The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles is concerned with Gothic representations of London in the late nineteenth-century. Establishing that a modern Gothic literary mode relocates the traditional rural Gothic to the late nineteenth-century metropolis, this volume explores the cultural history of London in the nineteenth century. The subsequent discussion of the Gothic fictions of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells offers new perspectives from which to assess the impact of contemporary perceptions of London as a Gothicized space on the works of these novelists.

The Great Fire of London: In that Apocalyptic Year, 1666

Untold numbers perished; great buildings and ancient districts disappeared; knowledge acquired and stored over centuries was lost forever. The Great Fire of London accomplished what the Spanish Armada and the plague had failed to do–it reduced the world's most majestic city to utter ruin.

 The Great Fire of London recreates this cataclysmic event through precisely etched dramas drawn from firsthand accounts of those who lived through the all-consuming blaze.

Unabridged audiobook

Art - BBC Radio Play

A three way meditation on taste, style and fraternity erupts when Serge pays 300,000 Euros for a canvas painted white.

In the late 1990s this play was a big success in London and New York.  But the stage never managed to assemble a cast like Radio 3's ...

Broadcast May 7, 2000

Peter Pan Comes to London: Penguin Kids level 1

Wendy, John, and Michael live in London. They live in a big house. Peter Pan and Tinker Bell live in Neverland. They go to London and fly in to the house. Who is Peter Pan? Who is Tinker Bell? And what is Neverland?Re-told by: Nicola Schofield

Word count: 119 words

Re-told by: Nicola Schofield

Audio and Teacher's Factsheet

Peter Pan Comes to London: Penguin Kids level 1

Wendy, John, and Michael live in London. They live in a big house. Peter Pan and Tinker Bell live in Neverland. They go to London and fly in to the house. Who is Peter Pan? Who is Tinker Bell? And what is Neverland?

Audio and Teacher's Factsheet

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