Exploring the Unseen Side of London and the Global Face of Homelessness
Author: Rah X, Guide at Unseen Tours At Unseen Tours, we’re not just showing people around London — we’re telling stories that don’t often get heard. I’m Rah, one of six tour guides with lived experience of homelessness. Together, we lead walking tours across London’s hidden corners, giving visitors an authentic perspective on our city — through […]
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Unseen Tours Launches New Walking Tour: Lambeth – Westminster with Anne, Marking World Homeless Day
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE London, UK – 10 October 2024 – To mark World Homeless Day, Unseen Tours is proud to announce the launch of a new walking tour from Lambeth to Westminster, co-curated and led by our newest tour guide Anne. This new tour is the latest in Unseen Tours’ mission to provide fresh perspectives […]
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Journey Through Verse: Poetry and Memories with London Bridge Tour Guide David
20 March 2024
David, London Bridge tour guide
This is a poem that I wrote in 2000, titled “If It’s Meant to Be, It Will Be”. I recited it at a Crossbones Graveyard vigil, and tend to mention it while being outside of the graveyard on my tour. If it’s meant to be it will be. I used to know a wise lady […]
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Exploring the Poetry of London’s Streets: A Journey with Ben from King’s Cross to Clerkenwell
12 March 2024
Ben, King's Cross tour guide
There is a certain poetry to be found in walking city streets… I take visitors to London on a walking tour that starts at St. Pancras International train station, with Unseen Tours: we focus on the many layers of this complex city, the juxtaposition of old and new, and surely London’s greatest speciality, the comings-together of unlikely subjects […]
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From Cloud Gazing to Tour Guiding: Pete’s Evolution as a Public Speaker
26 January 2024
Pete, Brick Lane tour guide
Yes, I’m a public speaker, I speak in public, to the public on my tour. I’m used to speaking in public, although I don’t really know if I’m any good at it, because of previous experience. In adulthood this started when I was at the University of Sussex, and of course, public speaking to the […]
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Transforming Prejudice Into Empathy: A Master’s Thesis on London’s Unseen Tours
19 January 2024
Guest Blog
Hi, I am Irina a 24-year-old marketing student with a focus on tourism at the IMC University of Applied Sciences in Austria. The first time I heard about Unseen Tours was in our university course “Global Tourism Perspectives”, where our professor Dr. Claudia Dolezal talked about social entrepreneurship and her collaborations with Unseen Tours. My […]
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Pete: What life taught me whilst being homeless…
11 December 2023
Pete, Brick Lane tour guide
Having been a tour guide with Unseen Tours for 8 years, I get asked a lot of questions by my tourists. Through the years I’ve been asked a lot of questions, but a while ago I was asked a question that did fluster me, because it was from so unexpected that I’d never even considered such a question. The question I was asked […]
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