Inside London's Oldest Bookshop - Come Shop With Me at Hatchards!
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2023
- Welcome back to Queenie of London, and welcome to my first video of 2023! it's fantastic to be back!
I know that CZcams is currently awash with fitness, health, and diet videos, but it isn't just our bodies we need to keep fit, is it? This January & February I'm going to take you to the best places in London where you can exercise your mind! We all know that books are food for the soul and for the brain, and on dark, damp January days, a bookshop is the place to be!
So today we're off to Piccadilly to visit a British Instituion: London's - and possibly the UK's - oldest bookshop. Let's go inside Hatchards!
Celebrating 220 Years of Bookselling:
issuu.com/hatchards/docs/1019...
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I hope you enjoy the video!
Lots of love, Queenie x
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Good Evening 👑
Enjoy your new books with a nice hot Cuppa when you're back at Home...📚☕️
Aww, thank you! Now the video is up, I shall kick back and enjoy a few chapters! Thank you for watching, lovely! I hope you are keeping really well! Qx
Thank you for this video! Because of it, we made it a point to visit Hatchards on our visit to London this year! Went away with seven books.
You didn't even glance at my favourite section - philosophy and religion..... Anyways, cosy and classy bookshop. Many bookshops have closed or downsized here in South Africa, therefore I'd love to visit London someday to experience this.
Happy New Year to you too, you darling Londoner!
Thank you! I hope you are having a great start to 2023! Thank you for watching! Qx
@@QueenieofLondon look forward to all your new videos. I had a very ordinary start to the new year. Thank you. Xxx
I found this video very helpful. Thank you for that. And I'm gonna subscribe to this channel.
I'm so glad! Thank you so much for your lovely comment and for subscribing :) I hope you're having a great weekend :) Qx
Interesting video, l dont mind reading the odd book ,now again, have to be in the reading mode, though,
Absolutely lovely!
Thank you! :) It's good to be back! Qx
What a magnificent video to kick off 2023. Loved every minute of it Queenie, it was like visiting book heaven. I'd read about the fascinating history of the shop in my copy of W Macqueen-Pope's Goodbye Piccadilly. My eyes were bulging when you got to the London section, trying to spot my friend's 2 books that he did book signings for at Hatchards, Stephen Hoare, Piccadilly - London's West End, and the Pursuit of Pleasure, and Palaces of Power - The Birth and Evolution of London's Clubland, but alas, they weren't there. I got the Colours of London book by Peter Ackroyd, for Christmas. Looking forward already to your next video.
Barry you know all the GREATEST people and you alert me to such wonderful books! :) Just had a little gander at those of your friend - they sound AMAZING! On my list!
So glad you enjoyed - I picked up a couple by le Carré - not normally my thing but someone I follow on Twitter has totally made me want to dip my toes in and experiment with something new. I also picked out something that's been on my list for a while and I was surprised to see it there so I considered it a sign! I shall take an Instagram tomorrow as the cover is pretty insta worthy!
Have a truly great weekend Prince Barry! I may nip to Fortnums and see what's occuron' for Valentine's Day....Qx
Thank you very much for this. I will be in London in july and this will be a MUST
Hi there Maria! Yay! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and even more happy that you are coming to London soon! I hope you have lots of things planned and that you have a truly wonderful time! Qxx
Happy New year my lovely, i no i watch very late at night, like to watch CZcams wen hubby gone bed, missing my hometown as i do i find your videos so comforting , omg a signed paul McCartney book, he's my absolute idol, I'm addicted to books/reading, few yrs ago i had almost all 600 enid Blyton books, sold em wen left for Devon and my god I'm suddenly regretting it past few weeks x
Hello there, lovely! How are you doing?! Happy New Year to you! I hope it's going well so far! :)
I know! There were so many signed books , but the process was INSAANE! I picked up one by a historical who is still alive, and the book is only 3 years old - it was £170! I cannot imagine how muxh the McCartney one was!
Wow...see you should never sell things! Whenever I've done it, I've always ended up regretting it - and you can't replace them! Enid's books were such beauties - big part of my childhood too :) So lovely to hear from you Qxxx
Cool store, I love the history! I just bought a house in North Carolina, USA - previous owner left all kinds of OLD books. I found an older copy of The Wind in the Willows on the shelf and just finished reading it a week or so ago... Although I just turned 40, I did enjoy reading out Mole, Rat, the Badger, and Mr. Toad... Mr. Toad definitely needed an intervention.... LOL.
That is incredible! Complete treasure! :) I would have been so excited to find those! Congrats on your new home, too. I hope you are settling in well :) Oh, you've made me want to reread The Wind in the Willows. So enchanting! Qx
Happy New Year Queenie - hope you had a good Christmas! Thank you for the Christmas vlogs - it made me feel very festive! I like the look of the book shop - definitely my cup of tea! Spent a lot of happy hours in the library myself too! 💐❤
Happy New Year Queenie (or should I say Dr Queenie in view of your PhD ) xxxxx What a lovely shop. I’ve just messaged my son to watch as he loves books and would love this xx I hope this year bring everything you wish for you truly deserve it xxx I would love to hear more about your PhD xxxx My son did his Masters at UCL xxxx although I think he spent a lot of that time in the Waterstones nearby 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Helen! Hello lovely! It's great to read your comment! Hahaha - yes I did a PhD on British Vogue & The Bloomsbury Group in the 1920s at Keele Uni in the Midlands. :) Your son sounds like a clever chap, you must be so proud of him! Excellent taste in bookshops he has too - that Waterstones is legendary! :) I hope he enjoys having a look around Hatchards too! Thank you so much for watching, love, and for your lovely comment! I hope you are all having a great start to 2023! Qxxx
@@QueenieofLondon oh Queenie I love your vlogs and your comments are always so uplifting xxx Take care see you soon xxxxxx
When I was a child ,you could take out a max of 4 books . Spine labels would say E for easy - little ones books,JF for juvenile fiction
That is adorable! Isn't it wonderful how we can remember information like that from our childhoods?! I can recall from my local library where exactly my favourite series of books were. Such warm, fond memories :) Qx
Now I am in a bookclub in our local library reviewing books for the general public.
Happy New Year 🎉 I just loved this tour❤ I can get lost in book stores for hours, and this one is a wonder ❤ Thanks for the beautiful tour 😘
Me too lovely! I'm glad you enjoyed coming along to Hatchards with me! It's so nice to escape for an hour or two in a good bookshop! I love shops where they just let you be- let you take your time and browse. Have a lovely weekend! Qxx
Happy New Year Queenie.
Absolutely my favourite bookstore ♥️ I do yesterday big order from hatchard... I love read Victorian ghost stories and various horror story and hatchard have all for satisfied my gothic book's Passion.
How wonderful! :) I love a book delivery - I really hope you enjoy your new books! Thank you so much for watching, I'm really happy you enjoyed it :) Qx
@@QueenieofLondon are you from London? It's my favourite town 😍 it's a special place for me... I'm from Italy but I living in Germany... you video are AMAZING ♥️🇬🇧
@noemiamadei9548 yes, I am. Born and raised. Oh, how wonderful, I love Otaly, I have visited Rome (my favourite city) Florence, Venice and Milan. I dream of doing a whole tour of the beautiful country :) Thank you so much for your kind words Qxx
@@QueenieofLondon 🇬🇧♥️🤗
Happy New Year Queenie, Love from Arizona
lovely ! hugs to u !
Hugs to you too! Qx
Happy New Year, nice bookstore
Happy New Year to you, too! I'm glad you enjoyed seeing Hatchards! Qx
@Queenie of London yes I love ❤️ bookstores,thanks so much 💖!
I was looking forward to seeing a lot of old books, but it’s really a modern bookshop. I visited a bookstore in the USA in Birmingham Alabama and there were 1,000s of old books. I don’t think I saw one modern book.
That's enough to make me want to get a flight there immediately! I'm currently trying trying to hunt out Londons greatest collection of old books...I have found a very, very cool annual antique book fair that wpuld be great to take you all along to! Qx
@@QueenieofLondon great, let’s go!
Oh Queenie, this was fabulous!! Hatchards is the most incredible bookshop I have ever seen. If I lived there, I would be there all the time, and perpetually broke! Thank you so much for this wonderful vlog. I kept pausing it to write down book titles.
Happy New Year Queenie !!
Thank you that was a wonderful tour 😊
loved it and the history! on the bucket list sweetie 😉
What an interesting library!
Happy New Year Queenie hope you and your family including little Alfie
had a great Christmas 🎄🎄👍🏻😁
Great to see you back, been missing your vlogmas's, didn't want them to end
only 345 days until Christmas 👍🏻😁
Love the Bookshop, i have never been there, maybe one day.
Look forward to your next stream
Have a great weekend and week ahead
👍🏻👍🏻😁
How lovely to hear from you, Lee! Thank you so much for watching! Chrostmas day went by so quickly, but it was really lovely, thank you :) I really gone you and your family did too! I also hope you got some super gifts! How is 2023 going so far? Let's hope it's a good one!
Have a wonderful weekend whatever you're up to! I might take a little wander round the National Gallery tomorrow - I fancy a little art and some shelter from this miserable rain! Qx
Have you read "Winston and Clementine"? It's their letters to one another. It was edited by their daughter, Mary Soames.
Mr Churchill wrote A History of the English Speaking Peoples & he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
Ah there is the Maltese Embassy by there. I can see the flag flying.
I thought of you when I saw that! :) QX
@@QueenieofLondon Thats nice. xxx
Lovely book store. However, they would have more traffic and sales, if they opened up a secition of it for a medium size tearoom, and reading room, where people can relax, read, delight in their purchases, and perhaps buy again. If they do that, it will be more inviting; instead of the stiff, political stance that offers nothing but coldness. What say you, Miss Queenie? Happy New Year to you and yours.
Hi there!
Hmm, I'm not so sure I agree, although I do see where you're coming from. :) Qx
Hi! I hope you're well. I will be visiting London this summer and wanted to stop by 2 book shops. Do you have recommendations?
Hi there! Oooo that's exciting! I would definitely say Daunt Books in Marylebone. She's a beauty. And if you're into your antiquarian curiosities and want a REAL old fashioned experience, try Jarndyce, Great Russell Street! If you fancy nipping into a few in one area, Cecil Court by Leicester Square Tube is a book lovers heaven! (There's also a load on nearby Charing Cross Road. (Especially reccommend Any Amount of Books which has all secondhand!)
I hope you have a safe trip and a truly wonderful time! Qxxx
@@QueenieofLondon Thank very much! Truly appreciate your suggestions 😀
Hi queenie a bit random but did I see you in paro Indian restaurant Wednesday 😊
Hi Sharon! No, it wasn't me! Although I do quite like it in there and fancy a curry now! Haha! Hope you enjoyed your meal! Qxx
Pardon? What February ? Not taking down lights till then why? I don’t understand.
Queenie did say because it’s Candlemas. Superstitious people who miss taking decorations down by twelfth night may keep their decorations up until then. Also English Heritage are encouraging people to wait until Feb the 2nd too. I’ve noticed a few near me still have theirs up so I investigated! Lol xx
I loved St clares and malory towers.brer rabbit naughty AmeliaJane. Arabian NIghts. Enid blytons five find outers.
Yeah thank you !! So sick of fitness and eating healthy vlogs!!
Churchill is so cancelled but people mention him all the time like he was some great man, shame on you!
Whether or not Churchill was great doesn't come into play here. He was referenced in relation to a turn of events that occurred in relation to Chanel.
I am neither afraid of the past, nor afraid to discuss what occurred there. It does sound like you, however, are. Therefore, I suspect it's rather more a case of shame on you. Such an approach to history will lead you to nowhere but hollow ignorance.