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Keats House Museum Keats House is the beautiful Georgian villa where John Keats found inspiration, friendship and love. Facebook is a public page.

Visit the house and follow exhibition online. Romantic poet John Keats lived in this house from 1818 to 1820, and it is the setting that inspired some of Keats’s most memorable poetry. Here, Keats wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale', and fell in love with F***y Brawne, the girl next door. It was from this house that he travelled to Rome, where he died of tuberculosis aged just 25. Today, the house is a thriving museum that is not only dedicated to Keats's memory but a center for contemporary poetry. Keats House is owned and provided by the City of London Corporation. Please bear this in mind when posting your comments, especially regarding personal information. Further information on the City of London Corporation can be found at www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. The City of London Corporation is always happy to hear from you but please keep posts relevant. All comments will be monitored by Facebook and the City and any comments that are offensive or inappropriate will be removed. People who persistently cause conflict or offence to others will be removed and blocked from our social media pages.

Afternoon Poems: The Poetry of DecadenceJoin us for a free reading of poems from the anti-moralist, fantastical Decadenc...
16/10/2026

Afternoon Poems: The Poetry of Decadence

Join us for a free reading of poems from the anti-moralist, fantastical Decadence movement of the late 1800s, including Beardsley, Wilde and Baudelaire, Sunday, November 8, 2:15pm 3:15pm.

150 years ago, Decadence was picking up cultural steam. The writing of the period was to become some of the most opulent, enticing, grotesque, and imaginative ever put to page. Join our poetry ambassadors this month in exploring the weird, the wonderful, and the Wilde.

Reserve a place at https://tinyurl.com/j8f48nh3

Image: 'The Climax' by Aubrey Beardsley

Image Credit: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Only a week to go until our next kids drop-in session.Arrive any time between 2 and 4pm on Thursday 22 October to crea...
15/10/2026

Only a week to go until our next kids drop-in session.

Arrive any time between 2 and 4pm on Thursday 22 October to create a Gothic haunted mansion full of ghosts and ghouls 👻

Aimed at under 5s. There will also be toys, books and colouring!

More information (or book to guarantee your place) via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kids-at-keats-spooktastic-spook-house-tickets-2001520121563

Taking place in the Nightingale Room (library building).

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15/10/2026

"To Autumn" World Premier Keats House Museum Sun 18/10/2026 eclecticvoices.org.uk
1pm wegottickets.com/f/25948 HURRY - LAST FEW
3pm wegottickets.com/f/25949 SOLD OUT

We are excited to let you know that , when booking a paid place on the event 'A Conversation with Mary's Dress', you can...
09/10/2026

We are excited to let you know that , when booking a paid place on the event 'A Conversation with Mary's Dress', you can now get a second ticket absolutely .

Simply add an extra free ticket to you booking via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-a-conversation-with-mary-grahams-dress-tickets-1997143252229

Taking place at 2pm on Saturday 17 October in the beautiful Chester Room (pictured) at Keats House, you will have the chance to interact with a stunning replica 18th-century gown and hear more about the life of the original's owner.

Plus, a ticket to the event also provides admission to rest of Keats House until 4pm! 😍







in 1817, John Keats and his friend Benjamin Bailey visited Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon. Whilst Bai...
03/10/2026

in 1817, John Keats and his friend Benjamin Bailey visited Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon. Whilst Bailey listed his 'Place of Abode' in the visitor book as 'Oxford', Keats gave his as 'everywhere'.

Shakespeare was one of Keats's greatest literary heroes, referring to him as his 'presider'. This portrait of Shakespeare hung in Keats's parlour at Wentworth Place (now Keats House), watching over him as he worked. Today, it is still displayed in the very room where Keats wrote some of his most celebrated poetry.

Image 1: courtesy of Keats House, City of London Corporation. K/PZ/01/246.
Image 2: courtesy of Shakespeare Birthplace Trust archives. DR185/1.

Have you ever had a conversation with a dress? Join us on Saturday 17 October to do just that!Costume designer, publishe...
02/10/2026

Have you ever had a conversation with a dress? Join us on Saturday 17 October to do just that!

Costume designer, published author and London College of Fashion alumni Dr Lindsey Holmes will present a recreated 18th-century garment worn by the Honourable Mary Graham (1757-92), while taking your through her tragic life and death, and the parallels with Keats's own.

The session will include time to explore the interactive dress before exploring Keats House, which will be open exclusively for event attendees.

For more information and booking visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-conversation-with-marys-dress-tickets-1997143252229

Image (c) Dr Lindsey Holmes









For we've chosen a lesser known verse from John Keats's'Ode to Autumn', written in September 1819.Where are the songs ...
01/10/2026

For we've chosen a lesser known verse from John Keats's
'Ode to Autumn', written in September 1819.

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Happy !To celebrate, why not join us next week for an evening with acclaimed poets Niall Campbell and Todd Turner? They...
01/10/2026

Happy !

To celebrate, why not join us next week for an evening with acclaimed poets Niall Campbell and Todd Turner? They will be exploring landscape, memory and the quiet intersections of our worlds. The event will also mark the UK launch of Turner's third collection, 'Breathwork'.

📅 Friday 9th October
📍 Keats House, Hampstead
🎟️ Book your space via the link in our bio

As we head into autumn, we have so many exciting events lined up in October, with something for everyone!There will be a...
21/09/2026

As we head into autumn, we have so many exciting events lined up in October, with something for everyone!

There will be a event about Tennyson's early life from Richard Holmes, in partnership with Keats Foundation, a special event featuring an interactive Regency gown and a chance for under 5s to make a spooktastic spook house. Plus readings and more!

For more information and to book, visit keatsevents.eventbrite.co.uk



"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…" in 1819, John Keats composed his p...
19/09/2026

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…"

in 1819, John Keats composed his poem 'To Autumn' after a Sunday walk near Wi******er.

Writing to a friend a few days later, he described the season as having "a temperate sharpness" and declared: "I never liked stubble-fields so much as now."

As autumn begins to arrive in Hampstead, there's no better time to revisit one of Keats's best-loved poems 🍂

Image 1: 'Autumn Leaves' by John Everett Millais, 1855-56. Image courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery.
Image 2: Manuscript of 'To Autumn', John Keats, 1819. Image courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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