Dutch Walk Through Bloomsbury and King's Cross

The walk will start at UCL, home to the oldest Department of Dutch in the Anglophone world (founded in 1919) and host of one of the largest Dutch libraries in the country. We will walk past Gerard Reve’s former living place, when he unsuccessfully tried to establish himself on the English market in the 1950s, the Elizabeth Anderson Gallery with its connections to Dutch and British feminism, the Eurostar terminal, London’s gateway to the Low Countries, and the many beautiful Dutch and Flemish exhibits of the British Library, before ending the walk in the Dutch East India Company pub in King’s Cross, reflecting on the nature of colonialism and its afterlife. This walk is just one of a set of curated Dutch and Flemish walks through London, generously supported by a UCL Beacon for Public Engagement Award and the Dutch and Flemish diplomatic representations in London. Podcast by Christine Sas (UCL), Marja Kingma (British Library) and Ulrich Tiedau (UCL). Take a look at the Inspiring Minds website, for new and returning arts and humanities students, and find the Google Map of this walk: https://bit.ly/306yNBL.