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Dare you walk the dark and narrow closes and wynds of Old Edinburgh? Do you have what it takes to be a bodysnatcher? This site offers more than a traditional 'virtual tour'!
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Contact us about our range of Interactive Guided Tours
Contact us regarding our range of Interactive Guided Tours.
If you want to know how to operate your new Interactive Guided Tour, see this page!
We very much doubt that you'll have any problems running our Interactive Guided Tours, but if you do, this page offers some solutions.
We plan on upgrading our website on a regular basis. More free things and more tours! If you are a regular user, click here to see what's changed!
Find out what a virtual tour of the Titanic has to do with the Actual Education range of Interactive Guided Tours!
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Our Interactive Guided Tours are advanced virtual tours. If you love exploring historic places (and we certainly do) then you'll really enjoy your virtual walking tours around historic Edinburgh, York, Chester and more.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that our tours are like the usual internet virtual tours you may have seen. They do an awful lot more than that!
Try a scene from our York guided tour
Try a scene from one of our York guided tours.
Free Stuff
We aim to have a website that isn't just some shopfront. We love the history of the locations we cover and we want to be a useful resource to other people out there witth the same interests. Here are a few of the free resources we hope to provide more off throughout the years.
Current Podcast - Walking tour resources
Actual Education produce a regular history podcast which often has resources to allow you to take your own guided walking tour around some fascinating places.
Exhibition - Tour Edinburgh of Old
View our range of free online exhibiitons. The evocative images help you tour Edinburgh as it once looked.
Get this FREE history of Edinburgh guidebook
Visit one of Scotland's most historic places with this huge ebook. Sit back and let this free Edinburgh guidebook take you around some of the most interesting locations in Old Town. The Royal Mile and the closes and wynds which come off it are covered in detail. Copiously illustrated, we're sure you'll love this useful Edinburgh guidebook.
We've produced a selection of videos which showcase our collection of archive images as well as some of our snapshots in and around York and Edinburgh.
Why not send an eCard to a friend? Many of our eCards feature famous views from around York, Edinburgh and Chester.
Jigsaws
Why not relax with one of our online Old Edinburgh jigsaws? They are simple to use and absolutely free!
Why not relax with one of our online York jigsaws? They are simple to use and absolutely free!
Galleries
Gallery - Old Images of Edinburgh
These old Edinburgh images come from James Drummond's "Old Edinburgh" book.
Gallery - Old Postcards of Edinburgh
We've built up a growing collection of old images of Edinburgh. Here are some for you to enjoy.
Resources - Edinburgh's history and much more!
Explore some links which might be of interest if you plan on visiting Edinburgh, York or Chester.
We hope to bring a variety of stories to the website. Please feel free to comment on our blog.
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Join our Interactive Guided Tours community
Actual Education welcomes you to our history community. Membership is free and open to all. Members receive free shipping on our Interactive Guided Tours software. Members also receive our e-newsletters and get access to our podcasts, archives and exhibitions.
Get the latest on our Interactive Guided Tours
Join our online community now to get the latest on our ever expanding range of Interactive Guided Tours.
Explore some old Edinburgh photographs with our free jigsaws. These can be played on your computer.
Explore some old Chester photographs with our free jigsaws. These can be played on your computer.
Explore some old York photographs with our free jigsaws. These can be played on your computer.
Free Edinburgh Guided Tours...and more!
Our members will get access to our collection of free Edinburgh Guided Tours...and also other software ones from a variety of different historic locations! It's free so why not sign up now?
Our history themed podcasts explore a variety of Old Edinburgh themes. Our first series looks at the story of Burke and Hare and the bodysnatchers.
We've built up a large archive of old images of Edinburgh, York and Chester. This page will let you explore some of our older galleries.
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Edinburgh Previews
Edinburgh's History - An Interactive Guided Tour Around Arthur's Seat
Visit one of Edinburgh's most iconic places in this unique Interactive Guided Tour. Sit back and let this tour guide you around Salisbury Crags, Arthur's Seat and Hunter's Bog valley.
Edinburgh's History - Bonnie Prince Charlie's Edinburgh - The Interactive Guided Tour
Walk in the footsteps of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, the famous 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' and his Jacobites in this unique Interactive Guided Tour. Experience four guided tours around Edinburgh locations which played a role in the famous '45 Jacobite Rebellion
Robert Burns, Scotland's iconic 'Ploughman Poet' stayed in Edinburgh's historic Old Town on more than one occasion. This unique virtual tour software will take you on three guided tours of Edinburgh, revealing the places which were associated with Burns.
Edinburgh's History - Mary Queen of Scots Interactive Guided Tour
Mary Queen of Scots, one of the most famous characters in Scottish history is the focus of our latest Interactive Guided Tour. This unique virtual tour software will take you on four guided tours of Edinburgh, revealing the places which were associated with Scotland's most tragic monarch.
The Old Town Graveyards - Interactive Guided Tour of Edinburgh
Let us take you on one of the more macabre tours of Edinburgh. In this unique virtual tour we take you around Canongate, St Cuthbert's and Greyfriars Kirkyards as well as Old Calton and New Calton burial grounds. We can't bring Old Edinburgh's people back to life...but we can introduce you to their stories!
Debt, Poverty and Relief - Tour Edinburgh's worst Victorian slum areas.
Dare you walk with us around the sites of Old Edinburgh's seediest and most dangerous streets? Victorian eyewitness accounts will illuminate the most poverty stricken closes and wynds.
John Kay's Royal Mile - A Virtual Tour
Discover how intellect and eccecntricity lived hand in hand in this unique Interactive Guided Tour. Enlightenment Edinburgh was full of learned gentlemen...but it also was home to some fascinatingly eccentric characters. Take a virtual tour down Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile in the company of eighteenth and nineteenth century with John Kay as we discover the stories behind his famous caricatures. Explore some of the history of Edinburgh with one of its most inspiring characters!
The Water of Leith Interactive Guided Tour - a virtual visit to Edinburgh's forgotten river
Take a walk down Edinburgh's delightful Water of Leith river in this unique Interactive Guided Tour. Your virtual tour follows the Water of Leith walkway and cycleway from Balerno, near the source of the river, all the way down to the port of Leith, where it meets the North Sea.
Deacon Brodie's Edinburgh - An Interactive Guided Tour
Get to know the Edinburgh Deacon Brodie would have known with this fascinating and unique Interactive Guided Tour around the places which played a part in the life of the dastardly Deacon.
Robert Louis Stevenson's Picturesque Notes
Revisit the work of Robert Louis Stevenson with this exciting illustrated version of his famous 'Picturesque Notes'. Stevenson was an Edinburgh boy and the historic Old Town and New Towns are explored in this virtual tour version of this classic work.
York Previews
York's History - The City Walls Tour
Take a fascinating virtual walk around York's superb city walls. Follow the route of this city shaping defensive structure with this York City Walls tour. We point out what remains, what used to exist and how the walls impacted the history of York.
Our Tours
Edinburgh Tours
The Edinburgh Old Town Interactive Guided Tour
Visit the Closes and Wynds of Edinburgh's Old Town with this massive, feature packed, virtual Edinburgh tour. We take you around some of this historic city's most famous, and infamous, locations. Public execution places (5 of them!!!), sites of long forgotten palaces and over 100 other scenes are yours to visit on this massive virtual tour..all from the comfort of your home PC!
More than just Greyfriars Bobby!
There's more to the graveyard of Greyfriars Kirk than the story of the faithful little Skye Terrier Greyfriars Bobby! Let our Interactive Guided Tour take you around the graves and tombs of murderers, lords, poets and executed criminals. We also visit the supposedly haunted Covenanters' Prison and learn of Sir George 'Bluidy' Mackenzie and the Covenanters who were imprisoned here.
Bodysnatchers and Burke and Hare - An Interactive Guided Tour Around Their Edinburgh
Visit Edinburgh locations which would have been familiar to Burke and Hare and the bodysnatchers!
Edinburgh's forgotten defence - The Flodden Wall
Take a fascinating tour around historic Edinburgh's nearly forgotten city walls. Follow the route of the Flodden Wall with this Interative Guided Tour. We point out what remains, what used to exist and how the walls impacted on the life of Edinburgh's populace. This unique virtual tour is packed with features which will make it an valuable resource for anyone with an interest in Edinburgh or Scottish history.
A FREE download - The Royal Mile of Edinburgh Guided Tour
Take an Edinburgh tour with a difference! This free to download virtual tour will take you down the historic Royal Mile. We've included links to different Edinburgh tourist attractions, many of them free to enter, and archive images to give you a taste of the past.
York Tours
Explore one of England's most historic cities with this feature packed, York tour. We take you around some of this historic city's most famous, and infamous, locations...all from the comfort of your home PC! Let this easy to use software show you the way!
Chester Tours
The Chester City Walls Interactive Guided Tour
Take a fascinating tour around the historic defences of Chester. Follow the route of this city shaping defensive structure in this Chester City Walls tour with a difference!. We point out what remains, what used to exist and how the walls impacted the history of this strategically important town.
Lindisfarne Tour
Explore historic Lindisfarne without having to worry about the Holy Island tide times!
Explore Lindisfarne from the comfort of your home PC with this unique virtual tour! With this software there's no need to search for Holy Island tide times, so sit back and enjoy a taste of this picturesque part of England.
Waverley Tour
Explore the famous Paddle Steamer Waverley with this virtual tour
The Paddle Steamer Waverley is one of the most famous ships in the world. Take a detailed virtual tour on this Clyde-built delight. The Waverley is the world's last sea going paddler and this guided tour reveals her history and the fight to preserve her as a working ship.
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