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More from our Literary Footprints 2019 guides, this time Stephen Benton reveals the origins of the famous Bloomsbury Set. Discover more about their lives, loves and homes on his walk Circles, Squares and Triangles – Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury, full booking details are on Stephen’s walks page. The Bloomsbury Set was a group of English…
Read moreAs Literary Footprints 2019 gathers pace, Jen Pedler tells us the story behind a hotel which features in her Mayfair’s Bright Young Things walk, part of this years Footprints of London Literary Festival. You can find full booking details for the walk on Jen’s walks page. Shepheard’s Hotel features in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930)…
Read moreAnthony Davis is the next of our Literary Footprints 2019 guides to preview of one of his walks. In this post, he offers an insight into the life of Bram Stoker and offers some suggestions how he came to write his great novel, Dracula. Anthony’s new walk Bram Stoker and the Creation of Dracula –…
Read moreOur Literary Footprints 2019 posts continue with Oonagh Gay exploring the attraction of London to political misfits as highlighted in Joseph Conrad’s novel. Find out more on her walk Conrad’s The Secret Agent: Anarchism in Fitzrovia which features as part of our October festival of London literary walks, full booking details are on Oonagh’s walks…
Read moreIn the next of our Literary Footprints 2019 posts, Sue McCarthy highlights the indelible influence of Bloomsbury on the life and work of Dorothy L Sayers. You can discover more on Sue’s walk Dorothy L Sayers Bloomsbury which features as part of our annual October literary festival, full booking details are on Sue’s walks page….
Read moreContinuing our special series of Literary Footprints 2019 posts, Dave Charnick previews some of the London Shakespeare connections linked to his Echoes of Shakespeare walk which features as part of the festival on 24th October. Dave is running no fewer than three different Shakespeare walks during our festival, full booking details are on his walks…
Read moreNext in our special series of Literary Footprints 2019 posts is from Jen Pedler giving us a preview of her walk Sherlock Holmes – the Return, which features as part of this year’s Footprints of London Literary Festival. It follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they track down a murderer through the darkened mews…
Read more17-23 June is Refugee Week 2019. The theme this year is “You, me and those who came before” and is “an invitation to explore the lives of refugees – and those who have welcomed them – throughout the generations.” To mark this, three of our guides will be running tours during June that explore different…
Read moreJen takes up the baton again for the next of Footprints of London’s series of walks around the Capital Ring with Section 9 running from Greenford to South Kenton on Sunday 2nd June. Full details and booking link can be found here. This section is the hilliest part of the Capital Ring but the climbs…
Read moreOur odyssey of guided walks around the Capital Ring continues on May 19th with Jen Pedler’s walk from Richmond to Osterley Lock. At the end of this section, we will be approximately half way through our journey around London. Details and booking information for this section of the walk can be found here, meanwhile Jen…
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