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.

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Iain Sinclair talks about the Soho photographer John Deakin

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0 LONDON: The Wheatsheaf Pub
P Wednesday 16th October, 2024
N Door time: 6:30pm, Start time: 7:00pm
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Life with David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars

Suzi Ronson in conversation with Travis Elborough.

0 LONDON: The Wheatsheaf Pub
P Wednesday 20th November, 2024
N Door time: 6:30pm, Start time: 7:00pm
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Denmark Street: the Traditional Heart of the London Music Business

Peter Watts in conversation with Max Décharné


0 LONDON: The Wheatsheaf Pub
P Thursday 5th December, 2024
N Door time: 6:30pm, Start time: 7:00pm
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Nick Drake and the Late 1960s Folk Scene

Richard Morton Jack and James Wilson in conversation with Cathi Unsworth.

0 LONDON: The Wheatsheaf Pub
P Wednesday 15th January, 2025
N Door time: 6:30pm, Start time: 7:00pm
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