Keats House 100: From Poet’s Life to ‘Living Memorial’
- drjohnsonshouse
- Jul 12
- 2 min read
Lunchtime Lectures - Dr Johnson's House Series
Tuesday 26 August
12.30pm - 1.30pm
£3.96 (booking required)
Book now for this instalment of our monthly lunchtime lectures, part of an annual programme of talks held at Dr Johnson's House, kindly sponsored by The Fleet Street Quarter BID.
Discover how a Hampstead home inspired John Keats, and was later saved to become a museum to his creative genius.
John Keats lived at Wentworth Place, Hampstead for less than two years but during that time wrote most of the work for which he is now remembered and loved. After all connection between Keats and the house was forgotten, his poetry and life was re-discovered by later artists, eventually leading to the house being purchased as a ‘museum and living memorial’ celebrating his life and works.
Join Keats House curator, Rob Shakespeare, to discover the fascinating story of why and how Keats House became a museum one hundred years ago.
Rob Shakespeare Rob Shakespear is responsible for heritage across the City of London Corporation’s Natural Environments division, which includes iconic spaces such as Hampstead Heath, Highgate Wood, Epping Forest and Keats House. A former teacher, Rob joined the City Corporation in 2018 and has led on projects such as Keats200, the 150th anniversary celebrations of Hampstead Heath and West Ham Park being saved for the public and, more recently, the ‘Firing London’s Imagination’ in Highgate Wood, ‘Culturally Speaking’ with Doctor Johnson’s House, and Keats House 100 projects.
Your ticket includes the opportunity to look around Dr Johnson's House as well as a complimentary lunch from local business Dilieto on Fleet Street.
Lunch will be served at this event: please let us know 48 hours in advance, via an Eventbrite message, if you have any specific dietary requirements or have any allergies.
