Our Story
The Memoir Club, in the heart of London’s Bloomsbury, is a celebration of the values of its namesake. A place to be yourself, to evoke your true self unreservedly in the company of those you enjoy. A place both exclusive and inclusive - a club open to all.
Our contemporary hotel, although grounded in the present, is inspired by the Memoir Club created in 1920.
Twelve friends were drawn from the deeply influential group of writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Set. The friends set about regrouping after the War by sharing their deeply personal autobiographical writings. The rules were simple - whomever was presenting their memoir was required to be candid, while the people doing the listening were obliged to extend an equal openness.
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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device
Edward Morgan Forster OM CH was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly 'A Room with a View', 'Howards End', and 'A Passage to India'. He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays.
Vanessa Bell was an English painter and interior designer and the sister of Virginia Woolf
Arthur Clive Heward Bell was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. He developed the art theory known as 'significant form'
Duncan James Corrowr Grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes
Lydia Lopokova was a ballerina famous during the early 20th century. Lopokova trained at the Imperial Ballet School and toured with the Ballets Russes in 1910, and re-joined them in 1916 after an interlude in the United States
One of the most influential economists and philosophers of the twentieth century whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. and is known as the "father of macroeconomics”