Downloadable Tours

The working Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science and one of the largest libraries in the world devoted to the economic and social sciences.

Founded in 1896, it is also known as the British Library of Political and Economic Sciences. Most of our stock is available on open access. Over four million printed items, including 32,000 past and present journal titles, are accommodated on 50 kilometres of shelving.

The Tour:

The audio tour is a relaxed way for new users to get to know the Library's layout and facilities. Even if you have used the Library before, you can refresh your Library knowledge too. It will point out some of the interesting features of this fantastic space.
Begin your tour in the foyer at the service counter. 
 

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a world class centre of teaching and research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. Founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, LSE has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence.

The Tours
LSE's City Tours provide an excellent introduction to London and the sights and sounds of two distinct areas of the city. Each stop on the tour highlights a particular place of interest: blending historical documents, archive footage and up-to-date information to provide a tour of interest for both visitors and residents of London. The tours are provided in MP4 format and can be played on your iPod, phone, computer or multimedia player.

The South Bank
Stopping at Tate Modern, the Globe Theatre, London Bridge, the Tower of London, and St. Paul's Cathedral, this tour explores the sights and sounds centered around London's River Thames.

Theatreland
Beginning at Waterloo Bridge, this tour guides you through the maze of streets that is London's West End, taking you down Drury Lane and Shaftsbury Avenue, past Soho and the British Museum to Russell Square.
To download the maps referenced in these tours, please visit www.lsevacations.co.uk
 

For the first time in France, this exhibition pays tribute to one of this major figure of modern art with an exceptional ensemble of 90 paintings and some 50 watercolours, etchings and drawings. The hallmarks of Emile Noldes art are his extraordinary colour harmonies, uncompromising drawing and narrative verve. He depicted both the theatre of life and the whole of humanity

Tate Liverpool, located in the port city of Liverpool in the north of England, is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. Tate Liverpool opened in 1988 and was created to share the Tate Collection with the North of England. It displays works from the national collection of international modern art and has played a part in the regeneration of Liverpool following its drastic decline as a port in the 1960s. Tate Liverpool is housed in a converted warehouse in the Albert Dock, one of the finest groups of nineteenth-century industrial buildings anywhere.

Turner Prize 2007
The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that always provokes debate and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe. For the first time the prize is to be held outside of London, at Tate Liverpool, as a curtain-raiser for Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.

The tour itself is an Acoustiguide video tour in MP4 format and can be viewed and listened to on your PC, iPod, mobile phone, MP3 player or any other digital media device. 
 

The National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin, houses the national collection of Irish Art and European master paintings. This summer, the National Gallery of Ireland presents an exhibition highlighting the intimate observations of the impressionists and their circle. impressionist Interiors features over 45 wondesrful paintings and drawings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Gauguin, Vuillard and Morisot from both the Gallery's collection and important European and US collections. Aswell as exhibiting key works from the1870s and 1880s (Edgar Degas' "Sulking" and "Portraits in a Cotton Office (New Orleans)", Edouard Manet's "Interior at Arcachon", Mary Cassatt's "Lydia at a Tapestry Frame", Paul Gauguin's "The Little Dreamer", the exhibition shows how artists such as Edouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard carried on the Impressionist legacy of "intimisme' into the twentieth century.

Watch and/or download 6 minutes' film trailer:
 

The crown jewel of the Ottoman Empire

Topkapi Palace was the official and primary Istanbul residence of the Ottoman Sultans from 1465 to 1853, and was considered to be the crown jewel and the heart of the Ottoman Empire. At the height of its existence as a royal residence, it was home to as many as 4,000 people, as well as a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments.

Emperors have left their marks on the palace throughout the centuries, adding new building extensions, enriching the treasury, or equipping the palace with precious handwritten books, porcelein artifacts and similar works of art. On 3 April 1924, by the authority of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, the Topkapi Palace became a museum.

Spread over an area of 700 thousand square meters and surrounded by gardens and wooden lodges in the past, the part of the palace which was turned into a museum now covers an area of 80 thousand square meters. Today, Topkapi Palace is a major tourist attraction. Its Ottoman-architecture buildings, various collections and 1001 different traditions are like windows opening to a glorious past.