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Discover why Victoria Park is loved by millions of its visitors every year and named ‘The Nation’s Favourite Park’ (2015/16) as local author and cultural commentator Travis Elborough takes you on a stroll to discover the park’s secret stories and hidden history. Travis recent book, A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution, a timely and loving exploration of green space was published in June 2016 to great critical acclaim.

Spaces are limited – to book a place, please contact 0207 364 7968 or email victoriapark@towerhamlets.gov.uk
http://www.towerhamletsarts.org.uk/?guide=events&cat=32&cid=61969

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https://www.bl.uk/events/london-lines-mapping-the-metropolis

I appeared on the Backlisted Podcast discussing the life and work of Derek Raymond (aka Robin Cook) and in particular The State of Denmark, his dystopian vision of England published in 1970.

Listen here:

“Wittily written and wide-ranging, Travis Elborough’s A Walk in the Park, the life and times of a people’s institution (£18.99, Jonathan Cape) restores this review to the realm of dreams. Starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh, Elborough veers into an hallucinatory visit to Le Petit Trianon and Marie-Antoinette, before returning to England via Charles II’s fantasy of a Le Notre garden of his own. It takes more than a century’s worth of royal, aristocratic and then commercial pleasure gardens to arrive at the Victorian era, with its bold, imaginative creation of public parks. Idealistic and moralistic from the outset, these parks face a very uncertain future. This book underlines how precious, and vulnerable, they are.”

Online here: http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/property/the_best_books_for_gardeners_in_2016_1_4818463

I am appearing at the Stanfords Travel Writers Festival at Olympia on 2 February 2017.

http://www.destinationsshow.com/london/speaker/travis-elborough-author-acclaimed-pop-cultural-historian

“Continuing our series of Sunday afternoon talks in the magnificent drawing room of Clissold House, we are pleased to announce the third of three talks for 2016.

Doors open 1.30pm. Ticket price includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.

Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there – and that they always will. In fact, the roots of even the most humble neighbourhood park lie in age-old battles over land and liberty. From their medieval life as private royal hunting grounds and private estates to their modern incarnation as public spaces teeming with activity, as Clissold Park is today, acclaimed author Travis Elborough traces their extraordinary history in an illustrated talk based on his new book, A Walk in the Park.

Elborough is a Stoke Newington resident and Clissold Park user; he was also the Chisenhale Gallery Victoria Park Residency artist for 2014-15.”

Link for tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-walk-in-park-an-illustrated-talk-by-travis-elborough-tickets-28498460663?aff=es2

picture @BloomsburyInst