The Westminster Guides are proud to support London Walking Festival 2025. Go Jauntly, London National Park City and Footways are working together to create a month-long festival in May to celebrate walking (and wheeling)…
A war hero and a victim of prejudice Alan Turing Blue Plaque Alan Mathison Turing was born in 1912 in a nursing home in Maida Vale, west London close to…
The Story of Belgravia Belgravia was indeed a Myth that made Millions. It was a fabricated name to which various attributes of grandeur were given, through sales-speak and word of…
When Westminster Guide Jonathan Grun popped into the National Portrait Gallery to renew an old acquaintance, he discovered that his old friend had disappeared. Now he is looking for a…
From the start a desirable area to live, St James's was close to both the royal palace and Westminster and so handy both for courtiers and politicians. But how did Henry Jermyn get his hands on what had been St James's fields?
Mark Lubienski shines a light onto the secret world of the cryptanalysts whose wartime successes in deciphering Nazi communications inspired the film the Imitation Game
Take a stroll down Buckingham Street with David Mullany to check out the view from Sam's 17th century home office and learn about the street's many other illustrious residents
Dugald Sandeman once worked in an office with a view – one of Horse Guards Parade where, against the backdrop of the elegant and graceful Guard House, the annual ceremony to mark the sovereign’s birthday takes place every June
Women in the UK did not gain universal suffrage until 1928, but the first milestone was reached in 1918, when some women became eligible to vote. On the centenary of this first victory, Parliament Square made way for a statue of a woman to commemorate the many who fought to secure universal suffrage
The Garrick Club, which has been going for almost two centuries, enabled respectable gentlemen to mix with the acting fraternity, not generally considered reputable members of society in Victorian times