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.

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)

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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

William Burroughs: An Alien in London

A guided walk hosted by Antony Clayton, William Redwood and Jim Pennington (lasts approx. 90 minutes)

0 LONDON: Meet outside Westminster Reference Library
P Sunday 10th August, 2025
N Door time: 2:20pm, Start time: 2:30pm
. 16 and over
C Walking Tour

Gangland Soho

A guided walk hosted by Aidan McManus (lasts approx. 2 hours)

0 LONDON: Meet outside Goodge Street Underground Station
P Sunday 17th August, 2025
N Door time: 2:20pm, Start time: 2:30pm
. 16 and over
C Walking Tour

London, 1939-45

Jerry White in conversation with Travis Elborough

0 LONDON: The upstairs function room at the Horse & Groom pub (Great Portland Street)
P Wednesday 20th August, 2025
N Door time: 6:15pm, Start time: 7:00pm
. 16 and over
C Other

Spectres of Spitalfields

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

0 LONDON: Meet in front of Christ Church Spitalfields
P Sunday 24th August, 2025
N Door time: 2:20pm, Start time: 2:30pm
. 16 and over
C Walking Tour

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