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Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital chapel designed for children, Queens Square, Dr Mead, and a tour of the Enlightenment Gallery of British Museum, Dr Hans Sloane, Orrery Obsidian tablets of the magical Dr Dee and 18th Century collections of Captain Cook
An incurable case? You got one too? “Suffering” from it the way we are? An incurable case of curiosity. I mean. This walk won’t cure it – it’s not something you want cured of course – but it will palliate it. Palliate it because where else – even in London – will you “meet” – in two hours (I mean if you think about it it’s almost like a phantasmagoria/a what you guys smoking on that walk) – where else will you meet phantom limbs, the fattest man in England, arsenic in that lock of George III’s hair, virtual autopsies of Inca and Egyptian mummies, Siamese twins, Napoleon’s toothbrush, glass models of Ebola viruses. I mean, WHOA! Katy. Bar. The. Door. Some Wellcome! And it’s not just the Wellcome Collection on this walk. This neighbourhood’s Medical London at its most scintillating. A medicine chest of old specialist hospitals. Let alone the British Museum. The School of Tropical Medicine. Dr. Sloane. Resurrectionists. More cadavers than you can shake a femur at. Well, you get the idea. And – it doesn’t get any better than this – we’re making the rounds through this medical history-saturated neighbourhood with a physician. A public health physician. May I introduce Doctor Barry? You’ll be in his care this afternoon.
There is no need to book to go on the Medicine Man – Medical Bloomsbury & the Wellcome Collection Tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information you need. Thank you to David from London Walks for the tour description.
The V&A has an amazing set of Asian galleries. The Chinese collection is wide ranging extending from ancient bronzes to exquisite Qing jade carvings. Other items include Ming porcelain from Jingdezhen and incised lacquer work. The New Japanese Gallery has extensive collections of netsuke –delightful carvings designed as toggles for formal wear. Also there is an extensive range of Inro’s for carrying seals and medicines. Japanese swords are among the best in the world used by the Samurai.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
Itinerary
A ravishing collection of world class Impressionist paintings ranging from Monet’s landscapes and Renoirs portraits. Degas sculptures and Gauguins early works and later Tahitian phase. The highlight is Manet’s greatest and last masterpiece The ‘Bar at the Follies Bergere’ Also works by Kandinsky Leger and Derain round off this fantastic collection.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
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Buddhism spread from India where Siddharta Gautama founded the religion in the 6th century BC. It arrived in China via the Silk Route to China where it took root in the 6th century AD. We will see superb sculpture from Gandhara and see how the images of the Buddha changed over the centuries in style in China Japan and South East Asia.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
Itinerary
Following the death of Mohammed in the 7th Century, Islam spread rapidly across the east Asia and North Africa establishing a new form of art. We will see the oldest dated carpet in the world – the exquisite five hundred year old Ardabil (Persian) carpet made up of 29 million knots. See how burnished metal work of the Mamluks in old Cairo evolved and how lustre ceramics evolved in the Abbasid caliphate. As the human figure was frowned on in Islamic teachings we will see how in its place designs based on nature and geometry spread across the Islamic world. It even spread to Moorish Spain where we have exquisite carved ivory caskets from the Umayyad dynasty.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
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The V&A houses one of the greatest collection of casts of the Renaissance and Roman (including the complete Trajan’s column !). Original sculptures by Cibber, Stone are shown alongside Canova and Rodin. The only Bernini sculpture (Neptune and Triton) outside Italy makes this a first rate collection showing the evolution of sculpture between 16-20th centuries.
There is no need to book for this guided tour. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
The Georgian Fitzroy Square is home to the Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw. South American liberators rub shoulders with Marie Stopes. The raffish element of the artists sucha s Augustus John give Fitzrovia its’ edge. The Bride of Frankenstein appears and also the infamous Dr Crippen.
There is no need to book for the Doctor’s London Plague, Quacks and Leeches. This walk is offered as part of London Walks. You can check their website for times and dates by clicking here. Or email Barry and he will reply with the information.
Following the tragic death of Alexander Livenenko in 2006 led to an investigation into the murky world of international espionage, using polonium 210 (a rare lethal nuclear material) in heart of London the 21st century. We will explore the evidence of the inquiry as we weave through the streets of Mayfair where the spies left their trail of radiation in offices and nightclubs, ending up in Grosvenor Square where the nefarious deed was done.