Shakespeare in the City - A talk

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Although we may think of Shakespeare as “the man from Stratford”, he spent most of his creative life in London, and London left its mark on him. In this talk, Pete Smith will introduce you to what traces of him can still be found in and around the City.

Pete Smith is a Cambridge English graduate with a lifelong interest in London. After a career as a university teacher specialising in nineteenth-century literature, he retrained as a London guide, and is currently a freelance lecturer and tourist guide, with his own small walking-tour company, London City Walks (www.londoncitywalks.co.uk). He is the author of A-Z London Hidden Walks (HarperCollins, 2022).

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Associated Walk: In Shakespeare’s Footsteps – 19th September 2026. Cost of walk £10 bookable independently on

After meeting at 11.00 a.m. by the pond in Guildhall Yard outside the entrance to St Lawrence Jewry church, Pete Smith picks out a route through the core of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, visiting places where Shakespeare lived, worked and spent his leisure time with friends and fellow writers.