, head over to our website and book your ticket — link in bio.
Looking to visit one of London’s coolest neighbourhoods without the usual crowds?
Tomorrow we’re running our “Misfits of Covent Garden” walking tour at the much earlier time of 11am (it usually runs at 3pm) — so if you’re keen to explore this special place at a quieter time of day, here’s your chance!
The Seven Dials may today be a luxury shopping neighbourhood, but did you know that for around 300 years it was the most notorious slum in London?! Here you could find the workhouse that inspired Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”, as well as a lodging house where guests slept not in beds, but hanging over a rope!
Hear these stories and more tomorrow morning on our Covent Garden tour — head over to our website to secure your spot. Link in bio.
The UK is in the midst of another round of union strikes — is your anger directed at the workers, or do you sympathise with them?
Trade Unionism as we know it really began in the 1860s — at the time, employees gathering to demand better conditions and fairer pay was viewed by the government with suspicion, and mostly considered illegal, as was striking.
This changed somewhat in 1871 when Trade Unions were now legal bodies. In spite of this, workers striking in the years that followed were often laid off, or — in the case of several gas workers — even sentenced to 12 months in prison.
Working people have fought very hard for the protections we now have, and it seems that the current government is keen to reverse these protections — just as they have already with our right to protest.
Join our “London’s Rogues and Rebels” walking tour tomorrow at 11am, to hear more about the history of trade unionism and striking, as well as other rebels and radicals who have rocked the establishment to secure more rights for ordinary people.
Booking is essential — link in bio.
It’s shaping up to be a classic British summer… 😅☔️
The weather actually looks fine tomorrow though, so why not join us exploring Camden and eating some of the best plantbased food that London has to offer?! 😋 And if the rain does make an appearance, the great news is that most of the eateries we’re hitting up have a table for us indoors!
Here are some of our guests last week tucking into vegan “KFC” from and milkshakes from
You can get your laughing gear around these (and many other tasty delights!) on our “Plant Power” vegan food tour of Camden, tomorrow at 1.30pm… booking is essential, so to secure your spot, head over to our website — link in bio. 🥟
You might think a tour of Westminster is all about the usual tourist sights, but ours is rather far from that!
Forget Buckingham Palace (as we won’t be going there!) and join us in the backstreets to meet suffragettes, Chartists, trade unionists, and other radicals who have shaped the city!
There are a few spots left on our “London’s Rogues and Rebels” both tomorrow and Monday (11am both days) — head over to our website to secure tour spot!
Our lil punks on our Plant Power tour of Camden Town! 🤘🏽🌿
Camden has long been the home of anything/anyone alternative and that includes an amazing selection of vegan food!
Join us on London’s ONLY food tour as we spend a few hours stuffing our faces with the best plant based food on offer!
This tour is running tomorrow afternoon, make sure you don’t miss out and head over to our website to book, link in bio ❤️👊🏽
🔍Uncover the stories of the women of Whitechapel!
Join on a retelling of this story turned mythology! Forget romanticising a violent murderer, instead we’ll shine a light on the lives of the forgotten women and explore their Whitechapel of 1888.
There’s still time if you’d like to join tonight’s tour, but it’s also running all weekend so head over to our website and book yourself a spot! Link in bio ❤️👊🏽
Fancy living in the Seven Dials neighbourhood? A penthouse in the beautiful Neal’s Yard (pictured) has just gone on sale for £3.5m!💰💰💰
Not so long ago we’d be standing among the sacks of fresh fruit and vegetables of Nicholas Saunders’ pioneering whole foods market when the Seven Dials was still affordable 🍏
And if we go back a little more, to the Victorian era, this was part of the parish of St Giles, one of the poorest and most overcrowded areas in London!
If you join us on our afternoon tour today, you can discover how this happened and meet the Misfits of Covent Garden and the Seven Dials! The tour starts at 3pm opposite Covent Garden station, booking is essentials so head over to our website to get a spot, link in bio ❤️👊🏽
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Pictured behind our lovely guests is the Jewel Tower, one of only two buildings that survive from the medieval Palace of Westminster, after it was ravaged by fire in 1834.
When Charles Barry rebuilt the palace — which is still home to the UK’s Houses of Parliament — the new palace was built right next to the river. It’s often said that the change of location was in hopes of preventing the building from being surrounded by an angry mob.
Protestors have always been a problem for the inhabitants of this building, but the new Policing Act is a bigger obstacle for democracy than the building’s location.
Find out about some of the movements who have marched on Parliament on our “London’s Rogues and Rebels” walking tour — running tomorrow at the special time of 2.30pm (usually only at 11am).
Link in bio! ✊🏼
LAST CHANCE to join our Pride Misfits of Covent Garden walking tour - tomorrow at 3pm! 🌈
Yesterday was the anniversary of Stonewall which sparked a worldwide movement leading to the creation of the Gay Liberation Front and the annual Pride celebrations 🎉
The GLF actually had meetings right underneath Covent Garden market in the old Middle Earth club in the early 70s!
Join us tomorrow to uncover more on incredible q***r history of Covent Garden and it’s amazing characters! 🏳️🌈
Head over to our website to book your place ❤️✊🏽
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This beautiful family on a girl’s trip to London we’re such a joy to host on our Plant Power food tour of Camden Town 🌿🌱
We’ve now added the wonderful to the route - Mildred’s has been around since the 80s providing delicious vegetarian and now plant based food! We sampled their take on the classic BLT and “egg” bap 😋
We also stopped at in sticking to the classics with a chckn tikka masala!
As always, washing everything down with a yummy shake from Banana biscoff still a fan favourite!
But you’ll have to come and see for yourself! Head over to our website to book a place on one of the tours ❤️👊🏽
Another gorgeous day in Covent Garden with these Misfits! 😉
We are very excited to be running our PRIDE edition of this tour which you can join tomorrow! 🏳️🌈
Did you know that underneath the beautiful market building pictured here was a live music venue called the Middle Earth club? You could see bands like Pink Floyd, The Who or the Yardbirds 🤘🏽
After the space closed down in 1968 it was used for a short time by the Gay Liberation Front for their meetings. The GLF is a huge part of the history of our Pride celebrations in London and the UK - come down and hear more about it on one of our tours!
We’ll be running our Pride edition of the Covent Garden tour from tomorrow, with a special focus on the LGBTQ+ history of the area! Head over to our website to book, link in bio ❤️🏳️🌈
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The beautiful and mystical Seven Dials 💫Known for it’s astrology shops and tarot readers, but where did it get its magical name?
How did it become one of the poorest neighbourhoods of the 19th century and why did the Queen of the Netherlands visit here in 1989? 🇳🇱
All these questions answered and MUCH more on our Misfits of Covent Garden walking tour running today at 3pm!
Our Jack the Ripper - What about the Women is also running this evening at 6.30pm from Aldgate station. Head over to our website to book a place! ❤️👊🏽
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A great day for a walking tour?!
Now that the weather is improving, there’s no better time to do one of our ! 😊
It’s not too late to join our “London’s Rogues and Rebels” in Westminster today at 11am — or if you prefer Covent Garden, you can come and “meet the misfits” at 3pm!
We don’t take walk-ups so please do pre-book your ticket on our website — link in bio. 👊🏻
The Women’s into Providence Row - a charity described by a journalist in 1911 as “succeeding where the workhouse and casual wards catastrophically fail”.
What was so terrible about the workhouse? And what’s a casual ward? 🤔
Join us this evening to find out! On our Jack the Ripper - What about the Women walking tour, we’ll explore Victorian attitudes towards the poor and what that means today, what’s changed? What hasn’t?
And as always, we’ll hear from the women at the heart of the Whitechapel Murders - Martha, Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Kate and Mary Jane.
Head over to our website to book a spot, link in bio ❤️👊🏽
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Happy May Day!! 🌞
Did you know that since it was established in 1690, astrologers, tarot readers, psychics, palm readers, apothecaries, and people interested in New Age and the Occult have been drawn to the Seven Dials?
Why not join our “Misfits of Covent Garden” tour on this auspicious day, and find out why! There is still space on today’s tour at 3pm with Cecily.
May 1st is also International Workers’ Day — if you want to hear about workers rights, trade unions, and much more, our “London Rogues and Rebels” tour is running with Charlie tomorrow at 11am.
Booking essential for either tour — link in bio.
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