Excited to see my article about John Hollingshead, street child turned theatre manager from Hoxton, and family friends the Lambs in the Charles and Mary Lamb Journal. The links between them are fascinating and often unexpected. #CharlesLambSociety #JohnHollingshead #Hoxton #NineteenthCenturyLondon

RIP Jack Shepherd, who wrote the great play ‘In Lambeth’, an imagined conversation between Thomas Paine, Catherine and William Blake, played in the TV version by our President, Mark Rylance www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Jack Shepherd obituary

Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe

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Great event at the Lambeth Archives with the British Music Hall Society. Always excited to see anything on The Grecian Saloon in Shoreditch. #BritishMusicHallSociety #LambethArchives

‘Perhaps the last man in England who had a personal recollection of Charles Lamb, and who had known Mary Lamb intimately’: John Hollingshead and the Lambs Honoured to be giving a talk to the Charles & Mary Lamb Society on 24 May www.eventbrite.com/e/john-holli...

John Hollingshead and the Lambs: Lamb Society Lecture by Dr Eilidh Innes

‘Perhaps the last man in England who had a personal recollection of Charles Lamb, and who had known Mary Lamb intimately’

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Couldn’t find the star for the top of my Xmas tree so put the late great Liberace, who said he did classical music with the boring parts taken out, up there instead. John Hollingshead of the Gaiety Theatre would have approved. #liberace #gaietytheatre

Walking in 2 centuries as Prof Gretchen Gerzina put it so eloquently, in Hoxton, London, birthplace of John Hollingshead, manager of the lost Gaiety Theatre in the Strand #london