Links to some radical history/herstory/ourstory walks we have put together (or have discovered devised by others & blatantly stole), around various areas of the city we live in, love in, struggle to transform… Hoping to retread them again in real space, soon.
We’ll add to this as & when we can…
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Trespass the New River
A radical wander down North London’s longest aqueduct
A companion walk to this post on the creation of the New River, Water use, Moral Economies, and more in early modern London
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‘Dung, Guts and Blood’
A wander up the lower reaches of London’s Fleet River.
Devised 2008-9
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‘Zone of Transition’
A radical history walk around Spitalfields and Brick Lane.
Devised 2008.
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Radical Deptford and New Cross
During the 2001 Mayday Festival of Alternatives Neil Gordon-Orr led a merry dance round this South East London heartland, braving threats from dodgy Millwall fans, occasional monsoons and the A2. A walk bursting with rebellion and great music.
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‘A Shabby London Suburb?’
A walk around the radical & working class history of Hammersmith
From the legendary West London Anarchists & Radicals, first walked in May 2001.
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Bloomsbury Hidden Ourstories
In April 2006 we rambled around Bloomsbury, and discussed its radical past, with barely a mention of literary nonsense.
We’ve split this into two walks for ease of walking and thematic dynamics, as things had got very long:
A Wander in Bohopia
A Radical History Walk around Bloomsbury (Part 1)
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Virtue Among Equals
Bloomsbury Radical Herstory, (Walk Two)
But: here’s the original shorter walk from 2006
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‘Rare Doings at Camberwell’
A Wander around some of the radical history of London SE5
First walked in June 2006.
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Common Land and Squatting in London Fields, Hackney
A Historical Wander
A walk created in July 2011, around London Fields and Central Hackney…
A start towards mapping squatting over the whole borough?
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Notes Towards a Women’s Walking Tour of the East End
Gratuitously reprinted from Spare Rib and Our Sisters London
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past tense 