Hidden Exeter vs LondonLore

Get a unique perspective on Exeter’s major sites, and discover places off the beaten path. Available in English and German. - Audio-guided tours led by historical characters Explore Exeter through the eyes of a Renaissance guide, who links the places you visit to stories from their own life and times. - Walk through Exeter using a geolocated historical map Navigate the streets of Exeter toggling between a modern map and a superb map from 1587. - Use on location, or off site On site, you trigger stories with GPS as you move through the city – or sit back and let your fingers do the walking by tapping on story points. - Expert insights Our stories have been created by leading historians, who provide extra insights at every point. - Features - Audio tour led by a Renaissance guide - Explore major sites and hidden parts of the city - Switch between an interactive historical and modern-day map - Visit points in any order or follow recommended routes - Get insights from the historians behind the app at every point “Hidden Cities” is the result of a three year (2019-22) collaborative research project “Public Renaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present” funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA). ****** Entdecken Sie Exeter auf eine neue Art und Weise. Verfügbar auf Deutsch und Englisch. - Geführte Audio-Touren durch historische Personen Erleben Sie Exeter durch die Augen eines Stadtbewohners der Epoche Frühe Neuzeit: er führt Sie zu bedeutenden Orten seiner Zeit und erzählt dazugehörige Geschichten. - Spaziergang durch Exeter mit einer geolokalisierten historischen Karte Finden Sie Ihre Wege in der Stadt mithilfe einer aktuellen Stadtkarte und einer Stadtkarte des Jahres 1587. - Nutzung vor Ort und aus der Ferne In Exeter werden die Geschichten mittels GPS-Ortung aktiviert, wenn Sie sich im Stadtraum bewegen. Zugleich ist die Tour auch virtuell erlebbar: online. - Experten-Einblicke Die ausgewählten Geschichten stammen von renommierten Historikern. - Ausstattung - Begeben Sie sich auf eine Audio-Tour mit einer historischen Person. - Entdecken Sie Sehenswürdigkeiten und versteckte Geschichten der Stadt. - Wechseln Sie interaktiv zwischen einer aktuellen und einer historischen Stadtkarte. - Besuchen Sie die ausgewählten Orte nach eigener Präferenz oder in der vorgeschlagenen Reihenfolge. - Erleben Sie an jedem Ort Experten-Einblicke von Historikern. „Hidden Cities“ ist ein Ergebnis eines dreijährigen Verbund-Forschungsprojektes (2019-2022) mit dem Titel „Public Renaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present“. Gefördert wurde das Projekt von „Humanities in the European Research Area“ (HERA).

LOOK UP. THEY WERE HERE. George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf kept house at the very same Fitzroy Square address, missing one another by a polite twenty years. Handel and Jimi Hendrix were Mayfair neighbours, two centuries and a single garden wall between them. One composing Messiah, the other Purple Haze, practically within earshot. Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, T.S. Eliot, Gandhi, Florence Nightingale, Bob Marley and some 800 others all left their fingerprints on the same handful of square miles. Most of us stroll straight past, eyes on our phones, never once looking up. Well. Time to look up. This isn't textbook history. It's an introduction. An encounter. A story that, rather thrillingly, includes YOU. LONDON'S LARGEST OUTDOOR MUSEUM 800+ blue plaques, every one with something to confess. An audio-guided wander between them, except nothing is scripted and no two walks are ever the same. Your guide responds to where you're standing, what you're curious about, and whatever you fancy asking next. WALK YOUR MOOD A pub crawl through Soho. A literary saunter round Bloomsbury. The musicians of Mayfair, the rogues of Westminster, the women who quietly rewrote science. Tell your guide the mood and it builds the route in seconds. COLLECT LEGENDS Every plaque you visit joins your private gallery of greats. Watch your collection grow as you roam: Shaw, Wollstonecraft, Turing, Nightingale, Marley. History you've actually met, rather than the kind you merely revised for an exam. ASK, AND KEEP ASKING The plaque gives you a name and a date. Your guide gives you everything after that. What was Mozart doing in London aged eight, and where on earth were his parents? Why did Agatha Christie keep so many addresses across the city? Each answer opens another door, and you can keep walking through them. This is the conversation a tour group of forty never gets to have: yours alone, going precisely as deep as your curiosity takes it. Ask about Christie and you might learn her second husband was an archaeologist, which she reckoned was the ideal match: the older she got, the more interested in her he became. GOOD FOR THE SOUL (AND THE STEP COUNT) Free to use, and it has the audacity to get you outdoors. Squeeze a walk in between meetings, after dinner, on the amble home. London becomes a city you discover rather than merely navigate. BETTER WITH COMPANY Send a walk to a friend. Plan a date around the great writers of Bloomsbury. Introduce someone to a poet, a scientist, or a thoroughly disreputable politician. WANDER FROM YOUR ARMCHAIR Best enjoyed on London's pavements, but browse the map, plan walks and fall into the stories from anywhere on earth. Ideal for plotting your next visit, your morning commute, or a fond trip down memory lane. WORKS OFFLINE At home, in a hotel, on a plane, or rattling through the Underground, everything's stored on your device, so it's always there. Private, and gratifyingly snappy. BRING YOUR OWN KEY For unlimited walk-planning and AI features, pop your own Anthropic API key into Settings. We never see it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No third-party trackers. Visited plaques live in your own iCloud, syncing quietly between your devices and nobody else's. For tourists. For Londoners who are quite sure they know the place. For history lovers and accidental wanderers, and for anyone who's ever passed a small ceramic disc and wondered, just for a moment, who once lived there. Look up. They were here.