Bohemian Fitzrovia

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A whistle-stop tour of louche locations in the area formerly known as the Latin Quarter. You will be introduced to some of the eccentric and esoteric artists, writers, activists and satanists who have lived and worked here. Seduce servicemen with Nina Hamnett and Betty May, pop over to the BBC with Dylan Thomas and Julian Maclaren-Ross, upset people with James McNeil Whistler and Walter Sickert, spin a yarn with Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw.


Artist and writer Clive Jennings has lived in Fitzrovia for around thirty years. He is Arts Editor of both the “Fitzrovia News” and the “Soho Clarion”. Clive studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and St Martins School of Art. He had a career in fashion and and as an art-dealer, print publisher and curator, during which he ran galleries in Mayfair, Fitzrovia and Chelsea. He organised the Contemporary Print Show at the Barbican and founded the National Print Gallery. Clive has a studio in Covent Garden – and his nom de guerre is “Fitzrovia Flaneur”.