Join actors, musicians and Dr Matthew Green for an immersive, critically acclaimed tour of Fleet Street from its murky medieval beginnings to its 20th-century heyday and destruction.
Ghosts of Fleet Street dramatises England’s fierce struggle for press freedom in the days of bloodthirsty government censors, its spectacular arrival in the days of Daniel Defoe and Dr Johnson, and its exploitation by media tycoons in the 20th century.
This shocking tale of suppression, liberation, and exploitation is played out on Fleet Street, where printing was transformed from a medieval mystery into a mind-moulding instrument of mass communication, sweeping away a dark medieval world, ushering England from the gorge of ignorance into an age of knowledge and enlightenment (then back again with the launch of the Daily Mail in 1896).
Topical, in light of the Leveson Enquiry, and based on original PhD research, Ghosts has been favourably reviewed by the Guardian and featured by the BBC, Telegraph, and Monocle Magazine. See what all the fuss is about on our website here.
The tour lasts 1hr 45 mins; costs £12.50 + booking fee; beginning at Stationers’ Hall Court and finishing overlooking the Thames; booking in advance via Eventbrite: http://zehawkershacksandwhores.eventbrite.com/
