Monthly tours of the City of London’s Guildhall

Once a month, it’s possible to go on a guided tour of the City of London’s ancient and impressive Guildhall building.

Attend the City of London’s ancient Silent Ceremony

Each year, in a ceremony as rich in pomp as it is ancient in history, and in total silence, the new Lord Mayor is sworn into office, and a smallish number of the public are invited to attend.

London’s ancient Cart Marking ceremony takes place next month

Date for your diary, as over 40 historic and interesting road vehicles will roll into Guildhall Yard next month to take part in an ancient ceremony.

Tickets Alert: City of London beer festival

Tickets have gone on sale for the annual Beerfest, which takes place next month in the City of London's Guildhall Yard.

Three large scale models of London to enjoy

Three large scale models of London that have usually been in three different buildings can currently be seen together in one room.

England’s oldest hospital gets a central London exhibition

To mark its 900th anniversary, an exhibition about Barts Hospital has opened that tells the history of the organisation, from its early religious foundation to a charity and now a major NHS hospital.

Exclusive photos: See inside the City of London’s Aldermen’s Court Room

Many a visitor to the Guildhall Yard in the City of London will have noticed an odd looking building poking into the yard and wondered what is inside it.

Monthly tours of the City of London’s Guildhall

Once a month, it's possible to go on a guided tour of the City of London's ancient and impressive Guildhall building.

Cart Marking ceremony returns to London next month

Next month, over 40 historic and interesting road vehicles will roll into Guildhall Yard to take part in an ancient ceremony.

Becket Pageant for London coming to the Guildhall

To mark Thomas Becket's triple anniversary, Guildhall in the City of London is to be filled with a 16th-century style Livery Fair, and a brand new open-air musical production of his life.

Artificial Northern Lights to fill the skies over the City of London

A free display of an artificial 'Borealis' northern lights display will fill the night sky over the City of London's Guildhall next month with tickets being released today.

Watch the Cart Marking ceremony this Saturday

This Saturday, over 40 historic and interesting road vehicles will roll into Guildhall Yard to take part in an ancient ceremony.

The St Lawrence Jewry memorial drinking fountain

A grand Victorian drinking fountain sits next to St Paul's Cathedral, but it wasn't there originally and only ended up there due to WW2.

Three historic documents go on show

Underneath the Guildhall art gallery is a small space that currently has three historic documents on display.

London’s Grand Designs: Building a Capital City 1675 to 1986

For a few weeks there's a display of some of the grand building projects that defined London as a city. From ancient to very modern, lost and still standing.

Visit Guildhall – London’s oldest non-ecclesiastical stone building

Surprisingly few people know this, but it's possible to visit the City of London's magnificent Guildhall building, the oldest non-ecclesiastical stone building in the City.

Help build and destroy a cardboard tower in the City

Fancy spending a day helping to build a tower out of cardboard, only to then tear it down the next day?

Vivid landscape photos of WW1 battlefields

The final in a series of a photo exhibitions about the fields of WW1 battles is currently on display in the City of London Guildhall yard.

See some military aircraft in Guildhall Yard this weekend

This weekend there's a chance to get very close and personal with a number of military aircraft, right in the heart of the City of London.

The Lord Mayor’s Annual Gresham Lecture

A few years ago a new tradition was born, and the details of this year's now-annual Lord Mayor's Gresham Lecture have been announced.

See one of the City of London’s oldest democratic documents

Underneath the Guildhall in a corner that's easy to overlook is a small heritage gallery with a regularly changing display. Three glass cases, and currently three different displays.

Roman revels to celebrate opening of the Mithraeum Museum

To celebrate the opening of the new Mithraeum Museum in the City of London, a range of Roman themed events is taking place throughout the late summer months.

Gladiators return to London’s Roman amphitheatre

Later this summer, sweat and blood, groans and cheers, broken bones and damaged egos will return to the roman amphitheater in the City of London.

See the Doughboys in the City of London

A large scale exhibition is currently on at the Guildhall in the City of London remembering the battlefields of WW1 in France, and the contribution made by the "doughboys" to the European war.