Wednesday 1 Oct – Serendipity in the Rabenhof
A walk in and around the Rabenhof estate in Vienna. The link in the title gives some detail about the estate. Use the link below for the route of the walk.

Sunday 28 Sept – Rabenhof Vienna; A Radical Walk
A walk in and around the Rabenhof estate in Vienna. The link in the title describes the route of the walk and some of the things you’ll find.

Sunday 31 August – Karl Marx & the Mystery of Hans Rockle
A walk around Soho exploring commodity production

Thursday 14 August – Housing is More than Houses
A walk from the Bishopsgate Institute to the Boundary Estate

Sunday 27 July – Eleanor Marx & Shelley’s Socialism
A walk around Bloomsbury tracing the life and times of Eleanor Marx

Thursday 10 July – Empire of Corruption
A walk through the City of London staring up at tall buildings and where the beach lies hid beneath the street.

Saturday 21 June – Take to the Streets: A Radical London Walk
A walk from Holloway Road to Pentonville Prison as part of the rs21 Festival of the Oppressed

Sunday 8 June – Where are the Socialist Voices?
A walk as part of the London Festival of Architecture from the Millbank Estate to Churchill Gardens. It asked why there don’t seem to be any socialist voices involved in helping to practically sort out Britain’s housing mess.

Sunday 1 June – No More Buildings!
A walk as part of the London Festival of Architecture. There are a huge number of empty buildings in London. And all over Britain. I now wish I’d called it something else as it sounds a bit strident.

Thursday 1 May – London May Day
A walk from Tower Hill, through Wapping to the former print works of News International

Monday 17 Feb – Housing is More than Houses
A talk for the London Socialist Historians Group

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Thursday 5 Dec – Capital, Consumerism & Christmas Lights
From Fortnum & Mason to Selfridges on a rainy night of Christmas lights

Thursday 12 Sept – The Secret Life of the Office
Exploring the streets of the City and the money-power

Sunday 17 Aug – Moneybags must be so lucky
Through the wealth and power of Mayfair

Sunday 28 July – Radical Folkestone Walk
A walk along the Leas on a sunny day with the sea by our side, and history all around

Sunday 21 July – Marx, Engels & the Mystery of Hans Rockle
The alienation of the person through commodity production in Soho

Thursday 27 June 2024 – Housing is More than Houses
A walk around the public housing of south St Pancras. Part of the London Festival of Architecture

Wednesday 19 June 2024 – Red Vienna: Housing Re-imagined
A talk as part of the London Festival of Architecture

Saturday 1 June 24 – Housing is more than Houses
Based on Catherine Bauer’s book Modern Housing. Part of the London Festival of Architecture

Thursday 16 May 24 – Canary Wharf & Marx’s Literary Style
Through the glass maze of the Isle of Dogs with Ludovico Silva as our guide

Thursday 18 April – Praed Street and the Liberty Tree
Paddington and Praed Street area based on EP Thompson’s book The Making of the English Working Class

Sunday 3 March 2024 – Left Culture Club
A talk about Red Vienna for the Left Culture Club

Radical Walks & Talks Archive 2023

Thursday 7 Dec – Red Vienna: When Taxes Paid for Housing
A talk about Red Vienna at the May Day Rooms

Wednesday 29 Nov – Red Vienna: A Primer
A talk about Red Vienna at Charles Holland Architects Studios

Sunday 27 Aug – Radical Dover Walk 2
A walk along the seafront which including visiting all the sunken gardens. Part of the ‘You Can Reach the World From Dover’ festival

Sunday 19 Aug – London Utopias
A walk around Bloomsbury in search of utopia

Wednesday 9 Aug – Dover Fictions
Music, readings, writings based on the town of Dover, with Travis Elborough and Charles Holland. Part of the ‘You Can Reach the World From Dover’ festival

Sunday 6 Aug – Radical Dover Walk 1
Part of the ‘You Can Reach the World from Dover’ festival

Thursday 3 Aug – Communism in Exile
Marx, Engels, Wilhelm Liebknecht and others in London exile

Saturday 1 July – The Theory of the Four Movements and the Expansion of Capital
A walk around Nine Elms and Battersea power station exploring the ideas of Charles Fourier. Among other things.

Thursday 22 June – The Secret Life of the Office
A walk through the City commissioned by the Bishopsgate Institute

Sunday 11 June – Friedrich Engels, Catherine Bauer and the Housing Question
A walk from Soho to Bloomsbury exploring ‘the housing question’. Part of the London Festival of Architecture

Saturday 22 Apr – Radical Folkestone
A perambulation along the Leas, the discovery of overshore banking investment in the town’s housing, some arts & crafts buildings and some readings from HG Wells

Sunday 2 Apr – Radical Liverpool Street
From Liverpool Street Station to the Lloyds Building with a lot of finance capital inbetween

Radical Walks & Talks Archive 2022

Sun 11 Dec – Radical Clerkenwell – it was the coldest day of the year
Sun 30 Oct – Gods, Monsters & Gothic Marxism – part of the Cut-Through Collective Halloween
Sun 20 Aug – Radical Ramsgate – Marx & Engels by the seaside, Pugin’s house and church
Sun 14 Aug – Radical Bermondsey – the legacy of docks, dock work and Ada and Alfred Salter
Sun 31 Jul – Radical Fitzrovia – this was a re-run of an earlier walk -smaller but equal fun
Sat 16 Jul – Radical Battersea – the hottest day of the year; some coolness by the river
Sat 12 June -Radical Fitzrovia – Heals, anarchists, communards and Bohemians
Sat 21 May – Radical Ramsgate – the Marx family and their friend Engels on the coast
Sat 9 Apr – Radical Pimlico – this was an early experiment

Sometime in the summer of 2021 the first Radical Walk took place. It was inspired by someone suggesting that I do such a thing. And it seemed a good way to re-connect with people after lock-down.

Over 60 people turned up. Three joined along the way.

If you want to find out more about Radical Walks use the contact link at the top of the page.

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