A protean character Walter Richard Sickert was a natural cosmopolitan. Born in Munich of a Danish-German father and Anglo-Irish mother, he had a full command of English, German and French,
Camden has a long and honourable history of radical theatre, from social and political issues of the day in the 19th century to the first on-stage nudity in a public
Denmark street is a thoroughfare only 100 yards long, linking Charing Cross Road and St Giles High Street, but it punches well above its weight in London’s music heritage. A
The wellspring of Dickens’ social concern The old saying that ‘the child is father to the man’ seems very apt when discussing Dickens’ writing on social issues. His childhood experiences
The Fitzroy Tavern The area we call Fitzrovia is named after the Fitzroy Tavern, which was one of the main social hubs of the area from after the First World
The Borough of Camden is home to many museums and galleries, the most well known probably being the British Museum located in Bloomsbury. But Camden is also home to many
In the photo above you can see the wonderful nineteenth century British Museum building we know today, designed by the architect Sir Robert Smirke in Greek revival style. The magnificent
This is a recording of a short interview for Bloomsbury Radio that took place during the recent Bloomsbury Festival with Richard Cohen being asked a few questions by Damilola Michelle
2 Willow Road became the first modernist property taken on by the National Trust and it opened to the public in 1996. Located at the bottom of Willow Road, Hampstead,
Frank Pick’s legacy This will be my third Blog based on Camden’s tube stations and I do feel I am becoming extremely familiar with, and rather fond of, all 17
Tourists to London often flock to visit locations they have seen in films. With some of the most iconic landmarks on the planet, rich historic locations are used to make
A life in books I first read the Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1919- 2013 ) in my twenties, when I was working in Tanzania, East Africa as a Volunteer