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SUMMARY:Abolition! Anti-Slavery campaigning: Central London Landmarks
DESCRIPTION:This walk reveals where many key London events took place in British campaigns against slavery and slave-trading between the mid-1700s and mid-1800s. Fugitive and former slaves\, white lawyers\, activists and orators along with black activists\, authors and musicians come alive in a walk from Chancery Lane to Fleet Street\, Lincoln’s Inn and Covent Garden\, ending at Embankment Gardens. The capture in London of escaped slaves led to legal cases espoused by campaigners. Slaves were given as gifts by West Indies travellers and slave-owners to wealthy Londoners who often considered them fashion-accessories. There were small communities of free blacks\, many working as servants\, and blacks made free by fighting on the British side during wars thronged to London\, some becoming beggars but others getting by and even moving into the middle class. On the walk you meet Olaudah Equiano\, James Somerset\, Granville Sharp\, Billy Waters\, Sarah Parker Remond\, Thomas Clarkson\, Mary Prince\, Ottobah Cuguano\, Elizabeth Heyrick\, Samuel Johnson\, the Fisk Jubilee Singers and more names now usually forgotten.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/abolition-anti-slavery-campaigning-central-london-landmarks/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241207T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241207T150000
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SUMMARY:Gin Lane: Thieves and Thief-takers in the Night-Cellars of Seven Dials
DESCRIPTION:Now it’s trendy and pretty\, but 18th-century Seven Dials was notorious for poverty and crime. With no organised police force\, thieves\, highwaymen and fences bribed those hired to catch them\, meeting in low-down dives where they spoke a secret language called flash. The notoriously corrupt Jonathan Wild captured thief Jack Sheppard more than once\, but Jack made dramatic escapes from prison aided by his sexworker-partner Edgworth Bess. \nWith gin selling at a penny a glass\, carousing was full-on in areas outsiders called rookeries\, thieves’ kitchens\, the Holy Land (because of the Irish presence) and\, for Drury Lane’s red-light zone\, Little Sodom. A range of middle-class spies\, social investigators\, reporters and slum-tourists came to look and sometimes participate in goings-on they found appalling and titillating. John Gay portrayed popular hero Jack Sheppard and Public Enemy Jonathan Wild in the characters of Captain MacHeath and Mr Peachum\, in The Beggar’s Opera\, London’s favourite theatre-piece throughout the 18th century. What fun!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/gin-lane-thieves-and-thief-takers-in-the-night-cellars-of-seven-dials-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241201T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241201T163000
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SUMMARY:The Regent’s Canal: King’s Cross-Granary Square-Camden
DESCRIPTION:On this walk we will start at the impressive new developments around King’s Cross and St Pancras including two magnificent railway gateways to London. We will see impressive monuments to Victorian enterprise and engineering in the beautifully restored and revived Granary Building and the extraordinary Coal Drops now the home to London’s thriving University of the Arts. You will pass quiet stretches of canal side including the lovely urban oasis of Camley Street Nature Park. See how this area has undergone a massive transformation from declining transport and warehousing hub to a dynamic urban quarter attracting major tech firms like Google which has honoured its industrial heritage. We pass Camden Lock with its vibrant alternative scene and finish our walk close to Camden Town tube. This walk is fundraiser. All takings this walk will go to the Inland Waterways Association to support the restoration and upkeep of Britain’s wonderful heritage of canals.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/the-regents-canal-kings-cross-granary-square-camden/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241109T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241109T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240722T185302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240722T185302Z
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SUMMARY:Disgraceful Women of Old St John's Wood
DESCRIPTION:This walk begins 200 years ago in St John’s Wood\, where family arrangements routinely diverged from Victorian rules of respectability. What did it mean to be a Kept Woman? Was it only disreputable or an act of shameful immorality? Some mistresses were movers and shakers\, like Harriet Howard who financed the return of Louis Napoleon to the French throne. Novelist George Eliot lived placidly for many years with someone else’s husband\, not far from a brothel where sex workers were known as laundresses. A bigamous Agapemonite minister lived with multiple rich unmarried female followers. All this took place in a suburb built with high walls and thick trees to ensure privacy and discretion. \nWe walk south into Lisson Grove\, considered a Victorian slum\, where journalist WT Stead staged a scandal he called The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon\, when he bought Eliza Armstrong from her mother to prove it could be done. \nHow much did social class determine whether society was appalled by alternative sexual arrangements? Were unmarried women with lovers heroines or victims? Come on this walk to consider scandals of 200 years ago that might sound familiar today\, and at the same time join up two neighbourhoods you never thought about together before.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/disgraceful-women-of-old-st-johns-wood/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241103T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241103T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240904T103552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T103743Z
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SUMMARY:A watery wander around King’s Cross and St. Pancras
DESCRIPTION:An almost-circular walk around King’s Cross and St. Pancras stations and the extraordinary\, vibrant redevelopment of what was a semi-derelict wasteland of railway lands. The area originally had a plentiful supply of water from the now-hidden River Fleet and associated lost springs and wells\, then the man-made Regent’s Canal supplied more water from the early 1800s.\nThis walk explores how all things watery have influenced the development of the area\, from lost pleasure gardens and an ancient church by a riverbank\, to canal locks\, steam engines and gas storage holders\, then today’s inspiring water features and a tranquil nature reserve. \nThis walk starts outside King’s Cross Station\, lasts 2 – 2 1/4 hours and ends near St. Pancras Station. \nPre-book only via Eventbrite\, click here to choose your date.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/a-watery-wander-around-kings-cross-and-st-pancras/2024-11-03/
LOCATION:King’s Cross Station\, Euston Road\,\, London\, N1 9AL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241025T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241025T133000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
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SUMMARY:Camden Town Walk: a journey through history and culture
DESCRIPTION:Discover Camden Town with Elena and Mike. \nIt’s lively\, it’s quirky\, it’s cosmopolitan and it’s packed full of history! Camden Town is all of these things. It’s a neighbourhood that has been shaped by many communities\, from the Irish to the Greek-Cypriots\, each leaving an indelible mark. Charles Dickens\, a very unhappy former resident\, immortalised Camden Town’s poverty\, squalor and deprivation in his literary musings. \nCamden Town was developed at the end of the 18th century with the aim to attract the wealthy middle classes\, but the arrival of the railways put a stop to those ambitious plans. On the plus side\, it now boasts the best-preserved railway heritage complex in the UK! \nOn this walk you will hear about the gin warehouses that once lined the Regent’s Canal\, the Victorian ice-wells now hidden from view and the hundreds of horses working in the goodyards. You will also discover how Camden’s numerous pubs\, ballrooms and warehouses have become a mecca for music makers and music lovers over the decades.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/camden-town-walk-a-journey-through-history-and-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241024T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241024T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240928T141019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240928T141019Z
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SUMMARY:Colours of Bloomsbury
DESCRIPTION:Bloomsbury is such a lively area. On this walk through the streets and squares of Bloomsbury\, Maggie Coates will tell the tale of some of the colourful humans who have helped to create it. From the people who made a “red” square to the architect of a black and white church\, from Graham Greene to a black icon.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/colours-of-bloomsbury/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241019T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241019T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240722T185604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240722T185604Z
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SUMMARY:Historic Workingclass Migrations to London: Irish\, Italian\, African\, Jewish
DESCRIPTION:Working-class migrants\, often maligned as ‘economic migrants’\, do business\, make families\, invent objects\, bring pleasures\, help each other\, fight and die together. One old area of central London shows strong and sympathetic traces of the migrations of poorer folk from the late-18th to 20th centuries from near and far\, including from within England itself. The walk begins in the Fleet Ditch and works its way uphill through early Italian and Irish settlements in Saffron Hill into areas of more mixing\, taking note of Blacks from Africa via the West Indies and ending with Jewish migrations from numerous locations that made Hatton Garden’s Diamond Street. \nOn weekends you can see traces of old migrations as well as new – it’s clearly still an area favoured for opening new small businesses.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/historic-workingclass-migrations-to-london-irish-italian-african-jewish/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240904T103552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T103743Z
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SUMMARY:A watery wander around King’s Cross and St. Pancras
DESCRIPTION:An almost-circular walk around King’s Cross and St. Pancras stations and the extraordinary\, vibrant redevelopment of what was a semi-derelict wasteland of railway lands. The area originally had a plentiful supply of water from the now-hidden River Fleet and associated lost springs and wells\, then the man-made Regent’s Canal supplied more water from the early 1800s.\nThis walk explores how all things watery have influenced the development of the area\, from lost pleasure gardens and an ancient church by a riverbank\, to canal locks\, steam engines and gas storage holders\, then today’s inspiring water features and a tranquil nature reserve. \nThis walk starts outside King’s Cross Station\, lasts 2 – 2 1/4 hours and ends near St. Pancras Station. \nPre-book only via Eventbrite\, click here to choose your date.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/a-watery-wander-around-kings-cross-and-st-pancras/2024-10-16/
LOCATION:King’s Cross Station\, Euston Road\,\, London\, N1 9AL\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lesley Thompson":MAILTO:walk@lesleythompson.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241006T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241006T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240722T185852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240722T185852Z
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SUMMARY:London's Sex Industry and the Stage in the Long 18th Century
DESCRIPTION:Charles II lifted the Puritan ban on theatre-going\, and by 1700 London was sex-capital of Europe. This walk starts with the stage at a time when all actresses were assumed to be prostitutes and theatres a place for clients to find them. We pass through areas where street-walkers and bawdy houses were closely linked with playhouses\, and we hear about high-class masquerades where actress-courtesans like Sophia Baddeley might appear. There are the bawds who kept houses\, the women who worked in them\, like Sally Salisbury\, and Harris’s List\, where they might advertise. We hear about homosexual Molly Houses as well as Jelly Houses\, Coffee Houses\, Bagnios and Masquerades. Links between corrupt government officials and criminals formed the plot of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera in 1728\, with its cast of thief-takers\, highwaymen\, pickpockets and sex workers like Jenny Diver who met in flash houses where they spoke a secret language. The unscrupulous Society for the Reform of Manners tried to close down vice\, but things began to change when Social Reformers said women selling sex were victims needing rescue. The walk starts in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and passes through Covent Garden and surrounding streets like Drury Lane\, where ordinary folks lived who sold sex – orange-girls like Nell Gwyn\, flower girls and patrons of dance halls. The underworld called this red-light area where you might meet thief Jack Sheppard’s partner Edgworth Bess the Hundreds of Drury.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/londons-sex-industry-and-the-stage-in-the-long-18th-century-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240820T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240820T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240704T192219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240704T192219Z
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SUMMARY:Secrets of St. Giles: a walk through London's infamous past
DESCRIPTION:Join Elena to discover the fascinating history of St. Giles. \nWe will delve into the darker chapters of London’s past as we uncover the secrets of this infamous neighbourhood. We will wander through the alleys where tales of poverty and crime once echoed (Dickens will get a mention or two\, of course…) and discover the remnants of centuries-old buildings that bear witness to St Giles’ tumultuous history. \nAs we wind our way from the ancient church built on the site of a leper colony to the site of the infamous rookeries and gallows\, now replaced by some of the most striking modern architecture in London\, we’ll talk music\, pubs\, executions and developers’ greed. There is something for everyone on this walk!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/secrets-of-st-giles-a-walk-through-londons-infamous-past/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240721T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240721T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240220T195427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195427Z
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SUMMARY:Hampstead: the village on the hill
DESCRIPTION:You probably know Hampstead as a very attractive area of very posh houses and very famous people. But why is it so lovely to walk around? \nIt’s a lot to do with a hill which prevented major roads and any railways being built: so uniquely in London it preserves a Georgian village streetscape. It also had many springs which supported a Tudor laundry business and then a fashionable Spa attraction in the 1700’s. \nAnd its healthy air and great views have always made it an attractive place for the wealthy\, and for artists\, writers and entertainers. So there are plenty of lovely houses to see: but this walk also explores buildings such as old workhouses and bath houses which remind us that plenty of “ordinary” people lived there too! \nBut above all its a beautiful old village on a hill: do come and explore it!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/hampstead-the-village-on-the-hill/2024-07-21/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240706T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240706T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240704T191637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240704T191637Z
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SUMMARY:For the Many: Chartists and Marxists in Soho
DESCRIPTION:The Chartists were a formidable mass movement to extend the right to vote for the working classes. They were active in Soho and there were several links with Karl Marx\, who famously lived in Dean St. Other inhabitants included the poet and artist William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley\, who made the phrase ” Ye are many – they are few” famous in his poem about the massacre of protestors in 1819 nicknamed Peterloo. \nTake a fascinating stroll through Soho and learn more about its radical past
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/for-the-many-chartists-and-marxists-in-soho/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240706T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240706T000000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240505T191437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240505T191437Z
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SUMMARY:Primrose Hill and the Navvies
DESCRIPTION:The neighbourhood radiates brilliant industrial solutions of Victorian engineers\, but who built it? This walk puts hard-working navvies at the centre of the story and tells how the area developed in the face of the railway’s soot and smoke. The walk follows a beautiful stretch of the Regent’s Canal\, and from the top of the famous hill you have great views over London. You’ll see railway landmarks as well as the artists’ studios and pastel-painted streets that came later\, in one of which lives Paddington Bear. Primrose Hill cherishes a high street largely free of chain shops and numerous good pubs. It’s all minutes from Camden Market but feels miles away.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/primrose-hill-and-the-navvies-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240703T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240703T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240419T124413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T124413Z
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SUMMARY:Meet the Guides - Camden Tour Guides Association FREE walk
DESCRIPTION:This FREE walk is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning about becoming a qualified Camden Tour Guide\, offering an opportunity to meet existing Camden Guides\, go with them on a tour around the King’s Cross area and have a chance to talk to them about the course and what it’s like to be a tour guide in Camden today. \nThe next course starts end September 2024. If you are unable to come on this date but are interested in the course\, then please email course@camdenguides.com or visit our website for information at https://camdenguides.com/training.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/meet-the-guides-camden-tour-guides-association-free-walk-3/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240629T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240629T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240220T195427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195427Z
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SUMMARY:Hampstead: the village on the hill
DESCRIPTION:You probably know Hampstead as a very attractive area of very posh houses and very famous people. But why is it so lovely to walk around? \nIt’s a lot to do with a hill which prevented major roads and any railways being built: so uniquely in London it preserves a Georgian village streetscape. It also had many springs which supported a Tudor laundry business and then a fashionable Spa attraction in the 1700’s. \nAnd its healthy air and great views have always made it an attractive place for the wealthy\, and for artists\, writers and entertainers. So there are plenty of lovely houses to see: but this walk also explores buildings such as old workhouses and bath houses which remind us that plenty of “ordinary” people lived there too! \nBut above all its a beautiful old village on a hill: do come and explore it!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/hampstead-the-village-on-the-hill/2024-06-29/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240623T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240220T200418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T200418Z
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SUMMARY:Slums and Squares and Rock n'Roll
DESCRIPTION:You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles’ area: Tottenham Court Rd tube\, Centrepoint\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Seven Dials…but you probably don’t know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting\, a medieval leper colony\, a failed posh residential district\, a notorious Victorian slum and the most unspoilt Georgian square in London. I would be delighted to help you explore all this (and see the street where Elton John worked as a tea boy and the Rolling Stones and Genesis recorded their earliest singles).
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/slums-and-squares-and-rock-nroll-3/2024-06-23/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240620T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240220T195857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195857Z
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SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Hidden Holborn and Little Italy
DESCRIPTION:Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn\, on the north-western edge of the City.\nA medieval bishop’s palace (you can still go into the crypt\, built in the 1270’s): a Tudor-era pub down a narrow alley: multiple diamond dealers and the site of a famous heist by geriatric thieves (the “diamond wheezers”): London’s first social housing project: a half-timbered Tudor hall which survived the Great Fire: we see all these on the walk.\nWe also focus on exploring “Little Italy”: not much recognised now\, in the 1800’s a few streets here were teeming with Italian immigrants\, both middle-class artisans making barometers and poorer people selling ice cream and playing barrel organs.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/living-on-the-edge-hidden-holborn-and-little-italy/2024-06-20/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240619T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240419T124054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T124054Z
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SUMMARY:Meet the Guides - Camden Tour Guides Association FREE walk
DESCRIPTION:This FREE walk is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning about becoming a qualified Camden Tour Guide\, offering an opportunity to meet existing Camden Guides\, go with them on a tour around the King’s Cross area and have a chance to talk to them about the course and what it’s like to be a tour guide in Camden today. \nThe next course starts end September 2024. If you are unable to come on this date but are interested in the course\, then please email course@camdenguides.com or visit our website for information at https://camdenguides.com/training.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/meet-the-guides-camden-tour-guides-association-free-walk-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240616T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240616T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240220T195857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195857Z
UID:10000051-1718535600-1718542800@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Hidden Holborn and Little Italy
DESCRIPTION:Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn\, on the north-western edge of the City.\nA medieval bishop’s palace (you can still go into the crypt\, built in the 1270’s): a Tudor-era pub down a narrow alley: multiple diamond dealers and the site of a famous heist by geriatric thieves (the “diamond wheezers”): London’s first social housing project: a half-timbered Tudor hall which survived the Great Fire: we see all these on the walk.\nWe also focus on exploring “Little Italy”: not much recognised now\, in the 1800’s a few streets here were teeming with Italian immigrants\, both middle-class artisans making barometers and poorer people selling ice cream and playing barrel organs.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/living-on-the-edge-hidden-holborn-and-little-italy/2024-06-16/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240615T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240615T000000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240505T191228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240505T191228Z
UID:10000071-1718409600-1718409600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Campaigning for the Abolition of Slavery: Central London Landmarks
DESCRIPTION:This walk reveals where many key London events took place in British campaigns against slavery and slave-trading between the mid-1800s and mid-1900s. Fugitive and former slaves\, white lawyers and activists\, black activists\, orators\, authors and musicians come alive in a walk from Chancery Lane to Fleet Street\, Lincoln’s Inn and Covent Garden ending at Embankment Gardens. The capture in London of escaped slaves led to legal cases espoused by campaigners. Slaves were given as gifts by West Indies travellers to wealthy Londoners who often considered them fashion-accessories. There were small communities of free blacks\, many working as servants\, and blacks made free by fighting on the British side during wars thronged to London\, some becoming beggars but others got by and even moved into the middle classes. On the walk you meet Olaudah Equiano\, James Somerset\, Granville Sharp\, Billy Waters\, Sarah Parker Remond\, Thomas Clarkson\, Mary Prince\, Ottobah Cuguano\, Elizabeth Heyrick\, Samuel Johnson\, the Fisk Jubilee Singers and more names now usually forgotten.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/campaigning-for-the-abolition-of-slavery-central-london-landmarks/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240608T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240608T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240220T195427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195427Z
UID:10000046-1717855200-1717862400@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Hampstead: the village on the hill
DESCRIPTION:You probably know Hampstead as a very attractive area of very posh houses and very famous people. But why is it so lovely to walk around? \nIt’s a lot to do with a hill which prevented major roads and any railways being built: so uniquely in London it preserves a Georgian village streetscape. It also had many springs which supported a Tudor laundry business and then a fashionable Spa attraction in the 1700’s. \nAnd its healthy air and great views have always made it an attractive place for the wealthy\, and for artists\, writers and entertainers. So there are plenty of lovely houses to see: but this walk also explores buildings such as old workhouses and bath houses which remind us that plenty of “ordinary” people lived there too! \nBut above all its a beautiful old village on a hill: do come and explore it!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/hampstead-the-village-on-the-hill/2024-06-08/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240608T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240608T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240423T093540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T093540Z
UID:10000070-1717851600-1717858800@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:London's Sex Industry and the Stage in the Long 18th Century
DESCRIPTION:Charles II lifted the Puritan ban on theatre-going\, and by 1700 London was sex-capital of Europe. This walk starts with the stage at a time when all actresses were assumed to be prostitutes and theatres a place for clients to find them. We pass through areas where street-walkers and bawdy houses were closely linked with playhouses\, and we hear about high-class masquerades where actress-courtesans like Sophia Baddely might appear. There are the bawds who kept houses\, the women who worked in them\, like Nell Gywn and Sally Salisbury\, and Harris’s List\, where they might advertise. \nWe hear about homosexual Molly Houses as well as Jelly Houses\, Coffee Houses and Bagnios. Links between corrupt government officials and criminals formed the plot of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera in 1728\, with its cast of thief-takers\, highwaymen\, pickpockets and sex workers like Jenny Diver who met in flash houses where they spoke a secret language. The unscrupulous Society for the Reform of Manners tried to close down vice\, but things began to change when Social Reformers said women selling sex were victims needing rescue. \nThe walk starts in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and passes through Covent Garden and surrounding streets like Drury Lane\, where ordinary folks lived who sold sex – orange women\, flower girls and patrons of dance halls. The underworld called this red-light area where you might meet Edgworth Bess the Hundreds of Drury.Charles II lifted the Puritan ban on theatre-going\, and by 1700 London was sex-capital of Europe. This walk starts with the stage at a time when all actresses were assumed to be prostitutes and theatres a place for clients to find them. We pass through areas where street-walkers and bawdy houses were closely linked with playhouses\, and we hear about high-class masquerades where actress-courtesans like Sophia Baddely might appear. There are the bawds who kept houses\, the women who worked in them\, like Nell Gywn and Sally Salisbury\, and Harris’s List\, where they might advertise. We hear about homosexual Molly Houses as well as Jelly Houses\, Coffee Houses and Bagnios. Links between corrupt government officials and criminals formed the plot of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera in 1728\, with its cast of thief-takers\, highwaymen\, pickpockets and sex workers like Jenny Diver who met in flash houses where they spoke a secret language. \nThe unscrupulous Society for the Reform of Manners tried to close down vice\, but things began to change when Social Reformers said women selling sex were victims needing rescue. The walk starts in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and passes through Covent Garden and surrounding streets like Drury Lane\, where ordinary folks lived who sold sex – orange women\, flower girls and patrons of dance halls. The underworld called this red-light area where you might meet Edgworth Bess the Hundreds of Drury.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/londons-sex-industry-and-the-stage-in-the-long-18th-century-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240220T200418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T200418Z
UID:10000058-1717336800-1717344000@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Slums and Squares and Rock n'Roll
DESCRIPTION:You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles’ area: Tottenham Court Rd tube\, Centrepoint\, Shaftesbury Ave\, Seven Dials…but you probably don’t know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting\, a medieval leper colony\, a failed posh residential district\, a notorious Victorian slum and the most unspoilt Georgian square in London. I would be delighted to help you explore all this (and see the street where Elton John worked as a tea boy and the Rolling Stones and Genesis recorded their earliest singles).
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/slums-and-squares-and-rock-nroll-3/2024-06-02/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240602T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240220T195857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T195857Z
UID:10000050-1717326000-1717333200@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Living on the Edge: Hidden Holborn and Little Italy
DESCRIPTION:Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn\, on the north-western edge of the City.\nA medieval bishop’s palace (you can still go into the crypt\, built in the 1270’s): a Tudor-era pub down a narrow alley: multiple diamond dealers and the site of a famous heist by geriatric thieves (the “diamond wheezers”): London’s first social housing project: a half-timbered Tudor hall which survived the Great Fire: we see all these on the walk.\nWe also focus on exploring “Little Italy”: not much recognised now\, in the 1800’s a few streets here were teeming with Italian immigrants\, both middle-class artisans making barometers and poorer people selling ice cream and playing barrel organs.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/living-on-the-edge-hidden-holborn-and-little-italy/2024-06-02/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240423T093033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T093033Z
UID:10000069-1716733800-1716739200@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Creative\, Cultural\, Colourful Fitzrovia
DESCRIPTION:Fitzrovia is an area to savour and where better to spend a Spring Sunday afternoon than exploring its elegant squares\, Georgian streets and cosmopolitan feel? See some truly outstanding architecture from the 18th\, 19th\, 20th and even 21st centuries. Walk through secret pocket parks. Hear stories of the diverse communities that have lived and worked in Fitzrovia and how it has changed and transformed over time. Learn about the recent improvements in public realm brought about by the West End Project. Meet some of the extraordinary individuals who have lived in the area including Olaudah Equiano\, Mary Prince\, Lady Ottoline Morrell\, the colourful habitués of the Fitzroy Tavern and many more. All proceeds from this walk will go towards the work of Amnesty International to fund their work supporting prisoners of conscience and campaigners for democratic rights around the world. As there is no upper limit to your contributions please contribute generously!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/creative-cultural-colourful-fitzrovia/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240319T184832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T184832Z
UID:10000064-1716728400-1716735600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Gin Lane: Thieves and Thief-takers in the Night-Cellars of Seven Dials
DESCRIPTION:Now it’s trendy and pretty\, but 18th-century Seven Dials was notorious for poverty and crime. With no organised police force\, thieves\, highwaymen and fences bribed those hired to catch them\, meeting in low-down dives where they spoke a secret language called flash. The notoriously corrupt Jonathan Wild captured thief Jack Sheppard more than once\, but Jack made dramatic escapes from prison aided by his sexworker-partner Edgworth Bess. \nWith gin selling at a penny a glass\, carousing was full-on in areas outsiders called rookeries\, thieves’ kitchens\, the Holy Land (because of the Irish presence) and\, for Drury Lane’s red-light zone\, Little Sodom. A range of middle-class spies\, social investigators\, reporters and slum-tourists came to look and sometimes participate in goings-on they found appalling and titillating. John Gay portrayed popular hero Jack Sheppard and Public Enemy Jonathan Wild in the characters of Captain MacHeath and Mr Peachum\, in The Beggar’s Opera\, London’s favourite theatre-piece throughout the 18th century. What fun!
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/gin-lane-thieves-and-thief-takers-in-the-night-cellars-of-seven-dials/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240519T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240519T153000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240416T184119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240416T184119Z
UID:10000065-1716127200-1716132600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Rebels and Blue Stockings: The New Woman in Bloomsbury
DESCRIPTION:Free-spirited and independent\, educated and uninterested in marriage and children\, the figure of the New Woman threatened conventional ideas about ideal Victorian womanhood. On this walk we will discover how Kate Greenaway\, a female artist from a working class background\, Eleanor Marx\, a regular at the British Library Reading Room and the archeologist Mary Brodrick found a life outside conventional Victorian norms. The founding of Bedford College\, led to higher education for women\, and the creation of College Hall enabled women students to study independently.\n19th century Bloomsbury was a hub of activism. Women were pushing against laws confining them to traditional roles. Pascal Theatre Company is running a two-year Lottery Heritage Funded project: Women for Women: 19th century women in Bloomsbury Current Projects – Pascal Theatre Company (pascal-theatre.com) We are celebrating those who worked at breaking down barriers and who fought to create opportunities for future generations. For more information and to get involved in research\, workshops or events contact: sally@pascal-theatre.com
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/rebels-and-blue-stockings-the-new-woman-in-bloomsbury/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240419T123755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T123755Z
UID:10000066-1715882400-1715886000@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Meet the Guides - Camden Tour Guides Association FREE walk
DESCRIPTION:This FREE walk is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning about becoming a qualified Camden Tour Guide\, offering an opportunity to meet existing Camden Guides\, go with them on a tour around the King’s Cross area and have a chance to talk to them about the course and what it’s like to be a tour guide in Camden today. \nThe next course starts end September 2024. If you are unable to come on any of our Meet the Guide dates but are interested in the course\, then please email course@camdenguides.com or visit our website for information at https://camdenguides.com/training.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/meet-the-guides-camden-tour-guides-association-free-walk/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T213952
CREATED:20240313T171600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T171600Z
UID:10000061-1715684400-1715691600@camdenguides.com
SUMMARY:Curious Camden Town
DESCRIPTION:Discover Camden Town with Elena\, a resident of 30+ years. \nIt’s lively\, it’s quirky\, it’s cosmopolitan and it’s packed full of history! Camden Town is all of these things. It’s a neighbourhood that has been shaped by many communities\, from the Irish to the Greek-Cypriots\, each leaving an indelible mark. Charles Dickens\, a very unhappy former resident\, immortalised Camden Town’s poverty\, squalor and deprivation in his literary musings. \nCamden Town was developed at the end of the 18th century with the aim to attract the wealthy middle classes\, but the arrival of the railways put a stop to those ambitious plans. On the plus side\, it now boasts the best-preserved railway heritage complex in the UK! \nOn this walk you will hear about the gin warehouses that once lined the Regent’s Canal\, the Victorian ice-wells now hidden from view and the hundreds of horses working in the goodyards. You will also discover how Camden’s numerous pubs\, ballrooms and warehouses have become a mecca for music makers and music lovers over the decades.
URL:https://camdenguides.com/event/curious-camden-town/
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