Grand Tour This link opens in a new windowThe Grand Tour is a digital collection of accounts of the English abroad c1550-1850. This collection includes letters, diaries and journals, account books, printed guidebooks, published travel writing, paintings and sketches, and architectural drawings and maps. These cover topics including daily life in the eighteenth century, European political and religious life, British diplomacy, life at court, and social customs on the Continent. There is a wealth of detail about cities such as Paris, Rome, Florence, and Geneva, including written accounts and visual representations of street life, architecture and urban planning.