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We have four different walks and a talk featuring Virginia Woolf in the Footprints Literary festival in October, so plenty of opportunity to hear about her life and works. But perhaps one of the oddest stories associated with Virginia Woolf relates to her part in a 1910 hoax perpetrated on the Royal Navy in February…
Read moreFootprints of London Guides Richard Watkins and Steve Pratt talk about their forthcoming new walk about The Great Fire of Westminster One of the paintings featured in the Tate Britain’s current exhibition, “Late Turner: Painting Set Free ”, is The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons 16 October 1834, amongst others on the…
Read moreCharles Lamb, the famous Essayist and Author was born on 10th February 1775 in Crown Office Row in the Inner Temple (his father was a clerk). Charles Lamb is associated with many locations in London. Not only was he born in the Temple, but he went to Christ’s Hospital – the famous City of London…
Read moreSome exciting news from Mark Rowland about a new film project that Footprints of London is helping with. Since I became chairman of Footprints of London earlier this year a number of propositions for partnerships have crossed my inbox and Twitter account. I was contacted towards the back end of last week by a chap called Alex…
Read moreLiterary Footprints got off to a fine start yesterday with two excellent events. Sue Bingham led the walk Embankment to Covent Garden – Literary Heroes Sue told some excellent Sherlock Holmes stories introducing us to Arthur Conan Doyle’s hybrid London of fictional and real locations. Within a few minutes she introduced the group to a…
Read moreNew Footprints of London guide Hazel shares themes in her ‘Follow the Footsteps of Oliver Twist’ walk. Charles Dickens was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and deeply descriptive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable. In his second major work, Oliver Twist, he highlights a number of social issues including the…
Read moreNew Footprints of London guide Sheldon Goodman previews his forthcoming tour of Brompton Cemetery ‘A Cemetery tour? Good grief, that’s a bit morbid isn’t it?’ ‘I can’t stand Cemeteries. They’re too creepy. They’re all depressing and horrible!’ For the longest time, Cemeteries have suffered from an image crisis that seems peculiarly confined to the UK…
Read moreAs part of the Literary Footprints Festival we are hosting an event called Bleeding London which will preview a new exhibition by the Royal photographic Society. To celebrate the Footprints of London Guides are nominating their favourite streets. This time Neil Sinclair and Maggie Blake’s Cause Maggie Blake’s Cause is a small alleyway connecting Shad…
Read moreOur Literary Footprints Festival starts on 1st October and the Footprints of London Guides are sharing their favourite Literary London locations. This time Stephen Benton looks at Rossetti’s house in Chelsea Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived out his last years in Chelsea in a house in Cheyne Walk and is one of the writers featured in…
Read moreAs part of our Literary Footprints Festival we are holding an evening called Bleeding London – which includes a preview of the Royal Photographic Society Exhibition of their project to photograph every street in London. The Footprints of London guides have been choosing their favourite streets – this time Sue Bingham looks at Exeter ‘Change…
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