The big movie release this week is Suffragette, but 100 years before the Pankhurst-led push for suffrage, a Hackney-based hero was scandalising the establishment by suggesting a woman could be a man’s equal. She is the star of our polemical walk ‘Feminist (Or Is It?) Stoke Newington’. Often referred to as the ‘founder of modern…
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October Walks & Runs with Hackney Tours
Autumn is upon us, judging by those clouds outside. All the more reason to get out and enjoy the changing of the seasons as the leaves turn brown and thoughts turn to Halloween, Bonfire Night and our other rituals marking the passing of time. As mounting research shows, it’s good to be amongst nature; you’ve…
Walking Tour of London 2012 Olympic Park as seen in Guardian newspaper
NEVER MIND THE ‘LIMPIKS WALKING TOUR, AS SEEN IN GUARDIAN ONLINE: Sat 10 & 24 March 12pm Hackney Wick Rail 1.5-2hrs; ends at Olympic Park View Tube (Pudding Mill Lane DLR) £10 (£8 concs) in advance (book here) or £12/£10 on the day It’s huge, it’s in Hackney
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…
Abney Park: Stoke Newington’s Dead Centre of Dissent
“There’s no point complaining,” says Dave, any time you ask him how he is. And indeed, he doesn’t complain; though he has been known to have the occasional rant about the state of the country or the management of this or that. But like the other volunteers, slashing steadily at the undergrowth that has been…
Hackney Tours: East LDN Creative Exploration 