Bright Bloomsbury has long been haunted by darker visions. Beneath its reputation as a centre of learning and literature lies a landscape that inspired spiritualists and mystics, nurtured urban Gothic writer Arthur Machen, and provided the architectural blueprint for Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Join author and cultural historian Lester Hillman for a fascinating journey through Bloomsbury’s hidden past. Along the way you’ll encounter spies, secret histories and extraordinary characters, from John Buchan’s Richard Hannay and The Thirty-Nine Steps to Cold War espionage, a hidden sculpture, an assassinated Regency Prime Minister, the remarkable eighteenth century fencer and spy Chevalier d’Éon, Kenneth Williams in his centenary year, and Sir Andrew Judde, the last English Mayor of Calais.
Part literary pilgrimage, part urban exploration and part memento mori, this walk uncovers the remarkable stories and forgotten lives concealed behind Bloomsbury’s elegant façades.
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The Shadowlands of Bloomsbury
A Guided Tour looking at the Ghosts, Spies and Hidden Histories of WC1 |
10:00 - 11:30 | £16.50 |
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