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Come celebrate a world of inns, hops and beer! Photo: Site of Barclay Perkins Brewery – © David Charnick 2020 Join me to celebrate a time of inns and brewing. Come see traces of the hospitality offered by the inns of Borough High Street. Learn how central the hop trade was locally. And of course…
Read moreCome celebrate a world of inns, hops and beer! Photo: Site of Barclay Perkins Brewery – © David Charnick 2020 Join me to celebrate a time of inns and brewing. Come see traces of the hospitality offered by the inns of Borough High Street. Learn how central the hop trade was locally. And of course…
Read moreExplore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! Photo: Marshalsea Prison Wall – © David Charnick 2020 The works of Charles Dickens are informed by his urban insights, founded on the observations of the journalist and shot through with human understanding. Join me in celebrating the London evoked by an authentic voice of…
Read moreExplore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! Photo: Marshalsea Prison Wall – © David Charnick 2020 The works of Charles Dickens are informed by his urban insights, founded on the observations of the journalist and shot through with human understanding. Join me in celebrating the London evoked by an authentic voice of…
Read moreExplore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! Photo: Marshalsea Prison Wall – © David Charnick 2020 The works of Charles Dickens are informed by his urban insights, founded on the observations of the journalist and shot through with human understanding. Join me in celebrating the London evoked by an authentic voice of…
Read moreCelebrate the many sides of Dictionary Johnson! Photo: Samuel Johnson by Percy Fitzgerald (detail), St Clement Danes – © David Charnick 2022 In 1737 a teacher with an uncertain future arrived in London in the company of one of his former pupils. The former pupil was David Garrick, who would become one of the most…
Read moreCelebrate the many sides of Dictionary Johnson! Photo: Samuel Johnson by Percy Fitzgerald (detail), St Clement Danes – © David Charnick 2022 In 1737 a teacher with an uncertain future arrived in London in the company of one of his former pupils. The former pupil was David Garrick, who would become one of the most…
Read moreCelebrate the secret world in words! Photo: Cambridge Circus Sign – © David Charnick 2020 What’s your preference – George Smiley or James Bond? Both feature in this exploration of the shadowy world of secret agents in fiction. The tour features site-specific readings – some obvious, some much less so! Join me in a literary…
Read moreCelebrate the secret world in words! Photo: Cambridge Circus Sign – © David Charnick 2020 What’s your preference – George Smiley or James Bond? Both feature in this exploration of the shadowy world of secret agents in fiction. The tour features site-specific readings – some obvious, some much less so! Join me on a literary…
Read moreUncover a secret world of intelligence activity in St James’s Photo: St Ermin’s Hotel, Caxton Street – © David Charnick 2023 The St James’s area is redolent with history. It has traditional shops, some going back to the eighteenth and even seventeenth centuries. It has Jermyn Street, famous for its style. And of course it…
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