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 Soho, Piccadilly and Mayfair locations featured in 1920s fiction, hearing the tales of nightclub raids, jazz music and modernist design, cocktails and cocaine and changing social mores in London’s traumatised high society after WW1.
- 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.
- The resulting shift in writing styles, in both form and content, led to a new realism and grittiness popular with the 1920s public – and still gripping today.