London: a city so central to our mission at The Female Archetypes. A city many of us love for its vibrancy and layered history, even as its monuments and statues have historically told a narrower story than the one actually lived here.

So we mapped our own route. Not a comprehensive history, just a starting point: seven stops, one for each archetype, each tied to a real piece of London's women's history worth knowing.

Artemis: Hyde Park

Independence and open space. Hyde Park has hosted more protest and public gathering than almost any patch of green in the city, a fitting home for the archetype of freedom.

Athena: The British Library

Wisdom and strategy. A building full of the accumulated knowledge of centuries, including the writing of women who had to fight far harder than their male contemporaries to be published, read, and remembered.

Hestia: Any London kitchen table

Hestia doesn't have a monument, and that's rather the point. Hers is the archetype of the unglamorous, essential work that rarely gets a plaque: the home, the hearth, the meal on the table.

Hera: The Old Bailey

Commitment, partnership, and the fight for equal standing under the law. Somewhere in that history is every woman who's had to argue for the same rights her partner was simply granted.

Demeter: Columbia Road Flower Market

Abundance, cycles, the harvest. A market that's operated for well over a century, generation after generation of women running stalls their mothers ran before them.

Persephone: The Underground itself

Descent and transformation. There's something fitting about the Tube as a symbol of Persephone: the daily descent underground, and the return, changed by the day, to the surface.

Aphrodite: Columbia Road on a Sunday, again, differently

Sensuality and beauty, not as vanity but as genuine pleasure. The same market, seen through a different archetype's eyes.

None of us are just one stop on this route. Most days, we're moving through several at once. Which stop would your week actually start at?