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Discover the life of Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm in the Holly Lodge Estate, Highgate Discover the life of Stella Gibbons, who published over 20 novels as well as Cold Comfort Farm, her first novel, which achieved popular success. She lived on the Holly Lodge Estate, Highgate, which had been built on land…
Read moreExplore the anarchist circles in London through the eye of Joseph Conrad in his Secret Agent, based on true events Conrad’s The Secret Agent cast a critical eye over London at the end of the nineteenth century when the capital was home to a series of revolutionary anarchist groups. They had come to police attention…
Read moreDiscover the life of Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm in the Holly Lodge Estate, Highgate Discover the life of Stella Gibbons, who published over 20 novels as well as Cold Comfort Farm, her first novel, which achieved popular success. She lived on the Holly Lodge Estate, Highgate, which had been built on land…
Read moreDiscover the novels which draw on Bloomsbury’s experience of the Blitz Graham Greene’s End of the Affair and the Ministry of Fear are directly taken from his wartime experiences and love affairs in Bloomsbury as an air raid warden. Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark are other writers who transposed war time events into their literary…
Read moreDiscover hidden spaces and history around Green Lanes: One of a series of walks exploring the Suffragette Line Green Lanes today is a busy mix of different cultures, but hidden away are pockets of green, from the Railways Fields Nature Reserve to the New River and of course Finsbury Park. On this walk we will…
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