#London Plaque Tiddlywinks No.30! Back To Square One! Sorry, That Should Read Circle One!

WE MADE IT! PLAQUE NUMBER 30!

Every night in the month of April we've been jumping from one literary London plaque to another, connecting each plaque to another literary figure commemorated elsewhere in London with a nugget of literary trivia. Creative collaborations, romantic entanglements, feuds, places-in-common, the links have varied, but over the course of the past 30 days we have covered poets, biographers, novelists, humourists, critics, thriller writers and more…

30. BRINGS US FULL CIRCLE!  John F. Kennedy, President of the United States 1961 – 1963 lived in London when his father was U.S Ambassador to the Court of St James. Kennedy wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles In Courage, published in 1956. Among his own favourite books, Kennedy listed From Russia With Love, the James Bond thriller written by…


Thanks for reading! Blue Plaque Tiddlywinks will return for another series later in the year. 

In the meantime, catch up with all 30 connected Literary London plaque posts here…

1. John F. Kennedy

2. Ian Fleming

3. George Orwell

4. T.S Eliot

5. Ezra Pound

6. Karl Marx

7. Charles Dickens

8. Benjamin Disraeli

9. William Makepeace Thackeray

10. Terence Rattigan

11. George Bernard Shaw

12. J.M Barrie

13. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

14. Dorothy L. Sayers

15. William Hazlitt

16. John Keats

17. Percy Byshe Shelley

18. Mary Shelley

19. Charles Dickens

20. Isaac Rosenberg

21. G.K Chesterton

22. H.G Wells

23. Enid Blyton

24. Daphne Du Maurier

25. George Du Maurier

26. Kingsley Amis

27. Lytton Strachey

28. Graham Greene

29. Robert Louis Stevenson

30. President Kennedy

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