R is for Roaring Twenties Through Writers' Eyes - Walking Tour

"I don't know what London's coming to - the higher the buildings the lower the morals." - Noël Coward

"...there flickers, there gibbers and twitches – what? Restlessness, distraction, refusal to think." — Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay (1923)

Join us on a walking tour led by Vivienne Lloyd of Footprints of London tours, as we explore the world of jazz, cocktails, fast cars and the Bright Young Things through the eyes of Evelyn Waugh, Noel Coward, Agatha Christie, Sayers, Huxley, Woolf and others.

• A walk around Soho, Piccadilly and Mayfair to locations featured in 1920s fiction, hearing the tales of nightclub raids, jazz music and modernist design, cocktails and cocaine and changing social mores in London's traumatised high society after WW1.
• Amid the sensationalised hedonism, The Bright Young Things and their contemporaries revealed the nihilism and fear of the interwar period, and the resulting desire to upend the rules.
• The resulting shift in writing styles, in both form and content, led to a new realism and grittiness popular with the 1920s public - and still gripping today.

NB This tour is open to the public, it is not being run specifically for us.

Read more about the tour here.
Read more about the Bright Young Things and post-war nihilism here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview2

MEET DETAILS:

FROM 1.15pm: MEET AT OREE CAFE (Optional)
Address: 44 Wellington St, Covent Garden, WC2B 5JD
I'll try to grab a table outside.

FROM 1.50pm: GATHER OUTSIDE TIFFANY'S OPPOSITE COVENT GARDEN TUBE STATION
Address: 13 James St, London WC2E 8BT

2pm-4pm: WALKING TOUR
This tour is run by an independent guide and is open to the public (i.e. the guide is not running this tour specifically for us), so you must arrive on time for the tour to join it.
I have not connection to the guide, so won't be able to liaise on your behalf if you're running late, unfortunately!

4pm-Late: PUB SOCIAL (optional)
The tour finishes in Shepherd's Market, Mayfair. Depending on interest, we'll head to a nearby pub.

TICKETS:
This is a tour run by an independent guide. Tickets cost £17.50. You will need to purchase your own ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour-roaring-twenties-through-writers-eyes-tickets-1992279921877

EVENT WHATSAPP GROUP:
There will be LoMAZ event WhatsApp group to help you find us, however as this is an external walking tour that is for the public, not specifically for LoMAZ, you must arrive on time to attend. The link will be posted in the Event Comments 48 hours before the event, for those on the confirmed going list.
NB Joining this WhatsApp group will make your phone number visible to other members in the group.

PLEASE READ:
If you can no longer attend, please change your RSVP as soon as possible, otherwise you will be marked as a 'no show'. Please see the About Us section for more information about the group and how it works.

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