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 #Clerkenwell
+My explorations in Clerkenwell were inspired by a 2019 meeting with Mike Franks, who I had first known in the 1970s when planning correspondent for the Evening Standard. Mike developed Clerkenwell Workshops in 1975, and while working for the Silver Jubilee Celebrations Committee in 1977 I helped Mike get funding for a project that included the first Clerkenwell Discovery Trail.
+[Here's an article in the EC1 Echo](https://clerkenwell.commons.london/commons-vision) about the meeting with Mike and the idea of Clerkenwell Commons. I developed a [website about the Commons](https://clerkenwell.commons.london/home).
+EC1 Echo editor Oliver Bennett offered me a column, and I started the [Connections blog](https://connections.commons.london/) to complement that, with posts about the City, where I live in Smithfield, and neighbouring Clerkenwell. Here's one about [the idea of Destination Clerkenwell](https://connections.commons.london/destination-clerkenwell/) to complement the Square Mile's [Destination City](https://wiki.commons.london/dc/index) programme.
+After experimenting with a number of different types of maps, I developed [two maps with Footways](https://connections.commons.london/new-footways-maps/) - one on historic Clerkenwell, and one specifically on Radical Clerkenwell. I have also created a set of records about [Historic Clerkenwell on Layers of London](https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/collections/historic-clerkenwell).
+While developing those maps I gathered articles and videos about Clerkenwell, and brought together the wide range of interesting historical articles in the Echo.
+I'm currently sharing ideas with Footways for a paper map linked to a digital map and online resources, and with Mike Franks on further ways to develop the idea of Clerkenwell Commons.
+**On this site:**
 [[clerkenwell:Radical Clerkenwell|Radical Clerkenwell]]\\
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 [[clerkenwell:Videos|Clerkenwell videos]]\\
-Video tours by Islington and City Guides, May Day marches, and the Russian Revolution 1917
+Video tours by Islington and City Guides, May Day marches, and the Russian Revolution 1917.
 [[clerkenwell:Echo|EC1 Echo articles]]\\
-Articles about Clerkenwell history from the EC1 Echo
+Articles about Clerkenwell history from the EC1 Echo.
 [[clerkenwell:maps|Clerkenwell maps]]\\
-Historical Clerkenwell including Radical Clerkenwell
+Historical Clerkenwell including Radical Clerkenwell.
 [[clerkenwell:posts|Clerkenwell blog posts]]\\
-Posts on the Connections site
+Posts on the Connections site.
+[[clerkenwell:walks|Clerkenwell self-guided walks]]\\
+A collection of walks by Guides and historians.
+[[clerkenwell:resources|Additional resources]]\\
+Links to other resources.
+David Wilcox <david@socialreporter.com>