Seven Dials Covent Garden is a unique quarter of London whose star-shaped layout remains as constructed in the early 1690s. It was brought back to life largely through the dedication of the Seven Dials Trust, working in partnership with the local authorities and landowners for nearly forty years.

Thomas Roueché has lived in Seven Dials since 2008, and is an editor, writer and researcher. He grew up in North London and as a child attended the Chandos Day Nursery in Dudley Court. He works on middle eastern culture and contemporary cultural projects and publications more broadly and he has lived in Istanbul, Amsterdam and New York. He has always been interested in the history of the area around St Giles-in-the-Fields and Seven Dials and became a trustee in 2015.