Welcome
Historian, Dr Geoff, DPhil Oxford, leads you on Single or Multi-Day historic tours of England.
All tours begin and conclude in London.
Take a private tour of Salisbury Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, The RAF Museum, Dover Castle, Hever Castle or even Highclere Castle - made famous by Downton Abbey.
multi-day tours
Expert Guides
Unique Boutique Hotels Breakfast and Dinners included
Unique Boutique Hotels Breakfast and Dinners included
Expert guides will lead you throughout your tours.
Tours are limited to a group of twelve so that we keep the personal touch for your needs.
Explore areas of outstanding natural beauty - what England is famous for in your private air conditioned chauffeured coach.
Unique Boutique Hotels Breakfast and Dinners included
Unique Boutique Hotels Breakfast and Dinners included
Unique Boutique Hotels Breakfast and Dinners included
Join us at fabulous boutique hotels throughout England well off the beaten path.
Enjoy full English breakfasts and dining at our hotels (Marquis of Granby Hotel room pictured above) or great local pubs.
Experience! Live England's History
Unique Boutique Hotels Breakfast and Dinners included
History & Old Pubs Can life get any better?
We will bring you to exciting places where you can watch knights in jousting tournaments, watch a trebuchet (catapult) fire a projectile, learn about stone carving from master masons at Salisbury Cathedral, test your own skills in archery and hear the sounds of WW2 Spitfires and P51s overhead. On our tours you live English history!
History & Old Pubs Can life get any better?
Unique Boutique Hotels Breakfast and Dinners included
History & Old Pubs Can life get any better?
We visit some of England's oldest and most famous pubs like, The Eagle in Cambridge, and Nottingham's Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem built in 1189!
Castles & Cathedrals - 2 tours
Medieval Castles
Experience History
Medieval Castles
We offer two Castles and Cathedrals tours, in the South East and in the famous charming Cotswolds. The South East tour heads from London to Kent where we visit the castles at Leeds 'the loveliest castle in the world', Hever (13th c. and home of Anne Boleyn) and Dover (11th c. origin and perhaps the most important castle in England's history.
The Cotswolds tour heads west visiting the castles at Thornbury (Henry VIII stayed here), Berkeley, and Oxford (both from and after 11th c.), and with time permitting we will also visit the Tower of London.
Cathedrals
Experience History
Medieval Castles
On the South Eastern tour we visit the cathedral at Canterbury, the most important church in England and the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is also the site of the brutal murder of St Tomas Becket in 1170. We also visit Westminster Abbey, England's most famous landmark, the burial places of famous Kings and Queens of England and others including Sir Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, and Charles Dickens. On the Cotswolds tour we see the cathedrals at Salisbury, Gloucester, Bath, and Oxford (within the grounds of Christ Church College).
Experience History
Experience History
Experience History
Our tours are not sit back and listen. Are you brave enough to get close up to a bird-of-prey, or walk Salisbury Cathedral's external parapet 75 feet up with its master masons? Or is descending into a medieval dungeon more your thing? On a bespoke tour, why not walk the ramparts of Medieval York then shop in its world famous Shambles followed by a classic English afternoon tea at Betty's. All of these are possible on our Castle and Cathedrals tours.
Great Ambiance
Pubs and Great Dining
Experience History
Our tours are limited to a small group of twelve. We believe that this allows us to really get to know one another on our tour and to share our love of history, great food, hotels and English pubs.
Fabulous Shopping
Pubs and Great Dining
Pubs and Great Dining
We will definitely have many shopping opportunities in all of the locations we visit. Highlights include Canterbury, Bath, and Oxford.
Pubs and Great Dining
Pubs and Great Dining
Pubs and Great Dining
Have a pint where King Richard the Lionheart assembled his court in Nottingham. The first round is on us at
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem
that dates from 1189!
Wars of the roses - AUGUST 15-18, 2025
Richard III
Battlefields
Battlefields
Villain or Noble King?
Did Richard murder the Princes in the Tower? Let us track the Wars of the Roses and maybe find answers to the Great Medieval Whodunnit
Battlefields
Battlefields
Battlefields
We visit the most important Wars of the Roses battlefield and museum at Bosworth Field. Here you can follow a guided walk on the battlefield and explore the weapons and armour used on the fateful day of August 22, 1485. We also visit the Richard III Museum and Visitors' Centre as well as Leicester Cathedral where he is buried.
Castles
Battlefields
Cathedrals, Abbeys and Churches
Our tours take you to some of the most important castles in the Wars of the Roses. We visit Warwick Castle, one of the best preserved castles in England and the home of Neville, Earl of Warwick a great baron in the Wars. We also visit castles at Berkeley, York and time permitting at Nottingham.
Cathedrals, Abbeys and Churches
Cathedrals, Abbeys and Churches
Our tours head to Tewkesbury Abbey which was the site of a battle inside the church! We also proceed to York, the heart of Richard III's powerbase. We visit York's cathedral, as well as the smaller churches where Robert Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick is buried.
Incomparable York
York retains much of its medieval charm. The Shambles is its famous shopping area within yards of the cathedral. There is so much to see in this gem of Yorkshire. We will take a guided tour along the castle walls then stop for a traditional English afternoon tea at the famous Betty's.
Incredible Pubs
The pubs along this tour are exceptional. Starting with Ye Olde Starr Inne built in the early 1600s, The Abbot's Table in Tewkesbury, and The Old Coffee Tavern steps from Warwick Castle.
britain at war 1939-1945 - June 27- 30, 2025
WW2 USAAF Air Base - Duxford
WW2 USAAF Air Base - Duxford
WW2 USAAF Air Base - Duxford
A highlight of the tour is a tour of the USAAF Duxford airbase. This branch of the Imperial War Museum's permanent exhibition contains many classic WW2 planes including the B17G, P51D, P47D, P40F and others. It is not to be missed.
Tanks in Action
WW2 USAAF Air Base - Duxford
WW2 USAAF Air Base - Duxford
No student of WW2 can miss the incredible Bovington Tank Museum and its TankFest Weekend 27-28 June 2025. Its collection is second to none. Its WW2 collection includes, Tiger I, Tiger II, Jagd-Tiger as well as the M4 Sherman, M26 Pershing and Soviet tanks. The museum also has tanks of WW1 and the Cold War.
The Ultra Secret
WW2 USAAF Air Base - Duxford
The Ultra Secret
Breaking Germany's codes, the Ultra Secret, played an enormous role in the victory over Nazi Germany. Alan Turing (played by Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game 2014) was central to this battle. We visit Bletchley Park and see where he and the famous Bletchley girls helped win the war.
Churchill
Blenheim Palace
The Ultra Secret
Winston Churchill held Britain together in its darkest hour. We visit the underground Churchill Cabinet War Rooms in London. See where he conducted the war 'safe' from the bombs and rockets fired in the Blitz.
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace
We also visit one of England's treasures, Blenheim Palace. Built in 1705-22 it was the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough. The 1st Duke was John Churchill the victor of the Battle of Blenheim. His more famous descendant, Winston Churchill was born here in 1874.
D-Day Museum
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace
The greatest amphibious invasion in history left the ports and airfields of England on June 6, 1944. We discover more about the invasion at the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, a major port and embarkation point for the armada heading to Normandy. If time permits, we may also visit HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's 104 gun Ship-of-the-Line flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805.