Friday 5th December, 12:30-14:00, outside Team London Bridge, 8 Holyrood Street, SE1 2EL
Our festive traditions are still shaped by Dickensian images of snowy landscapes and cheery, red-cheeked, children – not to mention the wealthy in their finery. But Charles Dickens was a social campaigner, determined to spotlight the inequalities of life in the wealthiest city on earth.
Guided by the 1843 novella ‘A Christmas carol’, Mr Londoner explores the Victorian ‘smelly industries’ around London Bridge. He considers the power of Dickens’s message. And he discovers how a sooty and toxic industrial past might just point the way to a brighter and greener future.
Meeting point: Outside Team London Bridge, 8 Holyrood Street, SE1 2EL