Walking Tour: Diverse London: Bloomsbury in the 1920s

Sat Nov 16 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm UTC+00:00

Russell Square Station | London

Oonagh Gay, Footprints of London
Publisher/HostOonagh Gay, Footprints of London
Walking Tour: Diverse London: Bloomsbury in the 1920s
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1920s Bloomsbury attracted many new thinkers who promised a different future after World War One
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Discover visionary cultural and political thinkers of the 1920s in East Bloomsbury, such as Winifred Holtby, Dorothy L Sayers and the economist Eileen Power. We associate Bloomsbury women with Virginia Woolf, but there were many other influencers who came here, attracted by low rents, and cultural connectivity. Women in particular could live here independently, and develop new ideas for society following the Greet War. Annie Besant took up the cause of Indian independence. Cultural life in London became much more diverse with the addition of women's voices, and professions such as the law became open to them for the first time. See where the first woman barrister to prosecute a M**der trial began her career; Helena Normanton has only recently been recognised with an English Heritage plaque. The walk ends near Holborn station


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Russell Square Station, Bernard St, London, United Kingdom

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GBP 10.00 to GBP 15.00

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