International Women’s Day

Rebels, Rioters and Troublemakers with a Feisty Female Focus!

90 mins to 2 hours
London
Walking

We took media agency, December 19, on a walk around their Clerkenwell office. Medieval nuns, public art and Suffragettes all mixed in with London, s history. Oh, and we ended up in the pub where Marx met Lenin.

What

WHAT’S ON THE TOUR?

There are many themed days throughout the calendar year. There is a Black History month, Pride rises in June. Companies sometimes run other educational programmes to communicate the values the company holds on these important issues.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, GC has dozens of walks that tell the HERstory of women in our capital city. All our stories are location based and bespoke to you and your team.

December 19 wanted to find out about the women that had links with their own office neighbourhood. So, we led a 90-minute walk around Clerkenwell. The tour explains why Clerkenwell is where it is, it past its present, and stories that explains its past and present form.

We are talking for around 45 minutes of the tour. The group is encouraged to mingle, chat and enjoy parts of their neighbourhood they may never have seen, or walked past and never understood its significance.

On this walk we met the nuns who founded a convent here (garden fragments still remain), the Suffragettes made an appearance, and some beautiful and moving public art brough the walk alive.

‘Mother’s Ruin# – gin – inevitably introduced herself, and Bex, our Guide, gave fun facts about London’s favourite tipple. The Walks are all entertaining, as well as educational.

Where

WHAT DID WE SEE?

One of two ancient Clerkenwell prisons, where the antics of 17^th Century tearaway Moll Cutpurse are legendary.
The site of one of London’s first ‘Gin Alley’
The places where Eleanor Marx and Emeline Pankhurst railed against the patriarchy.
An ancient graveyard hosting wonders of nature. Where a Bee Hotel and a heart-rending piece of public art sit side by side
A meat market for 900 years Smithfield also has a darker side. Riots, public execution and the suppression of women
An 800-year-old house used as a film set and a place where women helped the medieval sick.
One of London’s most ancient gateways, and an Order which still lives on in modern day society.

Plus, many more fun facts, and some fun role play for our Guests.

What's included

A Professional Guide with full indemnity insurance. And a Walk bespoke to you.

Not Included

Food and Drink (but we can drop you somewhere at the end or halfway round)

Meeting Point

Wherever you like. If you are within the City, South Bank or the West End, we can pick you up from your office. We can end back where we started, or at a nominated venue such as a pub or a restaurant.

Duration

Our Walks are pitched at about 90 minutes and is normally just over a mile long. We will stop a dozen or so times and talk for a few minutes each time – so there is plenty of time to chat with each other. We can have a break halfway round for 15 or 20 minutes if you like.

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