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Anthony 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 moreDaniella King tells us about her walk Literary Southwark: Poets, Writers and Two Famous Diarists which features in our Literary Festival in October. It has often been said that a good walk should always end in an historical old inn. I’m pleased to say that my walk Literary Southwark: Poets, Writers and Two Famous Diarists…
Read moreWhat do you do if four of the most famous people in the world turn up outside your house? Ignore them of course! On Sunday 28th July 1968 The Beatles arrived outside this house in Highgate with photographers Don McCullin, Stephen Goldblatt and Tom Murray. The photoshoot was part of what became known as The…
Read moreAn overnight stop for P&O passengers heading for the Orient, a muse for novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling, a brothel frequented by ships’ captains and a retirement home for assorted ghosts. Grade II* listed Galyons Bar & Restaurant overlooking Royal Albert Dock marina has been all these things since it was built in 1883. But above all…
Read moreSouth of the River, Sue’s Bermondsey walk on 20th July celebrates the life and achievements of Ada Salter; socialist, pacifist, environmentalist, youth-worker and Quaker. Ada was the first female Mayor in London and the first Labour woman mayor in the British Isles. Ada loved singing and plants; with her husband, local doctor and MP Dr Alfred…
Read moreSue McCarthy continues our journey along the Capital Ring on 30th June – from Stoke Newington to Hackney Wick The stretch between Stoke Newington and Hackney Wick may be one of the shortest sections of the Capital Ring but it is certainly richly varied. We start on the old Roman road to Lincoln but…
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