Laura Agustín

Celebrate #WorldBookDay with our Literary Festival: the annual walking book club! Great London walks for book lovers all month. Book at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social @walkingtalkinglon.bsky.social @stephensldn.bsky.social

To those who said I'd not be able to sell tickets to a walk called Monica Ali's Brick Lane - Bengali History in the East End: I sold 13, 4 to Bengalis, so I made some money but better was knowing I'd not judged wrong, that folks do want non-always-white-people history-walks.

Bluesky isn't letting me direct-message you. Please repost Disorderly Women. x

Disorderly Women of Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks East of the Tower old-clothes sellers, sex workers, thieves and sailors' wives held sway both before and after the London Docks were built.

Disorderly: Classist word for poor women who sold old clothes and sex. Rag Fair stretched from Tower Hill down Cable St, bawdy houses everywhere along the walls of the 1805 London Dock. JMW Turner had a pub there. Walk Mon 9 March. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disorderly...

Throughout March we're running our unique London-centric literary festival - a walking book club of in person and virtual tours. Join us at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @capitalwalks.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social @stephensldn.bsky.social @walkingtalkinglon.bsky.social

A walk on Bengali history via the story of a young migrant woman makes @londonist.com. Great. Most Londoners don't know the back-streets of Whitechapel at all, and they are super-mixed heritage/nationality/ethnicity + old and new + farm animals and murals galore. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Thanks for telling me, it's always good to find others with the same desire.

Walking Tour - Monica Ali's Brick Lane - Bengali History in the East End Bengalis have been arriving in London for centuries. In this novel a young married woman at first housebound emerges empowered.

Monica Ali's Brick Lane is a universal feminist story. Nazneen migrates from Bangladesh to Whitechapel in 1985 via an arranged marriage. At 1st shut-in and dominated by her husband by 2002 she is empowered and living her own life. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Stealing the Common from the Goose: Kennington Enclosed An 1848 Chartist rally scared the government into taking away rights to the common. Now we have a park and pockets of green -- what's gone?

New walk: Stealing the Common from the Goose: Kennington Enclosed. Powers-that-be were so scared by the Chartist 1848 Monster Rally on Kennington Common that they immediately put up fences and made it a 'park'. Open spaces aren't all the same. 10 May. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stealing-t...

Thanks @londonist.com for listing the Navvies! All credit shouldn't go to engineers, who conferred with diggers on technical problems and not just for railways but also canals. In Primrose Hill it's the Regent's Canal and Camden Goods Yard and more. 20 Feb. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/primrose-h...

@londonist.com has listed a favourite walk, running next Friday. Scratching Out a Living has 2 guides: @robssmith.bsky.social for the Big 14century Picture and me for 6 characters I created to fill the gap in historical accounts. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scratching...

@londonist.com has listed a favourite walk, running next Friday. Scratching Out a Living has 2 guides: @robssmith.bsky.social for the Big 14century Picture and me for 6 characters I created to fill the gap in historical accounts. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scratching...

Walking Tour - Scratching out a living: The Medieval Female Proletariat How do we know how poor women lived in the Middle Ages when historians have ignored them? Walk the Thames and meet 6 medieval working women.

The Medieval Female Proletariat is finally happening in the daylight on a weekday. Meet six 14C women working near the Thames: scullery maid, victualler, laundress, alewife, sex worker, huckster. Co-guide @robssmith.bsky.social @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Walking Tour - Scratching out a living: The Medieval Female Proletariat How do we know how poor women lived in the Middle Ages when historians have ignored them? Walk the Thames and meet 6 medieval working women.

The Medieval Female Proletariat is finally happening in the daylight on a weekday. Meet six 14C women working near the Thames: scullery maid, victualler, laundress, alewife, sex worker, huckster. Co-guide @robssmith.bsky.social @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

The World's End walk is also about WWII as bombers targeted the Lots Road Power Station over and over and missed. Donald James's memoir A Blitz Childhood describes the night the Guinness tenement he lived in was obliterated - he happened to be away. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/worlds-end...

Trendy Chelsea of the 60s is thought to belong farther east on King's Road but Gandalf's Garden ('shop and mystical community') was there in the World's End, as was Granny Takes A Trip. Hippie/Hip/Bohemian/Workingclass. Walk: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/worlds-end...

Featured in What's On in the Londonist: World's End - Living in the Wrong End of Chelsea. Next Saturday. @londonist.com @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social
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Focussing on folks omitted from historical accounts and walks has led me to: World's End, the 'Wrong End of Chelsea'. Power station, pleasure gardens sexwork, riverside, JMW Turner, World's End pub/estate & the Blitz. Next Saturday @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Walk the route taken by 2 London teens convicted of stealing and condemned to hang in 1825. Instead they were transported to Australia where convicts are now saluted as founders. 2 million Brits have convict ancestors - do you? @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Come on a walk in the backstreets of Holborn this Saturday to find traces of poorer folk's migrations to London. It will be cold, crisp and quiet. Pub at the end. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

The Way to Botany Bay: Sentenced to Transportation History of Islington youths convicted of theft and condemned to hang who were instead shipped to Australia where they are called founders.

From 1821 English courts began transporting convicted criminals to Australia, for crimes mostly considered trivial today. In Australia having a convict-ancestor is now a source of pride. Two million Brits have convict-ancestors, but how many are proud of it? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-way-to...

he last time I did the walk, English walkers were shocked that Australians now celebrate convict-ancestors and Australian walkers didn't get why the English were shocked. In the day, no matter what convicts had done they were called drunks and prostitutes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Before the war in North America Britain transported convicts there. After losing that war it decided on Terra Australis as new penal colony, converting convicts into settlers whether they liked it or not. This Sunday 1300 Angel to Blackfriars. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Thanks to @londonist.com for listing this walk to follow folks mostly considered Nobodies: 2 girls nicked for stealing a piece of cloth in 1825, jailed in Newgate, sentenced to death but later transported for life to Botany Bay. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

he last time I did the walk, English walkers were shocked that Australians now celebrate convict-ancestors and Australian walkers didn't get why the English were shocked. In the day, no matter what convicts had done they were called drunks and prostitutes. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Before the war in North America Britain transported convicts there. After losing that war it decided on Terra Australis as new penal colony, converting convicts into settlers whether they liked it or not. This Sunday 1300 Angel to Blackfriars. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

The route uses streets the girls would have walked in 1825, past houses, shops, prisons and open spaces they'd have known. The walk is based on a Londoner's Ancestry research, and ship-records show how the girls fared in Australia. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Thanks to @londonist.com for listing this walk to follow folks mostly considered Nobodies: 2 girls nicked for stealing a piece of cloth in 1825, jailed in Newgate, sentenced to death but later transported for life to Botany Bay. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Before the war in North America Britain transported convicts there. After losing that war it decided on Terra Australis as new penal colony, converting convicts into settlers whether they liked it or not. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-way-to...

The Way to Botany Bay: Sentenced to Transportation History of Islington teenagers convicted of theft, jailed in Newgate and condemned to hang -- but instead they were shipped to Australia.

The route uses streets the girls would have walked in 1825, past houses, shops, prisons and open spaces they'd have known. The walk is based on a Londoner's Ancestry research, and ship-records show what happened to the girls in Australia. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-way-to...