Secrets and Glamour
7.00pm Thursday 27th August 2020
In the latest of our 'Streets of London' series, historians BEATRICE BEHLEN and TINA BAXTER explore the secret life of two of the capital's squares most associated with fashion, glamour and style
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Admission: £4.50 by Reservation only HERE
The Salon will be held online via the Zoom platform. Details of how to join will be emailed you before the event.
Using fragments of ephemera such as street directories and insurance maps, photographs, advertisements, snippets from biographies and surviving garments Beatrice will provide a unique insight into the era, life and interrelations between this once fashionable locale and its myriad range of occupants.
SOHO SQUARE remains one of the West End's best known, well loved - and most trafficked locations. Yet few of the late night revellers, tourists and workers who sit in its garden are aware of its wonderful past and the scandalous life of one of its most glamourous residents Theresa Cornelys.
Historian and city guide TINA BAXTER will take us on whistle stop tour of the square’s history and then behind the doors of the vanished Carlisle House to evoke the spirit of Madam Cornelys’ masked balls and exotic ‘entertainments’..
-----------------------------------------------------------BEATRICE BEHLEN studied fashion design in Germany before moving to London in 1989. Following a postgraduate course in the History of Dress at the Courtauld Institute, she worked as curatorial assistant at Kensington Palace. In late 2007 she became Senior Curator of Fashion & Decorative Arts at the Museum of London. Her main interest is how the lives of people can be told through their surviving clothes.
TINA BAXTER ('Miss B.’) is City of London Guide. With Miss Kitty Pridden, she launched the Georgian Dining Academy with regular suppers at Simpson's Tavern off Cornhill: They have curated events at the Cartoon Museum, Maritime Museum, Royal Academy, Dr Johnson's House and Hatchlands Park.
