Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers.

This episode brings you an audio guided tour of Walthamstow's radical past. The tour was originally intended to be delivered in association with JoyRiders, an organisation which empowers women by introducing them to the joys of cycling.

Walthamstow is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a manor owned by an Anglo-Saxon nobleman called Earl Waltheof. It later became a rural development with a small village centre, now known as Walthamstow Village. It was popular with the gentry, who used it as a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Trailblazing Walthamstow women discussed along the route include: Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, a campaigning socialist and early member of Britain's first socialist political party, the Social Democratic Federation (SDF); Karpal Kaur Sandhu, the world's first Asian female police officer; housing activists Melanie Briggs and Nicole Holgate; Hibo Wardere, who led the fight against FGM in Britain; and more.

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.

Produced and edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com.

Further reading and links

JoyRiders London

JoyRiders video cycle tour of Walthamstow (YouTube)

A People's History of Walthamstow by James Diamond (The History Press)

May Morris: Art & Life, New Perspectives - edited by Lynn Hulse (William Morris Gallery)

Cut: One Women's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today by Hibo Wardere (Goodreads link)

Butterfields Won't Budge Facebook group

Educate to Eradicate website

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