# Event Details - **Event Name**: Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 03:30 pm - **Event Description**: East of the Tower old-clothes sellers, sex workers, thieves and sailors' wives held sway both before and after the London Docks were built.About this EventWomen reigned in Rag Fair, which extended from Tower Hill along Rosemary Lane into Cable Street in the 17th- to 19th-century parish of Stepney. The permanent market centred near Wellclose Square, but many vendors were mobile, locating anywhere they could.Samuel Pepys called Damaris Page 'the most Famous Bawd in the Towne'. Poor women worked in her houses, sold old clothes, shoes and hats and thieved, alternating occupations according to need. In her brothel near the Navy Victualling Office, Page allowed press-gangs in for a fee, and as reward The Bawdy-House Riots of 1668 targeted her. She became a property-speculator and in her will left tuppence apiece to 'the Sisterhood' (of whores) to buy thread to mend their stockings.Some of the back-alleys still wend their ways towards the first London Docks, the building of which in 1805 razed the area to make basins for sailing ships, surrounded by high walls to keep out river-pirates. Around the dock walls a myriad of businesses set up to service ships and sailors. Tobacco was a major import, its wharf preserved and accessible, along with two tall ships in replica.The artist JMW Turner kept a house in Wapping for weekends with his longtime love, Sophia Booth. Two local women accused of witchcraft in the 1600s lived nearby.Fans of Call the Midwife (television series and the memoir it's based on) will be interested to see where Mary escaped from one of the notorious brothel-cafés of Cable Street in the era of WWII bomb-sites and decline. Where we walk was part of the midwives' area of remit in Stepney.We end near Wapping Station with numerous pubs to unwind in. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/af9bebb0-f887-11f0-b5db-bf22a0ebdfc2-rimg-w493-h740-dc291f1a-gmir.jpg is Laura's longtime blog, now dedicated to historical walks that highlight issues of Gender, Sex and Class. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/aff27020-f887-11f0-9f04-cbd844a8a117-rimg-w987-h740-dc17161a-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/disorderly-women-livelihoods-in-rag-fair-bawdy-houses-and-the-docks/100001981238418443 - **Event Categories**: workshops, art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.5, max: 17.5, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Outside Tower Hill Station - **lat**: 51.5100806 - **long**: -0.07503660000000001 - **full address**: Outside Tower Hill Station, Tower Hill Station, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/331f01fbe40dd89cf1be0b26df79f43964a1bef2be16aed721849961054c9e2f-rimg-w630-h803-dca59175-gmir.jpg?v=1769232385 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks being held? - **A:** Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks takes place on Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 03:30 pm at Outside Tower Hill Station, Tower Hill Station, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks? - **A:** Tickets for Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks are priced at GBP 18 per person. Here's a full breakdown of available ticket types:Ticket TypePriceAvailabilityGeneral AdmissionGBP 18Available - **Q**: Who is organizing Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks? - **A:** Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks is organized by Laura Agustín. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Disorderly Women - Livelihoods in Rag Fair, Bawdy Houses and the Docks", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/331f01fbe40dd89cf1be0b26df79f43964a1bef2be16aed721849961054c9e2f-rimg-w630-h803-dca59175-gmir.jpg?v=1769232385", "startDate": "2026-03-09", "endDate": "2026-03-09", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/disorderly-women-livelihoods-in-rag-fair-bawdy-houses-and-the-docks/100001981238418443", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Outside Tower Hill Station", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Tower Hill Station", "postalCode": "EC3N 4DJ", "addressLocality": "London", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.5100806", "longitude": "-0.07503660000000001" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "East of the Tower old-clothes sellers, sex workers, thieves and sailors' wives held sway both before and after the London Docks were built.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-09", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-09", "validFrom": "2026-04-09", "lowPrice": "17.50", "highPrice": "17.50", "price": "17.50", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/disorderly-women-livelihoods-in-rag-fair-bawdy-houses-and-the-docks/100001981238418443" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-09", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-09", "url": "https://allevents.in/london/disorderly-women-livelihoods-in-rag-fair-bawdy-houses-and-the-docks/100001981238418443", "price": "17.50", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Laura Agustn", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/laura-agustín/21984814", "description": "Laura Agustín has been a writer, researcher and critical historian — not to say rebel —all her life. She has been a Londoner since the 1960s, although she has lived in numerous countries. Author of \nSex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry\n, she has for many years focused on getting the stories out of women marginalised because of being poor, foreign, ‘different’ or doing jobs some folks think are wrong. She spends time in the Manuscript Room of the British Library looking for clues to how women lived 1000 years ago, and couldn’t stop reading even if she wanted to. She is known as \nThe Naked Anthropologist.\nShe has qualified as a tour guide in order to take this focus to the streets, where guided history walks rarely talk about the poor except as objects of charity. " } ] } ] ```