Katherine Alcock - Historian and Tour Guide

01/07/2025

This year we did the solstice at Stonehenge! An amazing, magical experience shared with 25,000 other people, a record attendance.

First we headed to Avesbury and West Kennet Long Barrow, before heading to Stonehenge. We arrived at sundown and slept under the stars before seeing the sunrise, just as people have been doing on this spot for around 5000 years. Magic.

29/05/2025

Salisbury Cathedral in the summer evening light. For 800 years it has graced the Salisbury skyline, far too short a time for such a beauty to have stood among us.

12/01/2025

Had such great fun at on Friday night - creative, funny, silly, the sort of show that restores your faith in live theatre!

Can’t wait to see what they do next!

03/01/2025

It may be cold, but the view never gets old!

03/01/2025

Cold day in London today, -2 centigrade when I left the house, but it’s a price worth paying for the beautiful winter sunlight! This is beautiful building is Westminster Abbey, but swipe for Big Ben and Methodist Central Hall.
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02/04/2021

Good morning everybody and happy Easter weekend!

What are you doing with your Friday? Feel like filling it with a little bit of unusual history? I can guarantee it probably won’t be something that you’ve heard much of before!

Tonight in the UK (7:30pm BST / 2:30pm ET / 11:30am PT) I will be delivering a one-hour, virtual tour on the History of the Humble Toilet!

What a strange topic you might think! But of course when it comes to history, often the most fascinating stories can be found in the most extraordinary places! Join me later today to find out more!

The History of the Humble Toilet; an Adventure in Health and Sanitation

27/06/2020

I film I was featured in, “The World’s Best Film”, made by the wonderful and talented Joshua Belinfante is being shown at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival! I haven’t seen it myself yet, but it features myself and my colleagues Rachel and Amber, and our work running quirky tours of public toilets in London!

Follow the links below to get tickets for this, and other films in the festival, all can be watched from home!

COUCHED 2020: THE WORLD'S BEST FILM

A close brush with his own mortality leads director Joshua Belinfante on a quest to discover what he would do if he was given a second chance. Wondering what the meaning of life and how people choose to live their passions, what emerges from his five years of travel is The World’s Best Film.

A personal documentary about people who are living their fascinations and are the ‘best’ at what they do, The World’s Best Film finds its stories in the off-beat and unique. The best who appear in the film are not necessarily pursuing traditional passions, and the story takes in people who are the best at bumming ci******es and the best at touring public toilets. Each of these individuals offers some insight to Joshua, who moves through these worlds as both participant and observer.

The World’s Best Film is a chronicle of lives and a journey both personal and, perhaps, universal.

Get your tickets today: revcouched.eventive.org

Some of the featured people:
London Loo Tours
Katherine Alcock - Historian and Tour Guide
Horizon Theatre
Ordljud
Kamil Skicki

07/06/2020

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Watch this space!