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Radical London Tours 

New for 2022 Catford - a river runs through it. Dogs and cats and crime and film. Not to mention a lost football stadium and velodrome. This tour reclaims a lost history of a crossing point of the Ravensbourne and aims to help people rethink a future Catford. Delivered as part of the MA in Architecture course University of Westminster.  

Herzen and the radical tradition article. Sean is a leading researcher into the life of Alexander Herzen who lived and worked in London and had a printing press in Bloomsbury. There is an article here by Maria Kruglyak in Russian Art and Culture online on the life of Herzen by Maria Kruglyak featuring Sean's work.

 

Russian Revolutionaries Russian Revolutionaries, Merchant Adventurers and Peter the Great in Greenwich. Greenwich's role in 200 years of Russian history as the capital of Britain's maritime empire.

REVOLUTION, REFORMATION AND UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS . Walking tour of historic London’s most politically radical district – Clerkenwell – with London Blue Badge Guide, Sean Mitchell. Tour will marks the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, and we will see where both these worlds meet.

War & Peace in Waterloo a walk through Waterloo's historical development as a response to war and peace in her architecture and the literary character of Frankenstein's monster!

 

Hammersmith Radicals & Revolutionaries tour a walk that takes in escaped slaves, executed anti royalist rebels, William Morris, Irish republicans and Russian revolutionaries dotted throughout the charming riverfront and backstreets of Hammersmith.

 

Architecture Tours 

The City of London Architectural Melting Pot of the World: the development of English Baroque from St. Paul's Cathedral to Christchurch Spitalfields with Gothic Revival, Hi-Tech and late Arts & Crafts in between.

Romantics, Rationalists & Housing Reformers from Lambeth North to the Borough through Blake's poetic Eden to Octavia Hill's garden suburb.

 

Classical Future or Gothic Past? from Whitehall to Victoria to decide if London is a classical city looking to the future or a Gothic city living in the past

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