Blake's
Jerusalem
Dr Maryanne Grant-Traylen,
an authority on William Blake looks at the real meaning of Blake's
Jerusalem.
Inter
War Hampstead
There was a great upsurge
of creative activity in the area in the 1920,s and 30’s further
fuelled by the arrival in the 1930’s of refugee artists fleeing
European fascism. We look at the modernist architecture dotted around
the area and also touch on the lives of the artists and writers of
the period: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Herbert
Read, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, D.H. Lawrence and others.
Fitzrovia, "a region of
the mind".
The haunt of artists,
actors and writers from the 18th century to the1950’s, we examine
this English Bohemia and the characters who peopled it over the last
200 years. From Mrs. Siddons to Hylda Baker, Fanny Burney to Dylan
Thomas, John Linnell to Nina Hamnett.
Coleridge
at Highgate
In
1816 Coleridge came to tea with a Dr Gillman in Highgate and stayed
for 18 years. The area is rich with reminders of his life here under
the auspices of Gillman and his family. From the summit of Highgate
overlooking Nightingale Valley, landscape of Kubla Khan itself, Coleridge
was given a new lease of life. And it was from here, his final resting
place, that he witnessed the funeral procession of Lord Byron.
The
Romantics of Hampstead
The
heights of Hampstead have always attracted writers and artists but
none more so than those of the Romantic movement. We follow in the
footsteps of Keats, William Blake and others. From The Flask to The
Old Bull & Bush.
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