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SUMMARY:Meet the Guides - Camden Tour Guides Association FREE walk
DESCRIPTION:This FREE walk is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning about becoming a qualified Camden Tour Guide\, offering an opportunity to meet existing Camden Guides\, go with them on a tour around the King’s Cross area and have a chance to talk to them about the course and what it’s like to be a tour guide in Camden today. \nThe next course starts end September 2024. If you are unable to come on this date but are interested in the course\, then please email course@camdenguides.com or visit our website for information at https://camdenguides.com/training.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/meet-the-guides-camden-tour-guides-association-free-walk-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240629T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240629T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
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SUMMARY:Hampstead: the village on the hill
DESCRIPTION:You probably know Hampstead as a very attractive area of very posh houses and very famous people. But why is it so lovely to walk around? \nIt’s a lot to do with a hill which prevented major roads and any railways being built: so uniquely in London it preserves a Georgian village streetscape. It also had many springs which supported a Tudor laundry business and then a fashionable Spa attraction in the 1700’s. \nAnd its healthy air and great views have always made it an attractive place for the wealthy\, and for artists\, writers and entertainers. So there are plenty of lovely houses to see: but this walk also explores buildings such as old workhouses and bath houses which remind us that plenty of “ordinary” people lived there too! \nBut above all its a beautiful old village on a hill: do come and explore it!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/hampstead-the-village-on-the-hill/2024-06-29/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T200418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T200418Z
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SUMMARY:Slums and Squares and Rock n'Roll
DESCRIPTION:You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles’ area: Tottenham Court Rd tube\, Centrepoint\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Seven Dials…but you probably don’t know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting\, a medieval leper colony\, a failed posh residential district\, a notorious Victorian slum and the most unspoilt Georgian square in London. I would be delighted to help you explore all this (and see the street where Elton John worked as a tea boy and the Rolling Stones and Genesis recorded their earliest singles).
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/slums-and-squares-and-rock-nroll-3/2024-06-23/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T195857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195857Z
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SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Hidden Holborn and Little Italy
DESCRIPTION:Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn\, on the north-western edge of the City.\nA medieval bishop’s palace (you can still go into the crypt\, built in the 1270’s): a Tudor-era pub down a narrow alley: multiple diamond dealers and the site of a famous heist by geriatric thieves (the “diamond wheezers”): London’s first social housing project: a half-timbered Tudor hall which survived the Great Fire: we see all these on the walk.\nWe also focus on exploring “Little Italy”: not much recognised now\, in the 1800’s a few streets here were teeming with Italian immigrants\, both middle-class artisans making barometers and poorer people selling ice cream and playing barrel organs.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/living-on-the-edge-hidden-holborn-and-little-italy/2024-06-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240419T124054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T124054Z
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SUMMARY:Meet the Guides - Camden Tour Guides Association FREE walk
DESCRIPTION:This FREE walk is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning about becoming a qualified Camden Tour Guide\, offering an opportunity to meet existing Camden Guides\, go with them on a tour around the King’s Cross area and have a chance to talk to them about the course and what it’s like to be a tour guide in Camden today. \nThe next course starts end September 2024. If you are unable to come on this date but are interested in the course\, then please email course@camdenguides.com or visit our website for information at https://camdenguides.com/training.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/meet-the-guides-camden-tour-guides-association-free-walk-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240616T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240616T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T195857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195857Z
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SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Hidden Holborn and Little Italy
DESCRIPTION:Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn\, on the north-western edge of the City.\nA medieval bishop’s palace (you can still go into the crypt\, built in the 1270’s): a Tudor-era pub down a narrow alley: multiple diamond dealers and the site of a famous heist by geriatric thieves (the “diamond wheezers”): London’s first social housing project: a half-timbered Tudor hall which survived the Great Fire: we see all these on the walk.\nWe also focus on exploring “Little Italy”: not much recognised now\, in the 1800’s a few streets here were teeming with Italian immigrants\, both middle-class artisans making barometers and poorer people selling ice cream and playing barrel organs.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/living-on-the-edge-hidden-holborn-and-little-italy/2024-06-16/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240615T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240615T000000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240505T191228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240505T191228Z
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SUMMARY:Campaigning for the Abolition of Slavery: Central London Landmarks
DESCRIPTION:This walk reveals where many key London events took place in British campaigns against slavery and slave-trading between the mid-1800s and mid-1900s. Fugitive and former slaves\, white lawyers and activists\, black activists\, orators\, authors and musicians come alive in a walk from Chancery Lane to Fleet Street\, Lincoln’s Inn and Covent Garden ending at Embankment Gardens. The capture in London of escaped slaves led to legal cases espoused by campaigners. Slaves were given as gifts by West Indies travellers to wealthy Londoners who often considered them fashion-accessories. There were small communities of free blacks\, many working as servants\, and blacks made free by fighting on the British side during wars thronged to London\, some becoming beggars but others got by and even moved into the middle classes. On the walk you meet Olaudah Equiano\, James Somerset\, Granville Sharp\, Billy Waters\, Sarah Parker Remond\, Thomas Clarkson\, Mary Prince\, Ottobah Cuguano\, Elizabeth Heyrick\, Samuel Johnson\, the Fisk Jubilee Singers and more names now usually forgotten.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/campaigning-for-the-abolition-of-slavery-central-london-landmarks/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240608T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240608T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T195427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195427Z
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SUMMARY:Hampstead: the village on the hill
DESCRIPTION:You probably know Hampstead as a very attractive area of very posh houses and very famous people. But why is it so lovely to walk around? \nIt’s a lot to do with a hill which prevented major roads and any railways being built: so uniquely in London it preserves a Georgian village streetscape. It also had many springs which supported a Tudor laundry business and then a fashionable Spa attraction in the 1700’s. \nAnd its healthy air and great views have always made it an attractive place for the wealthy\, and for artists\, writers and entertainers. So there are plenty of lovely houses to see: but this walk also explores buildings such as old workhouses and bath houses which remind us that plenty of “ordinary” people lived there too! \nBut above all its a beautiful old village on a hill: do come and explore it!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/hampstead-the-village-on-the-hill/2024-06-08/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240608T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240608T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240423T093540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T093540Z
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SUMMARY:London's Sex Industry and the Stage in the Long 18th Century
DESCRIPTION:Charles II lifted the Puritan ban on theatre-going\, and by 1700 London was sex-capital of Europe. This walk starts with the stage at a time when all actresses were assumed to be prostitutes and theatres a place for clients to find them. We pass through areas where street-walkers and bawdy houses were closely linked with playhouses\, and we hear about high-class masquerades where actress-courtesans like Sophia Baddely might appear. There are the bawds who kept houses\, the women who worked in them\, like Nell Gywn and Sally Salisbury\, and Harris’s List\, where they might advertise. \nWe hear about homosexual Molly Houses as well as Jelly Houses\, Coffee Houses and Bagnios. Links between corrupt government officials and criminals formed the plot of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera in 1728\, with its cast of thief-takers\, highwaymen\, pickpockets and sex workers like Jenny Diver who met in flash houses where they spoke a secret language. The unscrupulous Society for the Reform of Manners tried to close down vice\, but things began to change when Social Reformers said women selling sex were victims needing rescue. \nThe walk starts in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and passes through Covent Garden and surrounding streets like Drury Lane\, where ordinary folks lived who sold sex – orange women\, flower girls and patrons of dance halls. The underworld called this red-light area where you might meet Edgworth Bess the Hundreds of Drury.Charles II lifted the Puritan ban on theatre-going\, and by 1700 London was sex-capital of Europe. This walk starts with the stage at a time when all actresses were assumed to be prostitutes and theatres a place for clients to find them. We pass through areas where street-walkers and bawdy houses were closely linked with playhouses\, and we hear about high-class masquerades where actress-courtesans like Sophia Baddely might appear. There are the bawds who kept houses\, the women who worked in them\, like Nell Gywn and Sally Salisbury\, and Harris’s List\, where they might advertise. We hear about homosexual Molly Houses as well as Jelly Houses\, Coffee Houses and Bagnios. Links between corrupt government officials and criminals formed the plot of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera in 1728\, with its cast of thief-takers\, highwaymen\, pickpockets and sex workers like Jenny Diver who met in flash houses where they spoke a secret language. \nThe unscrupulous Society for the Reform of Manners tried to close down vice\, but things began to change when Social Reformers said women selling sex were victims needing rescue. The walk starts in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and passes through Covent Garden and surrounding streets like Drury Lane\, where ordinary folks lived who sold sex – orange women\, flower girls and patrons of dance halls. The underworld called this red-light area where you might meet Edgworth Bess the Hundreds of Drury.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/londons-sex-industry-and-the-stage-in-the-long-18th-century-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T200418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T200418Z
UID:10000058-1717336800-1717344000@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Slums and Squares and Rock n'Roll
DESCRIPTION:You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles’ area: Tottenham Court Rd tube\, Centrepoint\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Seven Dials…but you probably don’t know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting\, a medieval leper colony\, a failed posh residential district\, a notorious Victorian slum and the most unspoilt Georgian square in London. I would be delighted to help you explore all this (and see the street where Elton John worked as a tea boy and the Rolling Stones and Genesis recorded their earliest singles).
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/slums-and-squares-and-rock-nroll-3/2024-06-02/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T195857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195857Z
UID:10000050-1717326000-1717333200@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Hidden Holborn and Little Italy
DESCRIPTION:Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn\, on the north-western edge of the City.\nA medieval bishop’s palace (you can still go into the crypt\, built in the 1270’s): a Tudor-era pub down a narrow alley: multiple diamond dealers and the site of a famous heist by geriatric thieves (the “diamond wheezers”): London’s first social housing project: a half-timbered Tudor hall which survived the Great Fire: we see all these on the walk.\nWe also focus on exploring “Little Italy”: not much recognised now\, in the 1800’s a few streets here were teeming with Italian immigrants\, both middle-class artisans making barometers and poorer people selling ice cream and playing barrel organs.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/living-on-the-edge-hidden-holborn-and-little-italy/2024-06-02/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240423T093033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T093033Z
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SUMMARY:Creative\, Cultural\, Colourful Fitzrovia
DESCRIPTION:Fitzrovia is an area to savour and where better to spend a Spring Sunday afternoon than exploring its elegant squares\, Georgian streets and cosmopolitan feel? See some truly outstanding architecture from the 18th\, 19th\, 20th and even 21st centuries. Walk through secret pocket parks. Hear stories of the diverse communities that have lived and worked in Fitzrovia and how it has changed and transformed over time. Learn about the recent improvements in public realm brought about by the West End Project. Meet some of the extraordinary individuals who have lived in the area including Olaudah Equiano\, Mary Prince\, Lady Ottoline Morrell\, the colourful habitués of the Fitzroy Tavern and many more. All proceeds from this walk will go towards the work of Amnesty International to fund their work supporting prisoners of conscience and campaigners for democratic rights around the world. As there is no upper limit to your contributions please contribute generously!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/creative-cultural-colourful-fitzrovia/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240319T184832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T184832Z
UID:10000064-1716728400-1716735600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Gin Lane: Thieves and Thief-takers in the Night-Cellars of Seven Dials
DESCRIPTION:Now it’s trendy and pretty\, but 18th-century Seven Dials was notorious for poverty and crime. With no organised police force\, thieves\, highwaymen and fences bribed those hired to catch them\, meeting in low-down dives where they spoke a secret language called flash. The notoriously corrupt Jonathan Wild captured thief Jack Sheppard more than once\, but Jack made dramatic escapes from prison aided by his sexworker-partner Edgworth Bess. \nWith gin selling at a penny a glass\, carousing was full-on in areas outsiders called rookeries\, thieves’ kitchens\, the Holy Land (because of the Irish presence) and\, for Drury Lane’s red-light zone\, Little Sodom. A range of middle-class spies\, social investigators\, reporters and slum-tourists came to look and sometimes participate in goings-on they found appalling and titillating. John Gay portrayed popular hero Jack Sheppard and Public Enemy Jonathan Wild in the characters of Captain MacHeath and Mr Peachum\, in The Beggar’s Opera\, London’s favourite theatre-piece throughout the 18th century. What fun!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/gin-lane-thieves-and-thief-takers-in-the-night-cellars-of-seven-dials/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240519T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240519T153000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240416T184119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T184119Z
UID:10000065-1716127200-1716132600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Rebels and Blue Stockings: The New Woman in Bloomsbury
DESCRIPTION:Free-spirited and independent\, educated and uninterested in marriage and children\, the figure of the New Woman threatened conventional ideas about ideal Victorian womanhood. On this walk we will discover how Kate Greenaway\, a female artist from a working class background\, Eleanor Marx\, a regular at the British Library Reading Room and the archeologist Mary Brodrick found a life outside conventional Victorian norms. The founding of Bedford College\, led to higher education for women\, and the creation of College Hall enabled women students to study independently.\n19th century Bloomsbury was a hub of activism. Women were pushing against laws confining them to traditional roles. Pascal Theatre Company is running a two-year Lottery Heritage Funded project: Women for Women: 19th century women in Bloomsbury Current Projects – Pascal Theatre Company (pascal-theatre.com) We are celebrating those who worked at breaking down barriers and who fought to create opportunities for future generations. For more information and to get involved in research\, workshops or events contact: sally@pascal-theatre.com
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/rebels-and-blue-stockings-the-new-woman-in-bloomsbury/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240419T123755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T123755Z
UID:10000066-1715882400-1715886000@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Meet the Guides - Camden Tour Guides Association FREE walk
DESCRIPTION:This FREE walk is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning about becoming a qualified Camden Tour Guide\, offering an opportunity to meet existing Camden Guides\, go with them on a tour around the King’s Cross area and have a chance to talk to them about the course and what it’s like to be a tour guide in Camden today. \nThe next course starts end September 2024. If you are unable to come on any of our Meet the Guide dates but are interested in the course\, then please email course@camdenguides.com or visit our website for information at https://camdenguides.com/training.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/meet-the-guides-camden-tour-guides-association-free-walk/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240313T171600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T171600Z
UID:10000061-1715684400-1715691600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Curious Camden Town
DESCRIPTION:Discover Camden Town with Elena\, a resident of 30+ years. \nIt’s lively\, it’s quirky\, it’s cosmopolitan and it’s packed full of history! Camden Town is all of these things. It’s a neighbourhood that has been shaped by many communities\, from the Irish to the Greek-Cypriots\, each leaving an indelible mark. Charles Dickens\, a very unhappy former resident\, immortalised Camden Town’s poverty\, squalor and deprivation in his literary musings. \nCamden Town was developed at the end of the 18th century with the aim to attract the wealthy middle classes\, but the arrival of the railways put a stop to those ambitious plans. On the plus side\, it now boasts the best-preserved railway heritage complex in the UK! \nOn this walk you will hear about the gin warehouses that once lined the Regent’s Canal\, the Victorian ice-wells now hidden from view and the hundreds of horses working in the goodyards. You will also discover how Camden’s numerous pubs\, ballrooms and warehouses have become a mecca for music makers and music lovers over the decades.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/curious-camden-town/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240512T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240512T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240307T100433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T100543Z
UID:10000060-1715511600-1715518800@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Humble Homes: A walking tour of workers' housing in Camden
DESCRIPTION:Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home \nJoin Ellika\, qualified Camden Tour Guide as she explores the streets covering the foothils of Hampstead Heath and the often groundbreaking styles of domestic architecture that can be found there. Learn how the architecture influenced the lives of the residents and how the residents impacted the architecture \nVisit the Iconic Isokon \, the first modernist block of flats in Britain which pioneered the concept of minimalist stylish city living. Hear more about the lives of residents such as Agatha Christie\, Walter Gropius and Soviet Spy Arnold Deutsch \nThe modernist theme continues as we explore the Fleet Road Estate – the first estate in Neave Brown’s ambitious social housing building programme during Camden Council’s golden age. The humanist approach to town drew international acclaim but lost favour in 1970s Britain – make your own mind up as to what you think about it. \nDive back in history to the Georgian workers’ cottages and cobbles of the charming Little Green St – find out why the cottages have such long gardens and perhaps recognise it from a 1960s pop video \nExplore the eye-catching terraces of houses painted in their co-ordinating pastel shades – discover where the trend began and how the colours are decided …oh and make sure you take a few photos for the instagram!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/humble-homes-a-walking-tour-of-workers-housing-in-camden/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240427T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240427T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T195857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195857Z
UID:10000049-1714215600-1714222800@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Hidden Holborn and Little Italy
DESCRIPTION:Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn\, on the north-western edge of the City.\nA medieval bishop’s palace (you can still go into the crypt\, built in the 1270’s): a Tudor-era pub down a narrow alley: multiple diamond dealers and the site of a famous heist by geriatric thieves (the “diamond wheezers”): London’s first social housing project: a half-timbered Tudor hall which survived the Great Fire: we see all these on the walk.\nWe also focus on exploring “Little Italy”: not much recognised now\, in the 1800’s a few streets here were teeming with Italian immigrants\, both middle-class artisans making barometers and poorer people selling ice cream and playing barrel organs.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/living-on-the-edge-hidden-holborn-and-little-italy/2024-04-27/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240421T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240421T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T200418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T200418Z
UID:10000057-1713708000-1713715200@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Slums and Squares and Rock n'Roll
DESCRIPTION:You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles’ area: Tottenham Court Rd tube\, Centrepoint\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Seven Dials…but you probably don’t know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting\, a medieval leper colony\, a failed posh residential district\, a notorious Victorian slum and the most unspoilt Georgian square in London. I would be delighted to help you explore all this (and see the street where Elton John worked as a tea boy and the Rolling Stones and Genesis recorded their earliest singles).
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/slums-and-squares-and-rock-nroll-3/2024-04-21/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240414T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240414T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T200418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T200418Z
UID:10000056-1713103200-1713110400@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Slums and Squares and Rock n'Roll
DESCRIPTION:You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles’ area: Tottenham Court Rd tube\, Centrepoint\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Seven Dials…but you probably don’t know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting\, a medieval leper colony\, a failed posh residential district\, a notorious Victorian slum and the most unspoilt Georgian square in London. I would be delighted to help you explore all this (and see the street where Elton John worked as a tea boy and the Rolling Stones and Genesis recorded their earliest singles).
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/slums-and-squares-and-rock-nroll-3/2024-04-14/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240414T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240414T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240313T172246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T172246Z
UID:10000063-1713092400-1713106800@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:In art and in life: face to face with 12 inspiring Bloomsbury women (walk and gallery visit)
DESCRIPTION:Join Elena on a guided WALK IN BLOOMSBURY followed by a visit to the newly re-opened NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. \nPLEASE NOTE THIS WILL BE A 4 HOUR EVENT (including a refreshment break). \nThis walk will celebrate the incredible women who made Bloomsbury a hub of creativity and empowerment. \nStarting at Russell Square tube\, we will meander through the streets of Bloomsbury\, unveiling the fascinating stories of an incredible bunch of women who all left a mark on society in their own different ways – after all\, Bloomsbury is where the “New Woman” was born at the turn of the century. \nLiterary giants\, groundbreaking artists\, intrepid explorers\, social reformers\, maverick medics\, suffragists\, suffragettes and exuberant socialites – they all defied conventions and smashed stereotypes\, paving the way for future generations. \nFollowing the walk\, we will stop for a well-deserved refreshment break before heading (by bus) to the beautifully refurbished and newly reopened National Portrait Gallery on Charing Cross Road. \nHere we will meet these women face to face in wonderful portraits and photographs. We will have the opportunity to connect with them on a personal level\, exploring their achievements through the lens of art.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/in-art-and-in-life-face-to-face-with-12-inspiring-bloomsbury-women-walk-and-gallery-visit-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240412T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240412T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240313T172100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T172100Z
UID:10000062-1712919600-1712934000@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:In art and in life: face to face with 12 inspiring Bloomsbury women (walk and gallery visit)
DESCRIPTION:Join Elena on a guided WALK IN BLOOMSBURY followed by a visit to the newly re-opened NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. \nPLEASE NOTE THIS WILL BE A 4 HOUR EVENT (including a refreshment break). \nThis walk will celebrate the incredible women who made Bloomsbury a hub of creativity and empowerment. \nStarting at Russell Square tube\, we will meander through the streets of Bloomsbury\, unveiling the fascinating stories of an incredible bunch of women who all left a mark on society in their own different ways – after all\, Bloomsbury is where the “New Woman” was born at the turn of the century. \nLiterary giants\, groundbreaking artists\, intrepid explorers\, social reformers\, maverick medics\, suffragists\, suffragettes and exuberant socialites – they all defied conventions and smashed stereotypes\, paving the way for future generations. \nFollowing the walk\, we will stop for a well-deserved refreshment break before heading (by bus) to the beautifully refurbished and newly reopened National Portrait Gallery on Charing Cross Road. \nHere we will meet these women face to face in wonderful portraits and photographs. We will have the opportunity to connect with them on a personal level\, exploring their achievements through the lens of art.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/in-art-and-in-life-face-to-face-with-12-inspiring-bloomsbury-women-walk-and-gallery-visit/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240404T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240404T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240201T144014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240201T144014Z
UID:10000036-1712228400-1712235600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Duels\, Druids and Dalmatians: a stroll in charming Primrose Hill
DESCRIPTION:Discover a very cosmopolitan “urban village” in North London with Elena. \nWe will explore historic Primrose Hill\, one of London’s prettiest “urban villages”\, and its magnificent park: from the top of the hill you can enjoy clear views of London’s skyline. \nThe area\, with its continental cafés and independent shops\, has been and still is a highly desirable place to live among the rich and famous\, attracting a very cosmopolitan (and sometimes mystical) crowd. On this walk we will discover the stories of many famous international residents from the past: a tragic American poet\, a Welsh bard\, a German philosopher\, the hero of the Philippines and even a little bear from Peru. It doesn’t get more cosmopolitan than that! \nToday its high street is full of charming independent restaurants and boutiques\, but some of these pretty pastel-coloured facades hide haunting stories from the past. \nAnd\, as a bonus\, you might even spot a celebrity or two!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/duels-druids-and-dalmatians-a-stroll-in-charming-primrose-hill/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240331T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240331T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T200418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T200418Z
UID:10000055-1711893600-1711900800@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Slums and Squares and Rock n'Roll
DESCRIPTION:You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles’ area: Tottenham Court Rd tube\, Centrepoint\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Seven Dials…but you probably don’t know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting\, a medieval leper colony\, a failed posh residential district\, a notorious Victorian slum and the most unspoilt Georgian square in London. I would be delighted to help you explore all this (and see the street where Elton John worked as a tea boy and the Rolling Stones and Genesis recorded their earliest singles).
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/slums-and-squares-and-rock-nroll-3/2024-03-31/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240330T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240330T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240201T145048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240201T145048Z
UID:10000039-1711807200-1711814400@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Dorothy L Sayers Bllomsbury
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy L Sayers\, one of the “golden age” crime writers between the first and second world wars\, lived and worked in Holborn and Bloomsbury – as did her alter ego\, Harriet Vane and other familiar characters from the novels and short stories.\nSee places from which she took inspiration for her detective fiction; find out more about Sayers’ characters and about the woman who brought them all to life.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/dorothy-l-sayers-bllomsbury/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240329T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240329T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240201T145311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240201T145311Z
UID:10000040-1711710000-1711717200@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Dorothy L Sayers Bloomsbury
DESCRIPTION:Dorothy L Sayers\, one of the “golden age” crime writers between the first and second world wars\, lived and worked in Holborn and Bloomsbury – as did her alter ego\, Harriet Vane and other familiar characters from the novels and short stories.\nSee places from which she took inspiration for her detective fiction; find out more about Sayers’ characters and about the woman who brought them all to life.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/dorothy-l-sayers-bloomsbury-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240324T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240324T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T195427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195427Z
UID:10000045-1711278000-1711285200@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Hampstead: the village on the hill
DESCRIPTION:You probably know Hampstead as a very attractive area of very posh houses and very famous people. But why is it so lovely to walk around? \nIt’s a lot to do with a hill which prevented major roads and any railways being built: so uniquely in London it preserves a Georgian village streetscape. It also had many springs which supported a Tudor laundry business and then a fashionable Spa attraction in the 1700’s. \nAnd its healthy air and great views have always made it an attractive place for the wealthy\, and for artists\, writers and entertainers. So there are plenty of lovely houses to see: but this walk also explores buildings such as old workhouses and bath houses which remind us that plenty of “ordinary” people lived there too! \nBut above all its a beautiful old village on a hill: do come and explore it!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/hampstead-the-village-on-the-hill/2024-03-24/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240323T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240323T130000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240220T200418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T200418Z
UID:10000054-1711191600-1711198800@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Slums and Squares and Rock n'Roll
DESCRIPTION:You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles’ area: Tottenham Court Rd tube\, Centrepoint\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Seven Dials…but you probably don’t know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting\, a medieval leper colony\, a failed posh residential district\, a notorious Victorian slum and the most unspoilt Georgian square in London. I would be delighted to help you explore all this (and see the street where Elton John worked as a tea boy and the Rolling Stones and Genesis recorded their earliest singles).
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/slums-and-squares-and-rock-nroll-3/2024-03-23/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240317T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240317T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20231211T094919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T094919Z
UID:10000024-1710680400-1710687600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Historic Working-class Migrations: Irish\, Italian\, African\, Jewish
DESCRIPTION:People migrating to work in a city like London may begin settling together in ghettos\, but eventually they mix. Working-class migrants\, often maligned as ”economic migrants’\, do business\, make families\, invent objects\, bring pleasures\, help each other\, fight and die together. One old area of central London shows strong and sympathetic traces of the migrations of poorer folk from the late-18th to 20th centuries from near and far\, including from within England itself. The walk begins in the Fleet Ditch and works its way uphill through early Italian and Irish settlements in Saffron Hill into areas of more mixing\, taking note of Blacks from Africa via the West Indies and ending with Jewish migrations from numerous locations that made Hatton Garden’s Diamond Street.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/historic-working-class-migrations-irish-italian-african-jewish/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240316T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240316T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T013450
CREATED:20240119T162041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240119T162041Z
UID:10000033-1710597600-1710604800@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Dodging the Blitz:Bloomsbury Second World War Novels
DESCRIPTION: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 output. Pat Barker and Sarah Waters have used the period and location brilliantly in recent novels to emphasise the female experience of war. This walk highlights important events which formed the basis of these novels\, and looks at some of the main landmarks of the Blitz in Bloomsbury.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/dodging-the-blitzbloomsbury-second-world-war-novels/
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