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London Dark Pages - Literary London After Dark
Temple
About
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.
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
A professional guide who created this walk
Tips
Meeting Points
Departure
Temple Station
We meet just outside the station at the Victoria embankment entrance
Return
Fitzroy Square
Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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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.
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
A professional guide who created this walk
Tips
Meeting Points
Departure
Temple Station
We meet just outside the station at the Victoria embankment entrance
Return
Fitzroy Square
Itinerary
1
Inns of Court
• Gothic architecture influencing dark Victorian literature
• Lawyers, secrecy, power & punishment in literature
• Dickens’s obsession with law and injustice.
15 minutes
2
Fleet Street
• Victorian newspapers & penny dreadfuls
• Birthplace of sensational crime stories
• Sweeney Todd legend (fiction + fear culture)
15 minutes
3
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
20 minutes
4
Bloomsbury
• Victorian fascination with death & séances
• Influence on Bram Stoker & gothic fiction
• Fear of the unknown in industrial London
15 minutes
5
The British Museum
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”
10 minutes
6
Fitzrovia
• Oscar Wilde
• Genius, queerness, censorship
• Public downfall & literary punishment
• The dark cost of truth and beauty
