Official Guides to the City of London

Helen Coleman

Languages:

English.

Themes:

Gardens and open spaces, Literary tours, Samuel Pepys, Tours for children, General city tour, River Thames.

Biography

Brought up in Cork, Ireland, but have lived in the UK since 1970.  Spent my working life as a secondary and further education teacher, mostly in London, apart from a 5 year break, when I worked as a bishop's secretary in the Diocese of London.  Special interests include literary London, Samuel Pepys, feminist London and the city’s gardens and graveyards.

Qualifications

Clerkenwell, City of London, Richmond, Driver Guide                                                     Guildhall Art Gallery Guide  

                                 

Guided Tours

Bunhill Fields to St Paul's, South of St Paul's, Dick Whittington Trail, Women in the City, The Barbican, Dickens in the City, Samuel Pepys, Fleet Street

Talks

  Dickens and London

  Women in the City

  Kensal Green Cemetery

  The Bloomsbury Group