Travel Modernism Limited

Historical Tours


Please see an overview of our historical tours below and then discover more on each dedicated page.


Dunkirk - You've seen the amazing film by Christopher Nolan, now allow us to take you to the major sights where the Dunkirk evacuation took place in that desperate summer of 1940.


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First World War battlefields - With 2018 marking 100 years since the end of the First World War, why not join our knowledgeable expert and be given a guided tour of the main battles, visitor centres and memorials.  We can even tailor tours for those wanting to know about the experience of a relative and provide the opportunity to honour their memory.  Please see our dedicated page for further information.

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Scotland - The readers of the Rough Guide have recently voted Scotland as the most beautiful country in the world.  Scotland has plenty of reasons to visit from its impressive natural beauty to medieval castles to famed architects such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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Haworth - has a fascinating combination of striking scenery and cultural interest in the form of the Bronte family and the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

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North Wales - has a mythical quality that embraces the Snowdonia National Park, a ring of coastal fortresses and seaside resorts.  Portmeirion is a particularly special place that replicates an Italianate hillside village by the sea.

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South Wales - contains the industrial and cultural heritage of the nation and provides a compact itinerary for our guests.  We'll explore everything from the coal mining valleys to the inspiration for Dylan Thomas poetry amongst the Gower, South West Wales and that ugly, lovely town otherwise known as Swansea. 

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Dylan Thomas - the most famous literary figure to have emerged from Wales and someone who revolutionised poetry and drama in his focus of the observation of ordinary life.  This observation connects us in our humanity of themes of life, love and death that impacts us all and makes his work resonate with the world at large even after his early demise in 1953, aged just 39.  Dylan was born on 27 October 1914 in the front bedroom of 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, an Edwardian house in the middle class suburb of Swansea.  He described his surrounding area as â€¦crawling, sprawling by a long and splendid curving shore……Near the top of the hill a small, not very well painted, gateless house…Space at back sufficiently large for wash-house, clothes line, deck-chair, and three sparrows…Very nice, very respectable. Not much traffic. Lots of sparrows… 

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Normandy - From the D-Day Beaches, Le Mont St Michel, medieval and modernist architecture, Monet and the impressionist painters, music of Erik Satie, food and drink such as Calvados, Camembert, Pavé d’Auge, Livarot, Pont l’Evêque, Neufchatel, Boursin, Brillat-Savarain and Brin de Paille cheeses, there is something for everyone in this beautiful region of France.  See our dedicated page for further details.
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