A decolonial walk: Bengali migrants in the East End
To bring some post/decolonial history to a walking-tour literary festival, I’m offering Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. The novel’s protagonist is Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who comes to …
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Historical migrations of workers and layabouts
This walk’s published title is Historic Workingclass Migrations to London: Irish, Italian, African, Jewish, with the tag working-class standing in for a range of precarious situations. When poor…
Gender, Sex and Class in East End History
I’m glad to say I’ve achieved a goal to create walks in the East End of London. For these first walks I’ve focussed in the western area of…
What’s unusual about this antislavery walk?
My newest walk is Campaigning for the Abolition of Slavery: Central London Landmarks, which illuminates the many efforts to end slave-trading and slavery in Britain (and the world!)…
Which 14th-century working women did sex work?
I’m speaking at Salon for the City on Thursday night this week. The title of the salon is London: City of Sex Work, and my co-speaker is Julie…
History from Below in Camden Walks
From Navvyman by Dick Sullivan via www.victorianweb.org What do you think about when you hear the name Primrose Hill? Good pubs, celebrity-residents, the view over London? For me…
Wired! Walking to the printer’s shop on a crisp sunny day to pick up our photo panels…
We have photos to be exhibited! The photos have been blurred so as not to ruin your Photo Exhibition Experience. Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 2024 February…
An Interest in the Backside of Things
All our lives society has been represented to us as a hierarchy or pyramid in which the rich are located at the top, the middle class sits underneath…
I’ve won a prize: Women’s History Network Independent Researcher Grant
The best thing about this award is the fact that someone like myself can qualify at all. The Women’s History Network, recognising those doing rigorous research without being…
How to buy tickets for Laura’s London History Walks with Gender, Sex and Class
If you’re not an insider in ticket-buying circles, how to do it may not be obvious. Eventbrite is the name of an easy-to-use service that takes care of…
Open for Business: London Walks with Gender, Sex and Class
Why do most historical accounts fail to mention women? And not only women but just about every ordinary non-famous non-rich person that ever was, even in accounts of…
Who wants to go to Essex? A walk in Rochford town and by the River Roach
My title is a paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher’s dissing of Hackney, but prejudice against Essex is knee-jerk amongst loads of middle class folks who didn’t like her. Much…
Scratching out a living: The Medieval Female Proletariat – A guided walk
As part of the Totally Thames Festival to be held in September 2023 I’m offering a walk I created, Scratching out a living by the river: The Medieval female…
Escape, Exposure, and Life on the Pacific Crest Trail
An act of walking into the wilderness implies an act of walking out of somewhere or something. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), which extends over the US states…
Walking becomes political during the pandemic
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Bicram Rijal, PhD. Candidate in Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC., Canada. His doctoral thesis f…
Performing Water Rights on Cochiti Dam
Artistic performance opens up questions about water rights and social justice. [pquote]They were still left with an earthen dam structure that bisects their homelands and signifies sustained disposses…
My body, my walk
by Georgette Veerhuis Two weeks ago I was catcalled while I was making my way through Hull, a port town located in east Yorkshire. This prompted a reflexive…