Walking Through 2024: The Year in Review

What an incredible year of walking 2024 was. From the ancient Black Path linking Walthamstow to Shoreditch to the various secrets of the City of London, the London Loop and the Capital Ring, the Suffolk and Sussex coasts, the Essex and Buckinghamshire countryside, the Eastern edge of London and the inner West at Paddington. I walked Roman Stane Street and Tudor London, lost rivers at Islington, Clerkenwell, Kensal Green to Chelsea and so much more. And we even went on a trip to Northampton to see the great Alan Moore with Iain Sinclair.
Thank you so much for all your support throughout the year. Here’s to a great year of walks in 2025.

Some Talks and Events in 2024

John Rogers and Iain Sinclair at Hatchards Piccadilly
John Rogers and Iain Sinclair at Hatchards Piccadilly
Patreon Walk – February 2024
What on Earth is Psychogeography at the Wanstead Tap
What on Earth is Psychogeography at the Wanstead Tap
Tell Tale Rooms with Andrew Kötting at UCA Farnham
Lost Rivers of Waltham Forest talk at Fillebrook
John Rogers, Aland Moore Iain Sinclair Swedenborg House, May 2024
Photo by Mark Riley
Nation Park City talk – Fleet Street – photo by https://www.instagram.com/liams_art
Brilliant artwork by Liam O’Farrell from the event
Pariah Genius talk with Iain Sinclair at the Wanstead Tap – photo by https://www.instagram.com/tanianxt
Dalloway Day talk with Matthew Beaumont at Hatchards Bookshop Piccadilly
Philley Brook / Fillybrook Walk with Compiler for Beneath our Footsteps
Cranbrook Walk Valentines Park for Transition Ilford – watch video here
Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival – Sebald Rings of Saturn talk
Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival – Sebald Rings of Saturn talk
The Black Path launch at Broadway Bookshop
The Black Path Talk Wanstead Tap.
Lost World of the River Roding screening at A House for Artists, Barking
In conversation with Iain Sinclair at Wanstead Fringe Festival

The Black Path talk at Wanstead Tap

Photo via The Amorous Humphrey Plugg on Twitter https://x.com/SumsionMichael

Fantastic night at brilliant Wanstead Tap in collaboration with the essential Newham Bookshop to talk about my new publication with Three Imposters – The Black Path.
Hopefully be announce my next publication with Three Imposters in the New Year.

A video of the full talk is available on my Patreon page (exclusive to Radical Ramblers) and to YouTube Members.

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The Black Path – launch at Broadway Bookshop

Writer John Rogers at Broadway Bookshop Hackney for the launch of The Black Path

Last Thursday, 24th October, saw the launch of my text, The Black Path, as part of the London Adventures series at The Broadway Bookshop published by Three Imposters. It was a perfect place for the launch sat right on the course of the Black Path in Broadway Market, Hackney. I’d walked this ancient drovers path back in January for a YouTube video, and writing this publication gave me an opportunity to dig deeper in the rich history of this storied thoroughfare that runs from Walthamstow to Shoreditch, and then along Old Street to Smithfield.

The Black Path by John Rogers, published by Three Imposters
The Black Path by John Rogers, published by Three Imposters at Broadway Bookshop, Hackney
Writer John Rogers at Broadway Bookshop Hackney for the launch of The Black Path
Writer John Rogers at Broadway Bookshop Hackney for the launch of The Black Path
Writer John Rogers at Broadway Bookshop Hackney for the launch of The Black Path
The Black Path by John Rogers, published by Three Imposters at Broadway Bookshop, Hackney
The Three Imposters and John Rogers, Broadway Market Hackney
With the Three Imposters before the launch outside the Pie & Mash shop mentioned in the booklet (now an opticians
St Leonards Church Shoreditch at the start of a walk along the Black Path to Broadway Bookshop
St Leonards Church Shoreditch at the start of a walk along the Black Path to Broadway Bookshop
Writer John Rogers at Broadway Bookshop Hackney for the launch of The Black Path

You can buy The Black Path here directly from Three Imposters

The Black Path – launch events

I’m doing two events to launch my new publication – The Black Path

24th October 7pm – The Broadway Bookshop, Hackney – RSVP books@broadwaybookshophackney.com

21st November 7.30pm – The Wanstead Tap – book via the Eventbrite link below:

Register on Eventbrite

The Black Path is published by Three Imposters as part of the London Adventures series.

The shades of long-dead writers in the London streets, random meetings, quests and journeys striking lines across the city, the past seeping through the pavements, the unexpected erupting through the fabric of everyday life, glimpses of the fantastic in the ordinary: London Adventures can be any or all of these.
John Rogers’ contribution to the series is a psychogeographical ramble along the Black Path, an old drovers and porters road from Walthamstow to the markets in the City, featuring pie and mash shops and pubs, Francesca’s Cafe and the Battle of Broadway Market, the London bodysnatchers, the violent origins of Haggerston Park and much, much more from the colourful history of an ancient route.
Previous writers in the series include Iain Sinclair and Xiaolu Guo.
Limited numbered edition of 250 copies.
Price £10.00
Published by Three Impostors

Author John Rogers at the London Adventures launch, London Welsh Centre 29th March 2023
London Adventures launch London Welsh Centre 29th March 2023

National Park City – Walking Week Talk

John Rogers illustration by Liam O'Farrell
Painting by Liam O’Farrell https://www.liamofarrell.com/2024/05/john-rogers-talk/

Back in early May I had the pleasure of giving a talk about my new book, Welcome to New London – journeys and encounters in the post-Olympic city for London National Park City as part of Walking Week. The venue was a disused chain coffee shop on Fleet Street, just yards away from where the River Fleet flows beneath Farringdon Road. It was a great evening.

The wonderful artist Liam O’Farrell attended and created the fantastic painting you see above (ok, I’m biased) and wrote a blog post about the event and the book. I’m enormously grateful to Liam for both. You can read Liam’s post here and visit his online gallery of London artworks here.

National Park City event Fleet Street
National Park City event Fleet Street