Talks

Radical Walk in the Cemetery Park

Name: Radical Walk in the Cemetery Park
Start: 2026-10-01T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-01T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Radical Walk in the Cemetery Park

Time6pm

DateThu 1 Oct

This is the 90th year of Cable Street. In 1936, thousands of East Enders — Jewish families, Irish dockers, trade unionists, communists and neighbours who'd simply had enough — filled the streets and stopped Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists from marching through. They shall not pass. We're marking it with a walk through the Cemetery Park, among the people who made that kind of resistance possible. The walk sets off at 6pm and takes about an hour on the main paths. At 7pm we'll head to the Soanes Centre for a short talk and an open discussion. The East End's radicals are buried here in their thousands. Eliza Martin — buried under her married name, Elizabeth Best — was 19 when she sat on the five-woman strike committee that took on Bryant and May in the 1888 Matchwomen's strike, and won. Chris Braithwaite, born in Barbados in 1885, was a sailor, a docker, an activist and one of the leading Black political voices in 1930s Britain. Will Crooks went from the Poplar workhouse to become the first Labour mayor in London and MP for Woolwich. Clara Grant, a headteacher in Bow, founded the Fern Street Settlement and was known across the East End as the Bundle Woman of Bow. Because...

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