A female-led social enterprise dedicated to diversifying local histories through walking tours of Cambridge. Tours designed by historians and researchers.
Our tours and wider work aims and values safe, #productive discussions, even when those discussions are uncomfortable. We encourage joint, collective #advocacy in support of #change, recognising that none of us can be free from the impacts of #oppression until all of us are.
📣 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.
This is such a great read on #access and the politics of space! Cambridge's unequal urban geography is something that shapes how we develop the route of our guided walks, and the source of many fascinating and #uncomfortable conversations with our tour participants ! 👣
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
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✊
📢THIS SATURDAY 8 JUNE: Join us for a special Oxford and Empire Tour in Support of Aid to Palestine!
🔗: uncomfortableoxford.com/tour…
All proceeds will be donated to the emergency fund of @savechildrenuk, an international aid charity bringing supplies to those suffering in Gaza ⛑️
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.
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.
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
Check out this event on #Cambridge's Spinning house and the uni's history of arresting women for street walking in the 19th c - literally regulating women's presence in public space ls! We talk about it in our #HiddenHistories tour but Caroline Biggs wrote a whole book on it!
In an ancient city like #Cambridge, heritage is often hidden within everyday spaces. 🏛
Here you see the old Free library, now converted into a @gigglingsquid. Learn more on the Picturing Cambridge website run by @museumofcambridge !
#history#cambridgeshire
ALT A group of tour attendeees stand outside the red brick buildings of St. Catz College in Cambridge listening to an Uncomfortable Cambridge tour guide. It is a nice day with blue skys and beautiful clouds.
This tour runs once a month and is a great way to stay warm in January while learning something new!
Next Tour: 19 Jan @ 14:30PM
BOOK: uncomfortablecambridge.com/s…