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Excellent weather forecast for the Colne Valley this Saturday. Walk from once-industrial Hythe to once-shipbuilding Wivenhoe via now-quiet riverside, marsh and village. Footprints of London rob_s_smith eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour…

Some views from the walk this Saturday. Book at eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour…

Thanks to Londonist for the big vote of confidence. This time the popular walk on medieval working women is in the evening - this Thursday 1800/6pm in perfect weather, it looks like. W/ rob_s_smith eventbrite.co.uk/e/scratching-o…

6 women. A migrant works in a brothel, a laundress sells sex in alleyways, an alewife sells to brothels, a cook fixes travellers up with girls, a street-vendor picks pockets to avoid sexwork. Is no one free of the sex industry? The 14-yr-old maid - so far.

Saturday's walk in Rochford and along the River Roach reveals the history of folks who didn't accept the still hierarchical C of E after the Dissolution. This was a 'hotbed of dissent' in a landscape of mud and stark fields. rob_s_smith Footprints of London eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour…

In St John's Wood adventurous women who didn't marry were called Disgraceful by pious guardians of Respectable Society - eg novelist George Eliot. Nearby the 1st mediatic sex-trafficking scandal was created by WT Stead who 'bought' a girl. Footprints of London eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour…

London guide Laura Agustin (aka the Naked Anthropologist) leads a walk entitled "Primrose Hill and the Navvies Who Built Canals and Railways" on Sat 14 June at 1pm. Bookings⬇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/primrose-hil…

London Walks this week include a look at the Huguenots, London's airports, "disgraceful women", and the Roman city. Book at footprintsoflondon.com rob_s_smith Charnowalks The Naked Anthropologist

Disgraceful or Disgraced? With respectability as the standard women needing money had little choice: eventbrite.co.uk/e/disgraceful-…

White-clad purity was hardly a thing the poor could afford to aspire to, so I'm guessing the wagons were full of middle-class girls.

Or what if they preferred selling sex to scrubbing floors or selling matches? The young women in the first half of the walk certainly did, and couldn't be bothered to care that the Respectables called them Disgraceful. eventbrite.co.uk/e/disgraceful-…

We're supposed to see that the hidey-hole shows garish taste and new furnishings. Respectability is tied to Old Families not nouveau-riche young sprats making dough in the City.

Thanks to Londonist for listing a walk that centres the workers: navvies who solved problems on the ground as they dug canals and railways. 14 June. eventbrite.co.uk/e/primrose-hil…