History from Below walks

History from Below walks Emanuela — qualified guide & founder of History From Below. I lead walking tours exploring London’s social history, revealing hidden lives and places.

A few reviews from the past week! JOIN ME on the last Dark Side of Clerkenwell walk for 2025, Saturday morning 29th Nove...
24/11/2025

A few reviews from the past week! JOIN ME on the last Dark Side of Clerkenwell walk for 2025, Saturday morning 29th November 🔗 LINK IN BIO

Have you ever heard of Mary Woolaston – better known as Black Mary?In 17th-century Clerkenwell, local lore tells of a fr...
24/11/2025

Have you ever heard of Mary Woolaston – better known as Black Mary?

In 17th-century Clerkenwell, local lore tells of a free Black woman who tended a healing well on the edge of the countryside. Her story, like so many others, has been pushed to the margins – half-remembered, half-erased.

As part of the Black Mary Project (supported by the Mayor of London and Arts Council England), I’ve been researching Mary, the well that bore her name, and what her story reveals about early Black Britons, water and belonging in early modern London. On my upcoming walk “Water, Water Everywhere”, I’ll take you to the site where Black Mary’s well once stood and share what we can – and can’t – trace in the records.

Along the way we’ll follow the vanished River Fleet, visit the world of holy wells, monastic houses, breweries, distilleries, spas and pleasure gardens, and explore how water shaped work, faith and pleasure in Clerkenwell.

📍 Starts: Farringdon Station
🏁 Ends: Sadler’s Wells
⏱ Duration: 2 hours

Come walk the streets where Black Mary once drew water and help keep her memory flowing.

👉 Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/water-water-everywhere-walking-tour-tickets-1964414323121?aff=oddtdtcreator

Picture: Wenceslaus Hollar,1645

My current walk: "The Dark Side of Clerkenwell" Interested in London's Social History? Join me on a walk through Clerken...
14/11/2025

My current walk: "The Dark Side of Clerkenwell"

Interested in London's Social History? Join me on a walk through Clerkenwell’s dark past: prisons, paupers, highwaymen, gangs and tales that shaped one of London’s most dangerous districts in the 19th Century.

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