Characters of FitzroviaBetween Oxford Street and Euston Road, bordered by Portland Place, Gower Street and Tottenham Court Road, lies a mysteriously evocative area, close to London's heart, known as Fitzrovia. For over 400 years this is where the bohemian life of London has flourished. Fitzrovia is a strange mix with an extraordinary history, one that also holds up a mirror to the rest of the city. For the avant garde, for artists and artisan, Fitzrovia has been a home, the creative hub, full of studios, craftshops and trysting places. Of sex, murder and mayhem, Fitzrovia has had more than its fair share. Alongside grandeur and elegance, exiles and emigres occupied shabby tenements and introduced new styles of cafe and restaurant. Revolutionaries and radicals gathered here. Spivs and spies, princes and prostitutes all jostled in its streets. Medical professionals mingled in institutions set up by free-thinkers, with intellectuals and inventors. Radio and television programmes from Fitzrovia, broadcast to the world, shaped the culture of an empire and a nation. Independent publishing clusters in Fitzrovia, near the legendary pubs where writers and poets met and drank in the 1940s and 50s. From bawdy house |
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... imprisoned by the English authorities . While exiled in London he helped organise several Italian uprisings ( one plan was to invade the Papal States in balloons ) for which he was again sentenced to death in his absence . In 1848 he ...
... imprisoned by the English authorities . While exiled in London he helped organise several Italian uprisings ( one plan was to invade the Papal States in balloons ) for which he was again sentenced to death in his absence . In 1848 he ...
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... imprisoned for murdering his father . I had a feeling of hopelessness , grief , and a sense of emptiness , and even ... imprisonment , Hume had to be restrained with tear gas . He was released in 1976 and deported to Britain , where he ...
... imprisoned for murdering his father . I had a feeling of hopelessness , grief , and a sense of emptiness , and even ... imprisonment , Hume had to be restrained with tear gas . He was released in 1976 and deported to Britain , where he ...
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... imprisonment each , for two separate murders . The middlemen , Laurel and Hardy , both received prison sentences ... imprisoned for life . I vowed I would wait and get revenge . Fourteen years later , I was at a drinking party with ...
... imprisonment each , for two separate murders . The middlemen , Laurel and Hardy , both received prison sentences ... imprisoned for life . I vowed I would wait and get revenge . Fourteen years later , I was at a drinking party with ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Rabblerousers Radicals and Revolutionaries 2 Royalty and Gentry | 2 |
Murderers and Manslaughterers | 3 |
Copyright | |
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