Rebels and Radicals and a brief history of Activism

Much of England’s social history can be seen within London. One area that has attracted generations of alternative thinkers and liberal idealists is Smithfield and Clerkenwell. From medieval markets and plague pits to sites of macabre execution, along the old droving roads with links to the crusades, and the Rookery an infamous Victorian slum where the first sweatshops grinded, to the green which influenced both Dickens and Lenin, we weave a route through an area unique in our nations history.