• The Astrolabe – to follow the stars and the sun!
    The Astrolabe – to follow the stars and the sun!
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    With only a day to go to the start of Literary Footprints 2018, Tina Baxter returns to tell us the story of what is considered the oldest detailed description of a scientific instrument in English.  You can discover more on Tina’s Chaucer – His Life & Times in the City walk, dates and booking details on…

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  • The Forgotten Patron
    The Forgotten Patron
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    With the start of Literary Footprints 2018 only a few days away, our series of special blog posts continues as Tina Baxter walks us around Bloomsbury in the company of TS Eliot’s J Alfred Prufrock.  You can discover more on Tina’s TS Eliot – Bloomsbury and Prufrock walk, dates and booking details on Tina’s walks…

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  • Exiled anarchists and political assassinations; Conrad’s The Secret Agent
    Exiled anarchists and political assassinations; Conrad’s The Secret Agent
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    In the next in our special series of Literary Footprints 2018 blog posts, Oonagh Gay dips into the  murky world of political intrigue in Victorian London.  You can find out more on Oonagh’s walk Conrad’s The Secret Agent: Anarchism in Fitzrovia, dates and booking details on Oonagh’s walks page. Victorian Britain was a nation which…

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  • Wearing a Green Hat
    Wearing a Green Hat
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    As the countdown to the October 1st start of Literary Footprints 2018 continues, Jen Pedler tells us more about one of the characters who features on her walk Mayfair’s Bright Young Things which features as part of our literary walks festival.  Hear more about Michael Arlen and his contemporaries – Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell and…

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  • Arrivederci Cheapside
    Arrivederci Cheapside
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    Literary Footprints 2018, our annual month of celebration of all things literary London starts on October 1st and you can find the full schedule of walks (over 60 this year!) by clicking the link above. As an hors d’ouvre our guides will over the next couple of weeks be sharing snippets from their walks. Jill…

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