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London Dark Pages - Literary London After Dark

By Compleat Walks
Free cancellation available
Price is P 2,791 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

This is a unique walk, that reveals London’s dark history. We always run this walk at night time so that we capture the perfect atmosphere for the stories we will tell.

Activity location

  • Inns of Court
    • Fleet Street
    • London, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Temple Station
    • Temple Station Temple Place
    • WC2R 2PH, London, England, United Kingdom

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London Dark Pages - Literary London After Dark
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 18:00
Price details
P 2,791.15 x 1 AdultP 2,791.15
Total
Price is P 2,791.15
Until Tue, Mar 17

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    A professional guide who created this walk
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Tips

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Inns of Court

  • 15m
• Gothic architecture influencing dark Victorian literature • Lawyers, secrecy, power & punishment in literature • Dickens’s obsession with law and injustice.

Fleet Street

  • 15m
• Victorian newspapers & penny dreadfuls • Birthplace of sensational crime stories • Sweeney Todd legend (fiction + fear culture)

Holborn

  • 20m
• Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary • Writers living in poverty, obsession, madness • The isolation of genius Charles Dickens • Workhouses, child labour, prisons and how it was used in Oliver Twist, Bleak House

Bloomsbury

  • 15m
• Victorian fascination with death & séances • Influence on Bram Stoker & gothic fiction • Fear of the unknown in industrial London

The British Museum

  • 10m
Walk by the museum Obsession with the past, curses, stolen artefacts • Gothic fiction’s fear of ancient knowledge • Writers inspired by history are turning it “dark”

Fitzrovia

  • 15m
• Oscar Wilde • Genius, queerness, censorship • Public downfall & literary punishment • The dark cost of truth and beauty

Location

Activity location

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    Inns of Court
    • Fleet Street
    • London, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Temple Station
    • Temple Station Temple Place
    • WC2R 2PH, London, England, United Kingdom

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