A female-led social enterprise dedicated to diversifying local histories through walking tours of Cambridge. Tours designed by historians and researchers.

Joined March 2022
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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.
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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…
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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 ! 👣
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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!
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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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If you're in Oxford this weekend, join and donate to this fundraising tour !
📢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 ⛑️
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Statement from @UnCamProject @UnOxProject and Uncomfortable York on the Palestine Solidarity Encampments led by University students.
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You can book free tickets to the showcase next week on our website - uncomfortablecambridge.com/s…

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
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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
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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…
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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!
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🔎 What are some stories from #Cambridge history that have been lost or overlooked with time? Our next Hidden Histories Tour delves into some of them! Join us at 14:30 on 11 February to hear more! uncomfortablecambridge.com/s… #history #cambridge #tourist #LQBTQIA #Women
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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
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☀️ It was a beautiful weekend for tours with #bluesky peaking out as we walked around #cambridge discussing the more complex histories of #colonialism #inequality #race #gender #academia and #repatriation. 👟 Our Original tour runs every weekend: uncomfortablecambridge.com
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5 Activities we recommend this January 2024~
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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…

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