Finsbury Park After Dark | The Past: 400 Years of Criminalising Poverty
A deep dive into the "Homelessness Big Bang" - exploring the origins of criminalisation as state policy (land enclosures, vagrancy laws, penal transportation) alongside the thread of cross-cultural resistance and solidarity between bonded servants, enslaved people, and displaced communities.
About the Series
Hosted by Lewis Brown, the creative mind behind the Enough About Me Podcast, the Finsbury Park After Dark series traces unlikely links between state enforcement, institutional dehumanisation, and community resistance by looking at the Past the Present, and the Future.
Manor House Lodge Seven Sisters Road, London, N4 2DE
Dani C. is an Applied Theatre practitioner, educator, and researcher who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Goldsmiths, and the University of Cumbria. Dani is passionate about supporting communities in their development and transformation by utilising a range of reflexive, therapeutic, educational, and coaching skills. (image credit: Blond Fox).
Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has published widely on Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Anthropology (the 'four As') and on public memory, colonial history and national heritage. His books include The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (2020) and Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting (2025). A new book is coming in 2027. You can read some of Dan's writing Instagram: @ProfDanHicks
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This ticket grants access to Finsbury Park After Dark | The Past: 400 Years of Criminalising Poverty on Wednesday 30th September 2026
London