Walking Tour – Roaring Twenties Through Writers’ Eyes
Walking Tour – Roaring Twenties Through Writers’ Eyes
5 March 2026 Comments Off on Walking Tour – Roaring Twenties Through Writers’ EyesJazz, cocktails, fast cars and the Bright Young Things through the eyes of Waugh, Coward, Christie, Sayers,
Huxley, Woolf and others.
Huxley, Woolf and others.
- A walk around West End locations featured in 1920s fiction, hearing tales of nightclub raids, jazz music and modernist design, cocktails and cocaine and changing social mores in London’s traumatised post-WWI society.
- Amid the sensationalised hedonism, The Bright Young Things and their contemporaries revealed the nihilism and fear of the interwar period, and the resulting desire to upend the rules. Literature evolved rapidly; introducing a realism and grittiness popular with the 1920s public and still gripping today.
- From the whimsey and melancholy of Evelyn Waugh and Aldous Huxley’s lost young characters to the boundaries pushed by Noel Coward and Michael Arlen, with a dash of Agatha Christie and other crime fiction writers painting their own picture of 1920s London.
- As we hear these stories the walk will weave through popular West End locations Covent Garden, Chinatown, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus and Mayfair, highlighting modernist and Art Deco design from the era along the way.