Interactive map and exhibition show Europe’s literary links with London

European literary map of London - Screenshot of the interactive map. Credit: UCL European Institute. Stories of the streets of London are brought to life in an interactive digital map developed by UCL experts, making it possible to explore the city through the eyes of European writers, artists and intellectuals, through the ages. Curated by the UCL European Institute, UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis,  Lost & Found: A European Literary Map of London  showcases texts written in over 20 languages, with each location the site of a real or imagined encounter with London by a European writer. The map captures and explores the impact London has had on writers such as Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who in his first encounter with London in 1847 referred to it as "the city of cities", as well as a letter written by Vincent van Gogh, who lived in South London for three years in the early 1870s. Other names include Giacomo Casanova, Karl Marx, Victor Hugo and Joseph Conrad, alongside contemporary "It is fitting for UCL to be leading this project given our rich tradition of scholarship on European languages and cultures, our connections to cultural organisations across the capital and the continent, and our status as London's Global University." Alongside the launch of the map and exhibition will be a new Writer in Residency programme, run in partnership with EUNIC London (European Union National Institutes for Culture), the European Literature Network, the Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom, and with the support of Geothe-Institut London.