Actual Education Interactive Guided Tours - Edinburgh Tours, York Tours, Chester Tours and more!

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-The next best thing to being there!-.........................................................This section last updated manually 4/4/12
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Explore, experience and enjoy historic cities from the comfort of your home computer! Owning one of our virtual tours is a bit like having a historic place on your computer.

Our software tours are a mixture of historical guidebook, walking tour and tourist handbook. Each one features immersive 360° images which let you use your mouse to 'look around'. All our tours come with informative text and accompanying audio voice-overs and many feature rotatable models, archive images, maps and video clips.

The software may be packed with features but it is incredibly simple to use. If you can use a mouse, and your PC runs Windows XP, Vista or 7, then you can enjoy these tours! You also get a 30 day, no quibble, money back guarantee.

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-Sign up and get this free Edinburgh eBook!-.................................. ......... .This section last updated manually 5/4/12
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This beautifully illustrated, 220 page Edinburgh guidebook takes in over 100 different locations around the Old Town. For a limited time only, you can get this for free by entering your email address in the box above.

Members get access to our exclusive members area. Joining up is really easy, just fill in the box below, free and secure. We don't share you information with any third parties.

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-Panorama of the month-.............................................................. ....... .This section last updated manually 13/4/12
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This panoramic scene features Edinburgh Castle in the snow last winter. We're playing about with a special effect just now which we aren't sure if we will include in any of our tours - namely a moving snow effect. If you love it or hate it please let us know! The scene shows Edinburgh Castle. The two prominent buildings you can see from this angle are the palace quarters and the rounded Half-Moon Battery. This simple panoramic scene compliments this month's member newsletter and free David's Tower resource.

To control the image above, simply click on it, click and hold your left mouse button and very smoothly move your mouse left and right, up and down to look around. Click on the green hotspots to move forward to the next scene, or the red ones to go back to the previous scene. Clicking on the numbered hotspots will reveal rotatable models, video clips or images. You can 'drag' the rotatable models left or right to manipulate them.

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-Current newsletter-............................................................................. This section last updated manually 15/4/12
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Our monthly newsletter contains up-to-date information about some of the locations covered in our Interactive Guided Tours - mainly York, Chester and Edinburgh. Links to relevant news articles are provided within the newsletter.

Each issue contains some travel tips about Edinburgh. We often include links to some interesting YouTube videos made by other people. A regular update on what tours we are currently working on is also provided - this is generally the only direct mention of our Interactive Guided Tours. This newsletter is primarily intended to be of use for people who are interested in the historic places we love - not as a hard-nosed sales tool.

Current members can access the latest newsletter here. All visitors can access older editions here.

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-This month's newsletter - David's Tower member resource-...................,This section last updated manually 13/4/12
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April's newsletter comes with a free resource. One of the most fascinating parts of Edinburgh Castle is the area underneath the Half-Moon Battery. This famous curved tower was built over the ruins of David's Tower, once the most important defensive work in the castle. David's Tower is sometimes open to the public and is by far and away the most wanted Edinburgh Castle tour...sadly it is only opened once in a while and booking is an absolute necessity - we tried to book two months in advance and the party of about 12 was already filled...and I was the 400th recipient of a 'sorry' email that day!

This month's newsletter discusses how you can see some of this atmospheric place. We've included an archaeological report from our archive for our members to enjoy. Click here to get this rare Edinburgh Castle guidebook!

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-Free things!-.......................................................................................... This section last updated manually 5/4/12
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Actual Education aims to be a company which shares our love of history with people around the world. We aren't going for the 'hard sell' approach so we've included an extensive, and ever growing, 'free stuff' section. Relax with our historic image jigsaws, send postcards featuring some very rare views of famous places or view some of our themed video clips.

We've been building up an extensive archive of old images of a number of different places covered in our Interactive Guided Tours. The 'Galleries' section of this website will let you view some galleries of images of Edinburgh, some dating back nearly two hundred years. You will need to view these on a laptop or handheld tablet capable of running Adobe Flash Player. If you wish to see an area of Edinburgh or York which hasn't been covered, send us an email and we will endevour to get some images online for you!

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-Can't I just use Google Earth?-...............................................................This section last updated manually 22/4/12
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We love Google Earth! It is a good way to explore a city somewhere in the world...so why should you think about buying one of our Interactive Guided Tours? Google Earth is great but it just wasn't designed to do what our tours do. Our tours tell you some of the best stories each location has on offer. Most of our tours take you on a carefully chosen pathway which follows streets, defensive walls, closes and courtyards. Archive images, rotatable models, video clips and photographs give an understanding of history which most typical virtual tours aren't designed to do. A picture doesn't always tell a thousand words!

Click here to see just how our Interactive Guided Tours compare next to Google Earth.

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