A female-led social enterprise dedicated to diversifying local histories through walking tours of Cambridge. Tours designed by historians and researchers.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Joined March 2022
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📣 Join the launch event: Catalysts for Decolonisation, 29 Nov from 4-6pm
Hear about the vision of the lab and join a community of students, scholars and citizens interested in questions of empire, coloniality, race, decolonisation and anti-imperialism
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/4478…
ALT Catalysts for Decolonisation logo with broken chain link.
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Throwback to 3 weeks ago, when we joined the brilliant @HistoryLabPlus ECR conference, to share our work in York (and in other cities with @UnOxProject and @UnCamProject ) with a stellar lineup of scholars and heritage practitioners!
Anna Hill is now sharing the principles and practice behind the brilliant @UnYorkProject tours: discussion-based, educational, barrier-breaking, promoting critical analysis…
#historylabplus2024
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This tour will explore how Oxford University was shaped by the imperial project and how its graduates went on to gain powerful positions in the Empire 🌐
The tour will last 1 hour. We will walk no more than 2km, and finish at the current student protest site run by @OxAct4Pal✊
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Statement from @UnCamProject @UnOxProject and Uncomfortable York on the Palestine Solidarity Encampments led by University students.
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Students from Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts @csvpa have taken over the Museum!
On until 26th March, Inspired by Uncomfortable Cambridge is mixed media art in response to our collections & the @UnCamProject tour.
festival.cam.ac.uk/events/in…
#CamFest
ALT Board game with male and female scientists. A turned over card says ‘Sorry, you have not received the full amount of credit for your discovery of fossils. Move 2 steps back. - Mary Anning’.
ALT Projection on a wall above a telescope in a museum gallery showing a woman’s body superimposed onto a historic drawing of a woman lying down and the title ‘Hysteria’.
ALT Art made up of several acrylic sheets, each with a different layer of a dissected frog.
ALT On the left, mounted on a mannequin, a white lab coat with pictures of female scientists. On the right, mounted in a glass panel, a red and white print showing female scientists.
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We do tours in England and talk a lot about memorials and monuments, but our co-director @OliviaDurandIRL 's research is all about #Ukraine's history and heritage! Go check her work on Catherine II's statue, which stood in Odesa until December 2022:
contestedhistories.org/wp-co…
ALT Cover picture of a book or article with a photograph of a statue on a plinth and text
Uncomfortable Cambridge retweeted
The recording of this seminar is now available online history.ac.uk/podcasts/produ… Many thanks once again to @UnOxProject @OliviaDurandIRL Lucy Haddock-Williams, @IPUPYORK & @lizzyaspencer
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If you missed the lecture last week - you can listen to it now online! #recording #available #historical #tours #Oxfordtours #Uncomfortable #Cities
The recording of this seminar is now available online history.ac.uk/podcasts/produ… Many thanks once again to @UnOxProject @OliviaDurandIRL Lucy Haddock-Williams, @IPUPYORK & @lizzyaspencer
Uncomfortable Cambridge retweeted
Brilliant seminar this evening co-hosted with @IPUPYORK, featuring the work of @UnOxProject @UnYorkProject & @UnCamProject: exploring historical discomfort through uncomfortable city walking tours. Lots in the room and over 90 online!
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If you are a Spanish speaker, have a read of this article by @mariaramirezNY, who has attended a few of our @UnOxProject tours! – at Oxford, England
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For our #Spanish patrons. Here is an article talking about our tours: eldiario.es/internacional/ox…
@UnCamProject @UnYorkProject
Send this to someone who would appreciate reading about our work in Spanish! #uncomfortabletours #oxford #language #Tours #Featured
Uncomfortable Cambridge retweeted
York Has a fascinating and diverse history - learn something new on our Uncomfortable York Tour this weekend! Saturday at 13:00.
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In case you missed it, we were on @cambridge105 yesterday to give you some more previews of what's coming up at #OpenCambridge 2023: bit.ly/441wyxz
@stjohnslibcam @pembroke1347 @UnCamProject @Eddington_Camb @cambridge_astro @WolfsonCam @WolfsonLibrary @CamBuddhist
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#uncomfortablecambridge @UnCamProject excellent tour of the challenging history of Cambridge colleges and dons, discussing transatlantic chattel slavery, discredited concepts on racial hierarchies, concentration camps and discussion on repatriation and restitution – at London, England
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Commemorating Anne Lister: Lesbian icon or enemy of the working class?
Check out our new blog post exploring the legacy of Georgian industrialist Anne Lister and the contentious ways we choose to remember her here in York.
Check it out ⬇️
'Gentleman Jack' is bringing a mini-boom in LGBTQ tourism to York, but one aspect of the real Anne Lister was far from gentle: her ruthless exploitation of child labour. We explore the balance between the personal and the political in how she's remembered.
uncomfortableoxford.com/post…
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In 2016 York was granted the title ‘City of Sanctuary’. But in 1190 some 150 Jewish people died in a pogrom in York. How is this legacy remembered and does it have consequences to this day?Find out more in this article by Uncomfortable York's Sophia Nicol: uncomfortableoxford.com/post…
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Today York aspires to 'City of Sanctuary' status, but once it was far from a refuge for its Jewish inhabitants. Sophia Nicol explores a shocking medieval incident and asks how we can better remember the full complexity of the city's Jewish history.
uncomfortableoxford.com/post…
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🌟 @MigrationUK are also hosting 'Windrush 75: Legacies Festival' to commemorate this year’s anniversary!
This day-long festival will feature music, performance, storytelling, interactive talks, workshops and more 🙌
📅 Saturday 24 June 2023
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Just finished @UnCamProject’s tour of @WhippleMuseum - what a great initiative, really interesting way to spend the afternoon with our knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide. Will definitely be booking onto one of your other tours!
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After a fantastic fully-booked launch over two weekends as part of @YorkFestofIdeas, the Uncomfortable York tour will be running on Saturdays and Sundays at 2PM from the start of July.
Tickets are available to book now from uncomfortableyork.com!
