Walking Tour: Diverse London: Bloomsbury in the 1920s

Walking Tour: Diverse London: Bloomsbury in the 1920s

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Date:

November 16

Time:

15:00 - 16:30

Event Category:

Oonagh Gay

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Organizer

Oonagh Gay, Footprints of London

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Venue

Russell Square Station

Bernard St, London, WC1N 1LJ.

London, England, GB, WC1N 1LJ.

1920s Bloomsbury attracted many new thinkers who promised a different future after World War One

Discover visionary cultural and political thinkers of the 1920s in East Bloomsbury, such as Winifred Holtby, Dorothy L Sayers and the economist Eileen Power. We associate Bloomsbury women with Virginia Woolf, but there were many other influencers who came here, attracted by low rents, and cultural connectivity. Women in particular could live here independently, and develop new ideas for society following the Greet War. Annie Besant took up the cause of Indian independence. Cultural life in London became much more diverse with the addition of women’s voices, and professions such as the law became open to them for the first time. See where the first woman barrister to prosecute a murder trial began her career; Helena Normanton has only recently been recognised with an English Heritage plaque. The walk ends near Holborn station

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