Two of London’s most passionate historians uncover lost chapters and characters from the city’s story: Salon for the City welcomes Vic Keegan and Matt Brown
Doors: 7pm.
We have all been lost in London at some time or another, and time itself is continually losing London. Join us in a recollection of some of what has disappeared along the way.
Vic Keegan, pre-eminent chronicler of the forgotten city, uncovers a handpicked selection of the lesser-known cultural gems the capital has bulldozed, buried, or simply mislaid—sometimes by neglect or conflict, but usually in the name of progress. Based on his acclaimed Lost London series, Vic reveals how the past still lingers in cracks and corners—if we know where to look.
Meanwhile, Matt Brown , generally accepted to be the most London-obsessed man in the universe, remembers some of the extraordinary Londoners that history does not -from scientists and rebels to artists and activists. With his ever-watchful eye for the unusual , curious and overlooked, Matt reanimates some ghosts of the lost city—suggesting that the people lacking plaques deserve their moment in the light too.
Vic Keegan is a journalist, poet and urban historian. A former columnist and editor at The Guardian, he is the author of Vic Keegan’s Lost London, a passionate and poetic excavation of the capital’s buried past.
Matt Brown is the editor at large of Londonist and author of numerous books about science, culture and the city, including Everything You Know About London is Wrong. A curious chronicler of overlooked stories, Matt is one of London’s most engaging public historians and a maker of maps.