Footprints of London

Relive Dickens’s dramatic retelling of the 1780 anti-Catholic riots that consumed London. Barnaby Rudge; a Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty tells the story of simpleton Barnaby Rudge and his pet raven Grip who were caught up in the anti-Catholic riots that spread terror and destruction throughout London in 1780. This, the first of Dickens’s…

Rose Macaulay’s ‘The World My Wilderness’ conjures up the devastation of the post-war City. Rose Macaulay’s penulitimate novel The World My Wilderness (1950) is an evocative account of the devestation of the CIty during the Blitz of World War Two. Semi-feral 17 year-old Barbary and her step-brother Raoul create a world for themselves in the…