Bloomsbury Audio Tour: Writers, Radicals and Collectors

Explore London at your own pace

Walk the squares where London did its thinking, from the national library to the British Museum. Pass the house where Dickens wrote Oliver Twist, the hospital for abandoned children backed by Handel and Hogarth, the lane where Yeats held court, the tower that became Orwell's Ministry of Truth and the statue of Gandhi, who studied law in London.

Photo: Charles Postiaux, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 4.8 km (3.0 miles)
• Stops: 14 landmarks, including British Library, St Pancras New Church, Woburn Walk
• Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration
• Starts at: British Library

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How it works

• Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
• Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
• Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
• Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

• Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
• An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
• Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
• Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
• Lifetime access - your code never expires

Photo: Benjamin Davies, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• British Library
• St Pancras New Church
• Woburn Walk
• Tavistock Square
• Gordon Square
• Senate House, London
• Russell Square
• Foundling Museum
• Charles Dickens Museum
• Lamb's Conduit Street
• Queen Square, London
• Bloomsbury Square
• St George's, Bloomsbury
• British Museum

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

• Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
• Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
• At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
• Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

• This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
• It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
• The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
• You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
• Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Giammarco Boscaro, Charles Postiaux, Benjamin Davies (Unsplash).