Hatchard’s will celebrate the publication of Maggie Humm’s new book, The Bloomsbury Photographs (2024) with a special “lantern show” at 18:30 BST on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at its shop on Piccadilly.

About the event

At the event, Maggie Humm will offer a fresh portrait of the Bloomsbury Group by showing a curated selection of the thousands of photographs that shows them in a setting of domestic intimacy. Scenes include the pastimes, children, clothes, houses, servants, pets, and holidays of the group.

According to Hatchard’s: “Several photographs are blurred as if taken in a hurried moment of time, and unguarded close-ups reflect complex personal relationships – revealing them to be more than simply documents; they are testimonies of relationships, friendships, and the significance of empathetic lives.”

About tickets and the author

Tickets are priced at £5 for members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and Hatchard’s Reward Card holders. General admission is £10. Tickets are available online, but sales end soon.

Humm is vice-chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and author of many monographs about Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, including her novel Talland House, which is based on Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

Hatchard’s on Piccadilly