Bibliophile Walk in St James's and Tea for Four at the Athenaeum Club

Supporting The Stationers' Charities

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Ended:June 30th 2023, 9:00pm EDT

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£275($345 USD)

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Bibliophile walk in St James's and tea for 4 people at the Athenaeum Club

Come for a walking tour in St James's, led by Anthony Davis MA FSA of Booksteps London Walks (www.Booksteps.co.uk). Anthony is a fellow-Stationer who is a distinguished bibliographer and architectural historian as well as a qualified guide who gives walking tours in London for people who love books. You will hear about some of the colourful literary figures who have frequented St James's and the history of this fashionable area. See among other places where Samuel Pepys set his wig alight, where Doctor Johnson slept rough and the house of the first sexologist. You will finish at the Athenaeum Club where Anthony will treat the successful bidder to tea for up to four people.

The walk will last about an hour and will take place at a mutually agreed time. Please note that you will need to be reasonably active physically, and that the club has a dress code and minimum age of 14 years old. Further details to be provided in due course.

Donated by Freeman Anthony Davis

The Cause

The Stationers' Charities

The Stationers’ Foundation is the education charity of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, the City of London Livery Company for the communication and content industries.

At primary school level, with a focus on literacy, we fund four Saturday Schools in greater London run by Civitas. At secondary school level, we support Stationers’ Crown Woods Academy in SE London, which specialises in digital media. We also sponsor the annual SHINE Schools Media Awards, where students from across the country win awards for their school magazines and websites. At further and higher education level, we support a number of apprenticeship initiatives in the media industry and provide postgraduate bursaries for students requiring financial assistance on programmes leading to careers in our industries. We also support wounded and sick ex-service men and women through ‘Bound by Veterans’.

Our aim is to make a difference to the lives of disadvantaged young people, whilst connecting them to the communications and content industries and to the work of our Livery Company.

The Stationers’ Hall Charity enables the preservation, maintenance and enhancement of Stationers’ Hall, an historic scheduled ancient monument and Grade 1 listed building. It also enables the advancement of education and learning, including but not limited to education in relation to the Hall, library, and archive of the Stationers' Company, primarily by the provision of public access.

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Item #L11748

Participant must be at least 14 years or older.
Total number of people: 4.
Experience may not be resold or re-auctioned.
Cannot be transferred.
To be scheduled at a mutually agreeable date.

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