Harlots and Strumpets and Tarts, Oh My! Stockingfiller Special!
Fri, 20 Dec
|London
Let the 18th century working girls of Covent Garden give you a festive treat this Christmas!
Time & Location
20 Dec 2024, 19:30 – 21:30
London, 15 James St, London WC2E 8BU, UK
Guests
About the event
"HO HO HO'S..!"
Looking for a fun and thoughtful stocking filler this Christmas? Then look no further!
Hogarth, Harlots, Moll Flanders... you've seen the paintings, watched the TV shows and read the books... now visit the places that London's REAL strumpets called home.
Allow your guide, 'The Baroness' to transport you back to the London of three hundred years ago and into the steamy underworld of the Georgian sex worker. Meet the women that 'made it', and those that ended up in the gutter; the high class courtesans and the gin-addled street walkers; the business-savvy Brothel Madams and the corrupted country girls. Hear the stories of the women that weren't often given a voice - in a trade that existed to serve men and the patriarchy. What was it really like for them, and have we learned the lessons of the past?
Eighteenth Century London's sordid, saucy, and often brutal…
Tickets
General Admission
£18.50+£0.46 service fee
Total
£0.00