Talk about Vauxhall Gardens by Dr Alan Borg

Tuesday, 26^th November 2013, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm)

From the end of the 18th century until it closed in 1859, Vauxhall Gardens were London’s most famous pleasure gardens, offering food, noise, culture and debauchery to anyone who could afford the (modest) entry fee. In Vauxhall Gardens, David Coke and Alan Borg have chronicled with wit and learning the raucous history of a place central to the social and literary history of Georgian London.

Dr Alan Borg, CBE, FSA co-author of a History of Vauxhall Gardens was trained as a historian and art historian and is a former Director of the Imperial War Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum.

Light refreshments available.