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…

A literary romp round Mayfair in the company of Michael Arlen, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell and Nancy Mitford. Follow the green hat, discover vile bodies and dance to the music of time on this literary romp round Mayfair; the playground of the Bright Young Things in the 1920s. We’ll hear readings from works by Michael…

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 devastation 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…