To celebrate International Women’s Day on Fri 8th March, we’re running our Feminist (Or Is It?) walk in reverse on Sat 9th. This time we’ll START at the place of Mary Wollstonecraft’s radicalisation, the Unitarian Chapel at Newington Green (10-15 mins walk from either Dalston Kingsland or Dalston Junction). We’ll get a short talk and…
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International Women’s Day & Women’s History Month walk: Feminism, Fame & Infamy: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Occupy – How Hackney Women Have Shaped Our World
SPECIAL ‘INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY’ & ‘WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH’ WALK: FEMINISM, FAME & INFAMY: FROM MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT TO OCCUPY – HOW HACKNEY WOMEN HAVE SHAPED OUR WORLD Sun 4th March, 2pm Stoke Newington Rail Stn N16 2hrs; ends near Dalston; £9 (£7 concs). Please book if you can! Special version ending with a short tour of…
Upcoming guided walking tours in Hackney: Stoke Newington – Occupy for the 1700s
JUST 4 PEOPLE IS ENOUGH TO HIRE US, OR TAKE THE NEXT FIXED-DATE GUIDED WALKING TOURS: STOKE NEWINGTON & NEWINGTON GREEN: OCCUPY FOR THE 1700s Sat 11th & 18th Feb, 2pm Stoke Newington Rail N16 1.5-2hrs; ends near Dalston; £9 (£7 concs). Please book if you can! Follow in the footsteps of Hackney’s radicals, revolutionaries…
How Hackney Women Have Shaped Our World – latest guided walking tour
FEMINISM, FAME AND INFAMY: FROM MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT TO OCCUPY – HOW HACKNEY WOMEN HAVE SHAPED OUR WORLD Sat 28 Jan, 2pm Stoke Newington Rail Stn N16 1.5-2hrs; ends near Dalston; £9 (£7 concs). Please book if you can! Hear how Hackney has been home to rebels, radicals and revolutionaries for hundreds of years. From alternative…
The Black Helicopters of Hackney
It’s an unmistakeable sound – the deep thukka-thukka of giant counter-rotating blades missing each other by milliseconds at a rate that blows the non-mechanical mind. Silhouetted against a winter Clapton sky the Chinooks – heavy-lift double-rotored helicopters that often swing by here on an afternoon (always north to south, usually in pairs) work their way…
