Footprints of London

Discover the life of Stella Gibbons, who published over 20 novels as well as Cold Comfort Farm, her first novel. Discover the life of Stella Gibbons, who published over 20 novels as well as Cold Comfort Farm, her first novel, which achieved widespread success. She lived on the Holly Lodge Estate, Highgate, which had been…

Discover 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…

Explore 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…