Sometimes, book promo can actually be fun! Case in point: during my recent trip to London, I spent two days visiting some of the sites featured in Lightborne, from St. Helen’s Bishopsgate to Seething Lane, location of the Privy Court (Elizabethan MI5); from the Rose Playhouse to Deptford Strand, and Kit Marlowe’s final resting place.
I put it all together into two short videos which I’m posting below for the non-Instagrammers and -TikTokkers among us (seriously, all my respect).
There’s a slight misconception that all of medieval and early modern London has been lost, what with the fire of 1666, the Blitz, etc. In fact, a number of buildings survive, along with traces of the old neighbourhoods preserved in names, the layout of streets, even sometimes quite literally in basements. Please join me as I take you on a tour of some of these places, and offer a few brief insights into their connection to Christopher Marlowe’s story…
- Featured in Part 1:
- Bankside
- The Rose Playhouse
- The French Huguenot Quarter/ Spitalfields
- Bishopsgate/ St. Helen’s Church
- Featured in Part 2:
- London Wall (Tower Hill)
- Bishopsgate
- Seething Lane (former site of the Privy Court)
- St. Olave’s Church
- The Golden Hind
- Tower of London
- Southwark Cathedral (St. Mary Overy’s)
- Deptford Watergate
- St. Nicholas’s Church Deptford
- Christopher Marlowe Memorial (St. Nicholas’s Churchyard)
HESSE PHILLIPS 