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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 13h

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...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 13h

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...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 14h

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...

Walking Tour - 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.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 14h

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...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 14h

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...

Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 14h

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...

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.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 15h

The route uses streets the girls 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. From Nobodies to Founding Mothers 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.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 5d

Doré came to London to work on a book The London Pilgrimage. He drew all sorts, depicting the poor as diverse and busy, whereas his rich look bland and dull. Odd commentary for a tourist? He spent a lot of time looking and his point of view shines through. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 5d

No wonder so many risked the death sentence for stealing. No wonder Jack Sheppard was a popular hero for escaping from the clink many times and helping partner Bess escape too. No wonder thief-taker Jonathan Wild was hated, his execution celebrated. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 5d

Poor wages didn't reach to renting rooms, so dosshouses were essential. You could cook if you had ingredients and you could drink and smoke. It was close social life. Later you slept on a rope or sitting up unless you had extra pence to lie on the floor. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 5d

Living in cellars appalled Victorian reformers who saw them as fit for worms, not humans. Gustave Doré drew cellar-entries to shoe-shops (Doré wasn't appalled). You can see entries to cellars on surviving 18c facades in Tower Court. This Saturday 11 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 15d

Thief and escape-artist Jack Sheppard spars with corrupt thief-taker Jonathan Wild in poor streets and night-cellars thronged with whores, spies and slum-tourists in a Beggar's Opera of a walk. 11 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

Gin Lane: Thieves and Thief-takers in the Night-Cellars of St Giles

Thief and escape-artist Jack Sheppard sparred with thief-taker Jonathan Wild in streets thronged with gin-sellers, sex workers and beggars.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 5d

Living in cellars appalled Victorian reformers who saw them as fit for worms, not humans. Gustave Doré drew cellar-entries to shoe-shops (Doré wasn't appalled). You can see entries to cellars on surviving 18c facades in Tower Court. This Saturday 11 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 15d

Hogarth shows the Idle Apprentice, fallen into bad company (a prostitute), selling stolen goods to a fence in a drinking cellar. Girlfriend is grassing him up to a thief-taker because Hogarth couldn't imagine the sex worker could be loyal. Murder at lower right. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

Gin Lane: Thieves and Thief-takers in the Night-Cellars of St Giles

Thief and escape-artist Jack Sheppard sparred with thief-taker Jonathan Wild in streets thronged with gin-sellers, sex workers and beggars.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 15d

Thief and escape-artist Jack Sheppard spars with corrupt thief-taker Jonathan Wild in poor streets and night-cellars thronged with whores, spies and slum-tourists in a Beggar's Opera of a walk. 11 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gin-lane-t...

Gin Lane: Thieves and Thief-takers in the Night-Cellars of St Giles

Thief and escape-artist Jack Sheppard sparred with thief-taker Jonathan Wild in streets thronged with gin-sellers, sex workers and beggars.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 25d

heavenly, I'll have it in the background as folks arrive.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 25d

Yes I know it. My navvies walk begins with the building of the Regent's Canal, earlier, and proceeds to railways, both constructions having determined what the area of Primrose Hill came to look like.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 25d

Slagging off the 60s is now common, as if the lack of revolution were proof of failure. I value highly what I learned and was part of and still drives me. I'm surrounded by people who are shocked by conservatve backward thinking, but that now seems the norm to me and we the odd ones out.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 25d

For a long time I believed in 'progress', now I see the zeitgeist I lived as a blip in the radar as things roll backwards.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 25d

Are they claiming delicate sons of the conferacy did the digging? Fat chance. Before this historians might give them a mention but gave the engineers most of the credit.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks to @londonist.com for listing this Sunday's walk. For Railway200 I celebrate folks who did the hard graft, called diggers, miners, cutters, bankers and navigators for digging navigation canals. By hand. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · 27d

In celebrations of the invention of the modern railway, engineers get the credit. What about the navvies who not only dug but helped find solutions to problems and obstacles? At Primrose Hill you see what they did up close, including the Regent's Canal. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/primrose-h...

Primrose Hill and the Navvies Who Built the Railways

Primrose Hill was born when navvies dug out the land by hand, bringing grime, racket, hard drinking and what some called Moral Depravity.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · Sep 11

That was among my sources.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks @londonist.com for listing a walk in a part of the East End few Londoners know, from Tower Hill SE to the river to hear about poor working women selling old clothes, tools, food and sex to sailors and dockworkers. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tumult-of-...

Tumult of Women - Rag Fair, Rosemary Lane, Brothels and the Docks

East of the Tower rag-sellers, sex workers, thieves and so-called witches held sway in an area flattened by building the 1805 dock.

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Laura Agustín @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks @londonist.com for listing a walk in a part of the East End few Londoners know, from Tower Hill SE to the river to hear about poor working women selling old clothes, tools, food and sex to sailors and dockworkers. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tumult-of-...

Tumult of Women - Rag Fair, Rosemary Lane, Brothels and the Docks

East of the Tower rag-sellers, sex workers, thieves and so-called witches held sway in an area flattened by building the 1805 dock.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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