Women's London - in the footsteps of great lives

Rachel Kolsky is leading a guided walk through London on Sunday 6 December, starting from the Hotel Indigo Clerkenwell. It's called Women's London - in the footsteps of great lives, and it does exactly what the title says: it follows the paths of the women who have shaped the city's society, heritage and streetscape.

Kolsky is an author and a guide, and that's the right combination for a walk like this. The focus is on the impact women have had on London's history, but it's not just about the big names. It's about how that influence shows up in the city's everyday landscape — the things you walk past every day without thinking about who put them there or why they matter. The walk is built around those connections between the people and the actual streets they left their mark on.

It's a guided walk, so you'll be on your feet for the duration, moving through the city rather than sitting in a room listening to a talk. That's the whole point of it: seeing the sites in person and hearing the stories as you stand where they happened. If you've spent any time in London, you know how much of the city's history is hidden in plain sight; this is one of those things that pulls it out into the open.

The walk runs from 3:00pm to 4:30pm, so it's a ninety-minute stretch on a Sunday afternoon. It starts and finishes at the Hotel Indigo Clerkenwell, and tickets are £10.