In the Footsteps of Exiles: Bloomsbury History Walk In-Person
By walking in the footsteps of exiles we read between the lines of streets and squares, and encounter their stories more immediately. Part of the Being Human Festival 2025, this walk guides participants around the Bloomsbury they may think they know – that of Virginia Woolf – and reveals layers of other histories, existing like geological strata under our feet. We pause to pay attention to signs of past lives – blue plaques commemorating only some – and reveal the stories of refugees who came to Bloomsbury through the twentieth century.
- Date:
- Thursday, November 13, 2025
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Time Zone:
- UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)
- Location:
- Seng Tee Lee
This walk will take place outside, in the streets around University of London (or in the Seng Tee Lee room in Senate House Library in case of inclement weather).
Please meet in the Reception Hall of Senate House.
Developed by Senate House Library, the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies and the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, with the kind assistance of the Wiener Holocaust Library and Quakers in Britain.
This event is part of Being Human Festival, the UK's national festival of the humanities, taking place 6 - 15 November 2025. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see Being Human Festival.