[ July 19, 2008; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Niall McDevitt leads a walk from Yeats’s Woburn Walk flat to The Olde Cheshire Cheese pub, a trip through Pre-Raphaelitism/Symbolism/Decadance/Modernism, meeting such associates as Olivia Shakespear, Rabindranath Tagore, Maud Gonne, Oscar Wilde, Lionel Johnson, Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound and many others.
Recommended reading:
Roy Foster, W.B. Yeats: The Apprentice Mage, [...]
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[ July 12, 2008; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Presented by The Sohemian Society in association with The London Adventure.
A guided walk around Patrick Hamilton’s world with Nigel Jones and Marc Glendening
Meet at Earls Court station, Earls Court Road exit. This jouney in deepest Hangover Square territory will take appoximately two hours and conclude at the King’s Head, 17 Hogarth Place (off Earls Court [...]
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[ July 12, 2008; 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] London MAGTASTIC: The event for those who love London and those who love reading about it. There are millions of stories in this well dressed city and this is the place to find some of the best.
Smoke, the Other Side, Litro, Pavement and One Eye Grey are amongst the many independent and London focused magazines [...]
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[ June 30, 2007; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] One Eye Grey is the first Penny Dreadful for over a century to hit the streets of London. To celebrate the launch of the second volume (A goose in Southwark) F&M Publications are offering the opportunity to be squired around those city streets. There are two free walks on offer at the end of June [...]
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