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Baylor Brit Lit Virtual Tours
Pictured above left to right:  Bobby directing traffic, Big Ben (click here to hear it), one of the Queen's Guard at Windsor Castle

 

CLICK AND TRAVEL.  Click on any color-coded word below.

                        There's nothing like seeing things for yourself.  That's what these virtual tours let you do:  Walk through Hampton Court (click here).and smell the bread baking in the Tudor kitchens.     Hop the tube (click here).or (click here).from Victoria to Temple as you are told to "Mind the Gap."  SeeKeats'plum tree(click here).--a grafted pitiful shoot of the original--and sit on the bench at Trafalgar Square(click here).where Oscar Wilde used to snooze.   Listen to Jimmy.  Stand where this former member of the Queen's Horse Guard tells you to stand for the best viewing of Buckingham Palace's Changing of the Guard (click here).
. Then walk the Millenium Bridge to get an Elizabethan groundling view ofThe Globe(click here)before shop like Bridget Jones(click here) atHarrods.  Ride a double-decker(click here).to theBritish Library(click here)to see Lewis Carroll's original sketches of Alice, the writing desk and reading glasses of Jane Austen, not to mention The Magna Carta.  Through it all remember what Samuel Johnson once said about this best of all cities:  "He who is tired of London, is tired of life."  Breathe in the history, the literature, and understand the wonder of your setting from the words Shakespeare put in the mouth of a king:  England, this sceptered isle, this jewel set in a shimmering sea (Richard II ).
 
 Click  and travel.  Make a selection from any of the options listed below for further travel.

Life in England Today
Sightsee on-line in this photographic whirlwind slideshow.  Pick a location and--go!  No passport required.
Literary London and Beyond
Whether  we take you to Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury or Keats' Hampstead, whether the backstreets of Dickens' London or beyond the city limits to Chaucer's Canterbury or Jane Austen's Bath, we know you will leave England the better for having trudged the in the footsteps of major British writers. 
The Bard's England
See Shakespeare's England as he saw it. 
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Links to other U.K. Virtual Tours
Enough said.  If there's a good virtual tour out there in cyberspace and we've found it, we've listed it here. 

 
 
Pictured left to right:  Thames river walk, The (New)Globe(click here) , The British Museum and its famous reading room, Warwick CastleMedieval wax figure