Dickens used London to fuel his imagination, including a particular street in EC1...
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Without compensation or support Candid Arts Centre faces closure on 31st March 2024.
Dozens of historic sites in Islington are considered to be at risk, new figures have revealed.
In 1859 Charles Dickens began a new novel, penning one of the most famous beginnings in literary history.
'People & Protest: Radical Clerkenwell Reinterpreted' is set to empower local residents in Islington to uncover and engage with the rich radical history of...
Join us for a volunteering info session on Wed 14th February
The Charterhouse is taking part in LGBT+ History Month for the first time this February.
Novelist Pony Louder on how stepping out of the rain and into a little churchyard was the beginning of a story that’s been read from Canada to New Zealand.
900 years in the heart of Clerkenwell. Last few weeks to catch the Clerkenwell Green exhibition at the Islington Museum.
Year 6 pupils from Hugh Myddleton school experience a recreation of a Victorian Ragged School Christmas party.
A evening of document displays at London Metropolitan Archives and Marx Memorial Library, and a guided walk across Clerkenwell.
The fascinating history of Merlin's Cave.
Find out more about the The Black Mary Project at an open day on Sat Nov 18th.
The latest temporary exhibition at The Postal Museum – Dressed to Deliver - opens this autumn.
This Friday 15th Sept, The Gentle Author gives a free, illustrated talk on the 400 year history of street pedlars in London.
Hazel Phillips tells the amazing story of James Blackburn, Clerkenwell’s ‘white collar’ convict
A new vision for using technology to tell the history of Clerkenwell and Smithfield
This winter, Danny Bee is starting a new kind of radical walk in the EC1 area By Oliver Bennett The corners of radical Clerkenwell. Photo: Danny Bee There are...
Vivian Watson shares an extract from his recent book ‘How Did Our Garden Grow’ The History of Hatton Garden’ The Hatton Garden Safe Deposit...
Created in 1843, the same year as Dickens first published ‘A Christmas Carol’, a case can be made for the modern idea of Christmas beginning here...
As her bestselling book is republished, it’s time to look anew at Clerkenwell woman Amelia Edwards – the UK’s greatest populariser of ancient Egyptian...
As Black History Month gets underway EC1 Echo’s Oliver Bennett meets Leon Robinson – the UK’s foremost archivist of Black artefacts Couple...
London wouldn’t be the metropolis it is without water. In his new book The Mercenary River, Nick Higham, details EC1’s aquatic past BY OLIVER...
The character of Darby Sabini in Peaky Blinders has revitalised interest in Clerkenwell’s infamous interwar gangster BY OLIVER BENNETT & DAVID HYAMS...
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