The Sohemian Society

Founded in 2003, the London-based Sohemian Society began by staging talks, Q-and-As, guided walks, slide-shows, film screenings, and even small-scale theatrical productions, all of which were connected to Soho's bohemian past. It soon widened its focus, hosting events about everything from Italian Futurist art to the evolution of English slang.

Previous speakers at the Sohemian Society include the musician and Soho character, George Melly; Jack Kerouac's friend and travelling companion, Carolyn Cassidy; Allan Sillitoe, author of “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”; the wartime diarist Joan Wyndham; the “Carry On” actress and Establishment Club regular Fenella Fielding; the 1960s music producer Joe Boyd; the memoirist and former Home Secretary Alan Johnson; the historian Virginia Nicolson; the writer and film-maker Jonathan Meades; John Preston, author of “A Very English Scandal” and “The Dig”; the memoirist and Beatles' associate Barry Miles; the actors Murray Melvin and Dudley Sutton; the writer Iain Sinclair; the style commentator Peter York; the novelist Jake Arnott; the couturier and Hollywood costume designer Morton Myles; and the journalist Virginia Ironside, who was among that select group for whom the Swinging Sixties really swung.


Photos above text: courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Modernist Soho and Mayfair: Walking in Ian Nairn's footsteps

A guided walk, hosted by Travis Elborough (lasts approx. 90-minutes)

0 LONDON: Outside the Blue Posts pub
P Sunday 6th July, 2025
N Door time: 2:20pm, Start time: 2:30pm
. 16 and over
C Walking Tour

Secret Bloomsbury

A guided walk hosted by Ross MacFarlane (lasts approx. 90 minutes)

0 LONDON: Outside Holborn Underground Station
P Sunday 20th July, 2025
N Door time: 2:20pm, Start time: 2:30pm
. 16 and over
C Walking Tour

Radical London

A guided walk, hosted by Brian Denny (lasts approx. 120-minutes)

0 LONDON: Meet outside the Fitzroy Tavern
P Sunday 27th July, 2025
N Door time: 2:20pm, Start time: 2:30pm
. 16 and over
C Walking Tour

The Weird, the Gothic and the Supernatural: Arthur Machen’s London

A guided walk, hosted by James Machin (lasts approx. 90-minutes)

0 LONDON: Outside the Euston Road side of the circular structure in front of King’s Cross Station
P Sunday 3rd August, 2025
N Door time: 2:20pm, Start time: 2:30pm
. 16 and over
C Walking Tour

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