No expiration date
Easy refund
Free exchange
Easy booking
London Dark Pages - Literary London After Dark
London, England, United Kingdom
$94.28
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
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.
—
London Dark Pages - Literary London After Dark
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 2 hours
- A professional guide who created this walk
- Tips
Meeting point
We meet just outside the station at the Victoria embankment entrance
Return details
-
Inns of Court• Gothic architecture influencing dark Victorian literature • Lawyers, secrecy, power & punishment in literature • Dickens’s obsession with law and injustice.
-
Fleet Street• Victorian newspapers & penny dreadfuls • Birthplace of sensational crime stories • Sweeney Todd legend (fiction + fear culture)
-
Holborn• 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• Victorian fascination with death & séances • Influence on Bram Stoker & gothic fiction • Fear of the unknown in industrial London
-
The British MuseumWalk 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• Oscar Wilde • Genius, queerness, censorship • Public downfall & literary punishment • The dark cost of truth and beauty
How it works?
01
—
You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
—
We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
—
Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!
London Dark Pages - Literary London After Dark
London, England, United Kingdom
$94.28
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
—
You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
—
We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
—
Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!