England: British Library

11/01/15 • 29 min

Rick Steves Britain & Ireland Audio Tours

For the latest version of this audio tour, download the (free!) Rick Steves' Audio EuropeTM App — available for Apple and Android. Learn more at https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/audio-europe The British Empire built its greatest monuments out of...paper. In this hour-long tour, we'll concentrate on a handful of documents — literary, historical, and musical — that changed the course of history.

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England: British Museum

For the latest version of this audio tour, download the (free!) Rick Steves' Audio EuropeTM App — available for Apple and Android. Learn more at https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/audio-europe In this 90-minute tour, we focus only on the very best of the British Museum, including Egypt (3000 BC–AD 1); Assyria (900–600 BC) and Greece (600 BC–AD 1).

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England: St. Paul's Cathedral

For the latest version of this audio tour, download the (free!) Rick Steves' Audio EuropeTM App — available for Apple and Android. Learn more at https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/audio-europe In this one-hour tour of St. Paul's Cathedral (two if you climb the dome), military buffs will find memorials to many great wars and their war heroes and dome-climbers will be rewarded with expansive views over London's skyline.