Laura Agustín
@nakedanthropolo.bsky.social
The Naked Anthropologist: research, writing, guiding walks that focus on gender, sex, colour and class -- or in other words the folks and issues usually omitted from historical accounts and walks.
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Some young Black Britons who came on this walk were stunned to see sites of the 1981 uprising/fury/riots. Where their grandparents had stood. Surrounded by other forms of cultural resistance from blacks, gays, latinos. Walk the streets with me Sat 10 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-whit...
Black & White Resistance in Brixton: Windrush, Squats, Uprising, Gay Lib
From WWII Brixton is a centre for black Britons as well as South London fairies, squatters, poets, Latin American entrepreneurs.
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October 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Some young Black Britons who came on this walk were stunned to see sites of the 1981 uprising/fury/riots. Where their grandparents had stood. Surrounded by other forms of cultural resistance from blacks, gays, latinos. Walk the streets with me Sat 10 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-whit...
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Witchcraft and witch-hunting at one of the worst places for it in the mid-17c: Manningtree, Essex. Based on archival evidence, centres 3 poor women. 2-guide walk w @robssmith.bsky.social Sat 7 Nov last time for a year. Country & town walking, 1 hr from London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Walking Tour - Essex Estuaries - Manningtree's Infamous Witch-Craze
The Stour Estuary was one Ground Zero for cruel 17th-century witch-crazes. The walk focuses on which women were targeted, why and how.
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October 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Witchcraft and witch-hunting at one of the worst places for it in the mid-17c: Manningtree, Essex. Based on archival evidence, centres 3 poor women. 2-guide walk w @robssmith.bsky.social Sat 7 Nov last time for a year. Country & town walking, 1 hr from London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Witchcraft and witch-hunting at one of the worst places for it in the mid-17c: Manningtree, Essex. Based on archival evidence, centres 3 poor women. 2-guide walk w @robssmith.bsky.social Sat 7 Nov last time for a year. Country & town walking, 1 hr from London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Walking Tour - Essex Estuaries - Manningtree's Infamous Witch-Craze
The Stour Estuary was one Ground Zero for cruel 17th-century witch-crazes. The walk focuses on which women were targeted, why and how.
On t
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October 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Witchcraft and witch-hunting at one of the worst places for it in the mid-17c: Manningtree, Essex. Based on archival evidence, centres 3 poor women. 2-guide walk w @robssmith.bsky.social Sat 7 Nov last time for a year. Country & town walking, 1 hr from London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Some young Black Britons who came on this walk were stunned to see sites of the 1981 uprising/fury/riots. Where their grandparents had stood. Surrounded by other forms of cultural resistance from blacks, gays, latinos. Walk the streets with me Sat 10 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-whit...
Black & White Resistance in Brixton: Windrush, Squats, Uprising, Gay Lib
From WWII Brixton is a centre for black Britons as well as South London fairies, squatters, poets, Latin American entrepreneurs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Some young Black Britons who came on this walk were stunned to see sites of the 1981 uprising/fury/riots. Where their grandparents had stood. Surrounded by other forms of cultural resistance from blacks, gays, latinos. Walk the streets with me Sat 10 Oct. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-whit...
Sailors on leave are traditionally portrayed as dancing, cavorting, drinking, smoking and cuddling. Follow life ashore for seamen including Lascars and escaping slaves, and women who lodged and served them. Totally Thames Festival this Sunday @footprintsldn www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Walking Tour - Shadwell Sailortown: Pirates, Seamen, Slaves and Local Girls
From the 17th century Shadwell heaved with the licit and illicit buying and selling of everything related to shipping and sailing..
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September 24, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Sailors on leave are traditionally portrayed as dancing, cavorting, drinking, smoking and cuddling. Follow life ashore for seamen including Lascars and escaping slaves, and women who lodged and served them. Totally Thames Festival this Sunday @footprintsldn www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Jack Tar was not always a man, plenty of women joined navy or merchant or pirate ships. Here Ann Bonny + Mary Read, pirates and not hiding their sex. More girls just dressed as boys, fought in battles. Rotherhithe. #TotallyThames @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social
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September 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Jack Tar was not always a man, plenty of women joined navy or merchant or pirate ships. Here Ann Bonny + Mary Read, pirates and not hiding their sex. More girls just dressed as boys, fought in battles. Rotherhithe. #TotallyThames @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social
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Sailing ships with 100s of workers aboard, living for years away from home. Seamen - the maritime working class — men, women and children - were a first large group of wage labourers. Totally Thames Festival, Rotherhithe, Sat 19 Sept. thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/jac...
September 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Sailing ships with 100s of workers aboard, living for years away from home. Seamen - the maritime working class — men, women and children - were a first large group of wage labourers. Totally Thames Festival, Rotherhithe, Sat 19 Sept. thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/jac...
Sailing ships with 100s of workers aboard, living for years away from home. Seamen - the maritime working class — men, women and children - were a first large group of wage labourers. Totally Thames Festival, Rotherhithe, Sat 19 Sept. thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/jac...
September 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Sailing ships with 100s of workers aboard, living for years away from home. Seamen - the maritime working class — men, women and children - were a first large group of wage labourers. Totally Thames Festival, Rotherhithe, Sat 19 Sept. thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/jac...
Since history books leave them out I created 6 women who worked by the Thames in Southwark in the 14c: scullery maid, victualler, laundress, alewife, sex worker, huckster. Not outcast-victims! Active poor who made lives. Sat 12 Sept. @ThamesFestivalTrust thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/scr...
Scratching out a living by the river: The Medieval Female Proletariat @ Totally Thames festival 2026 - Thames Festival Trust
How do we know how poor women lived in the Middle Ages when historians have ignored them? Walk the river and meet 6 medieval working women.
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September 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Since history books leave them out I created 6 women who worked by the Thames in Southwark in the 14c: scullery maid, victualler, laundress, alewife, sex worker, huckster. Not outcast-victims! Active poor who made lives. Sat 12 Sept. @ThamesFestivalTrust thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/scr...
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Three Years Ago Today: @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social on her new project: maggiemcneill.com/2023/09/04/g...
Guest Columnist: Laura Agustín
Regular readers need no introduction to Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist, whose groundbreaking book Sex At the Margins introduced the term “rescue industry” and set the bar for c…
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September 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Three Years Ago Today: @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social on her new project: maggiemcneill.com/2023/09/04/g...
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To the law 'disorderly' meant vagrant, immoral, disruptive. Poor women worked in the street selling used things - clothes, wigs, pots. And they sold sex, maybe picked pockets. How else were they meant to survive with no jobs available? #TotallyThamesFestival thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
Disorderly Women of Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks @ Totally Thames festival 2026 - Thames Festival Trust
East of the Tower old-clothes sellers, sex workers, thieves and sailors' wives held sway both before and after the London Docks were built. Rag Fair extended from Tower Hill along Rosemary Lane into C...
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August 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
To the law 'disorderly' meant vagrant, immoral, disruptive. Poor women worked in the street selling used things - clothes, wigs, pots. And they sold sex, maybe picked pockets. How else were they meant to survive with no jobs available? #TotallyThamesFestival thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
To the law 'disorderly' meant vagrant, immoral, disruptive. Poor women worked in the street selling used things - clothes, wigs, pots. And they sold sex, maybe picked pockets. How else were they meant to survive with no jobs available? #TotallyThamesFestival thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
Disorderly Women of Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks @ Totally Thames festival 2026 - Thames Festival Trust
East of the Tower old-clothes sellers, sex workers, thieves and sailors' wives held sway both before and after the London Docks were built. Rag Fair extended from Tower Hill along Rosemary Lane into C...
thamesfestivaltrust.org
August 31, 2026 at 3:06 PM
To the law 'disorderly' meant vagrant, immoral, disruptive. Poor women worked in the street selling used things - clothes, wigs, pots. And they sold sex, maybe picked pockets. How else were they meant to survive with no jobs available? #TotallyThamesFestival thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
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Your fantasy of classic English countryside come true in the city. This walk talks of women's lives working at court as maids of honour, royal mistresses, queens - yes these were jobs. In Totally Thames Festival 6 Sept: thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/win... @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social
Wind in the Willows - the Thames riverside from Richmond to Twickenham @ Totally Thames festival 2026 - Thames Festival Trust
Richmond is Sir David Attenborough's favourite place on the planet, and the stretch of river to Twickenham is the very best part.
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August 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Your fantasy of classic English countryside come true in the city. This walk talks of women's lives working at court as maids of honour, royal mistresses, queens - yes these were jobs. In Totally Thames Festival 6 Sept: thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/win... @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social
Your fantasy of classic English countryside come true in the city. This walk talks of women's lives working at court as maids of honour, royal mistresses, queens - yes these were jobs. In Totally Thames Festival 6 Sept: thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/win... @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social
Wind in the Willows - the Thames riverside from Richmond to Twickenham @ Totally Thames festival 2026 - Thames Festival Trust
Richmond is Sir David Attenborough's favourite place on the planet, and the stretch of river to Twickenham is the very best part.
thamesfestivaltrust.org
August 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Your fantasy of classic English countryside come true in the city. This walk talks of women's lives working at court as maids of honour, royal mistresses, queens - yes these were jobs. In Totally Thames Festival 6 Sept: thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/win... @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social
Come walk in Wivenhoe on the River Colne, a train-hour from London. A town transformed from shipbuilding centre to 'part-suburbia, part-bohemia with a dash of academia.' Saltmarshes, quaint houses, the Essex Serpent and boats boats boats. W @robssmith.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/essex-estu...
Essex Estuaries - Wivenhoe on the Luminous Coast
Once shipbuilding centre for Colchester, now sailing-cum-commuter village, with bohemian and gay histories, a whale and The Essex Serpent.
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August 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Come walk in Wivenhoe on the River Colne, a train-hour from London. A town transformed from shipbuilding centre to 'part-suburbia, part-bohemia with a dash of academia.' Saltmarshes, quaint houses, the Essex Serpent and boats boats boats. W @robssmith.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/essex-estu...
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Lovely villagey rivery walk with spectacular history not only QEI and Dee but tapestries, potteries and breweries plus smugglers, market gardens, the Beverley Brook and the Boat Race. Midway stop in a riverside pub. What more could you want? This Saturday. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-mort...
Tudor Mortlake: Cromwell, Elizabeth, Dr Dee and the Ship Pub
Renaissance scholar John Dee's library was renowned. Other Tudor luminaries figure in Mortlake's riverine history, which ends in a Boat Race
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August 19, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Lovely villagey rivery walk with spectacular history not only QEI and Dee but tapestries, potteries and breweries plus smugglers, market gardens, the Beverley Brook and the Boat Race. Midway stop in a riverside pub. What more could you want? This Saturday. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-mort...
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Disorderly Women: Any poor women who sold rags, sex, food, drink or anything else in the old East End. Or who picked pockets or outfoxed customers or worse. Their histories told on this walk from Tower Hill to Wapping Old Stairs. 4 Sept Part of #TotallyThames thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
Disorderly Women of Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks @ Totally Thames festival 2026 - Thames Festival Trust
East of the Tower old-clothes sellers, sex workers, thieves and sailors' wives held sway both before and after the London Docks were built. Rag Fair extended from Tower Hill along Rosemary Lane into C...
thamesfestivaltrust.org
August 19, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Disorderly Women: Any poor women who sold rags, sex, food, drink or anything else in the old East End. Or who picked pockets or outfoxed customers or worse. Their histories told on this walk from Tower Hill to Wapping Old Stairs. 4 Sept Part of #TotallyThames thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
Disorderly Women: Any poor women who sold rags, sex, food, drink or anything else in the old East End. Or who picked pockets or outfoxed customers or worse. Their histories told on this walk from Tower Hill to Wapping Old Stairs. 4 Sept Part of #TotallyThames thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
Disorderly Women of Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks @ Totally Thames festival 2026 - Thames Festival Trust
East of the Tower old-clothes sellers, sex workers, thieves and sailors' wives held sway both before and after the London Docks were built. Rag Fair extended from Tower Hill along Rosemary Lane into C...
thamesfestivaltrust.org
August 19, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Disorderly Women: Any poor women who sold rags, sex, food, drink or anything else in the old East End. Or who picked pockets or outfoxed customers or worse. Their histories told on this walk from Tower Hill to Wapping Old Stairs. 4 Sept Part of #TotallyThames thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
Lovely villagey rivery walk with spectacular history not only QEI and Dee but tapestries, potteries and breweries plus smugglers, market gardens, the Beverley Brook and the Boat Race. Midway stop in a riverside pub. What more could you want? This Saturday. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-mort...
Tudor Mortlake: Cromwell, Elizabeth, Dr Dee and the Ship Pub
Renaissance scholar John Dee's library was renowned. Other Tudor luminaries figure in Mortlake's riverine history, which ends in a Boat Race
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 19, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Lovely villagey rivery walk with spectacular history not only QEI and Dee but tapestries, potteries and breweries plus smugglers, market gardens, the Beverley Brook and the Boat Race. Midway stop in a riverside pub. What more could you want? This Saturday. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-mort...
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This week @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social leads an in-depth & fascinating walk of Tudor Mortlake – featuring Cromwell, Elizabeth I, her philosopher John Dee, the Ship Pub and a boat race. Book this and other great walks at footprintsoflondon.com
August 19, 2026 at 8:28 AM
This week @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social leads an in-depth & fascinating walk of Tudor Mortlake – featuring Cromwell, Elizabeth I, her philosopher John Dee, the Ship Pub and a boat race. Book this and other great walks at footprintsoflondon.com
I have 5 walks in September's Totally Thames Festival, and they are handling the ticketing. What's On lets you choose categories of events separately; mine appear under Walks and Talks in chronological order amongst other interesting things. @robssmith.bsky.social thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/
Thames Festival Trust - What's On - Thames Festival Trust
Upcoming events and launches at Totally Thames, Rivers of the World, The Story of Water and other Thames Festival Trust projects.
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July 23, 2026 at 12:42 PM
I have 5 walks in September's Totally Thames Festival, and they are handling the ticketing. What's On lets you choose categories of events separately; mine appear under Walks and Talks in chronological order amongst other interesting things. @robssmith.bsky.social thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/
Working-class migrants do business, make families, invent objects, bring pleasures, help each other, fight each other and die together. Old Holborn/Clerkenwell show strong traces of the migrations of poorer folk 18-20c. Sat 18 July @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
July 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Working-class migrants do business, make families, invent objects, bring pleasures, help each other, fight each other and die together. Old Holborn/Clerkenwell show strong traces of the migrations of poorer folk 18-20c. Sat 18 July @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Rob Smith and I co-guide this walk about a town that was a hotbed of religious dissent from early on, located in stark and beautiful Essex marshes. Less than an hour from London. This Friday. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social @robssmith.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Walking Tour - Essex Estuaries - Rochford: A Hotbed of Dissent
Saltmarshes, weatherboard houses, Nonconformist churches, Marian martyrs, a derelict mill and abundant seabirds along the River Roach.
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June 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Rob Smith and I co-guide this walk about a town that was a hotbed of religious dissent from early on, located in stark and beautiful Essex marshes. Less than an hour from London. This Friday. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social @robssmith.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Social history of working people in London's Sailortown, encompassing Shadwell, Ratcliff and Wapping. Lascar seamen, river pirates, escaping slaves and women in all sorts of roles and jobs. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shadwell-s...
Shadwell Sailortown: Seamen, Pirates, Slaves and Local Girls
From the 17th century Shadwell heaved with ship-suppliers, sailors on leave, pirates, runaway slaves, lascars, opium-eaters and sex workers
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June 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Social history of working people in London's Sailortown, encompassing Shadwell, Ratcliff and Wapping. Lascar seamen, river pirates, escaping slaves and women in all sorts of roles and jobs. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shadwell-s...
Most folks know only one abolitionist's name, MP Wm Wilberforce, who sponsored a bill in parliament. But in order for it to pass decades later many others whose names are now omitted from history books worked tirelessly to change minds about fundamental values. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-century-...
May 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Most folks know only one abolitionist's name, MP Wm Wilberforce, who sponsored a bill in parliament. But in order for it to pass decades later many others whose names are now omitted from history books worked tirelessly to change minds about fundamental values. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-century-...