Hackney Rebels Audio Walking Tour

Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers.

In a change from our usual format, this week Esther Freeman is joined by Simon Cole from Hackney Tours for an audio tour of Hackney in London's East End.

Once a rural idyll, the industrial revolution brought urbanisation and poverty to Hackney, leading in turn to a burgeoning radical socio-political force.

We hear about the borough's radical history from a feminist perspective, along with a few of the key figures who, from the late 1600s to the 1800s, established the dissenting and non-conformist community which has flourished in Hackney to the present day.

For show notes, reading lists and further stories about East London women, visit our website eastlondonwomen.org.uk. Or find us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram or Pinterest.

Rebel Women is part of the Women Activists of East London project, which has been developed by Share UK, a non-profit community group based in London.

Special thanks to the National Heritage Lottery Fund for their support of today's episode.

Main theme by DanoSongs. Incidental music by DanoSongs and Purple Planet Music.

Produced and edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com.

Further reading

Who were the Baader-Meinhof gang? (BBC News, 12 February 2007)

Look back in anger (Martin Bright, The Observer, 3 February 2002)

A Hackney Autobiography - inspired by Centreprise cooperative

Dalston Peace Mural unveiled after restoration works (Hackney Gazette, 18 September 2014)

Hackney Tours

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