July 2025 - Herstorical Tours
- Wi Finchley
- Jun 18
- 1 min read
Maria Beadell of Herstorical Tours will be walking us around Southwark for our 9th July meeting, bringing to life the sordid and tragic history of the women who inhabited this neighbourhood through history.
For over two millennia ‘south of the river’ has always been a wild place of debauchery and vice. From the Roman occupation, through to the Medieval and Elizabethan eras and right up to the 20th century, Southwark has rightly earned its reputation as a "Foul dene, rather than a Fairy garden" (unknown, 17th century).
We know the men behind this history: Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake, King Henry VIII, the Bishops of Winchester.
But what about the women?' (Herstroical Tours).
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