Upcoming Events

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 7.45pm, History Talk: ‘Windrush 1948: Journey, Arrival, Settlement, Belonging’, Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society, St. John’s Church Hall, E11 1HH

Thursday 27 November, 7.00pm, History Talk: ‘London’s Forgotten Heroes’, Salon in the City, The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, WC1N 1JD

Thursday 26 February, 7.30pm, History Talk: ‘The Everyday Heroes of Postman’s Park’, The Finchley Society, Avenue House, Stephens House and Gardens, 17 East End Road, N3 3QE

March 5 to April 4 2026, Exhibition: ‘Putting Away Childish Things’, Gerald Moore Gallery, Mottingham Lane, SE9 4RW (with the Museum of Everyday Life)

Monday 16 March 2026, 10.00am, History Talk: ‘Educating Deptford: The Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community’, Mycenae House Local History Group, Mycenae House, 90 Mycenae Road, SE3 7SE

Tuesday 7 April 2026, 7.30pm, History Talk: ‘Educating Deptford: The Deptford Ragged School and its Place in the Community’, Lamorbey & Sidcup Local History Society, St Lawrence’s Community Hall, Hamilton Road, Sidcup.

Previous Events

Friday 25 July 2025, 7.30pm, History Talk: ‘Windrush: Settlement, Citizenship, and Belonging’, The 1940s Society, Otford Memorial Hall, TN14 5PQ, entry £5 cash on the door

Friday 27 June 2025, 10.00am, History Talk: ‘Baildon Street: The Blackest Street in Deptford?’, U3A South East London Heritage Group, Horn Park, Eltham Road, SE12 8UE

Saturday 21 June, 12.00noon – 5.00pm, Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre (with Building Stories, and Historybox)

Saturday 8 June 2025, 10.00am, History Walk: ‘Walking with Booth: Nunhead 1899’

Saturday 8 June 2025, 1.45pm, History Walk: ‘A People’s History of New Cross’

Saturday 17 May 2025, 11.00am – 5.00pm, Nunhead Cemetery Open Day (with the Museum of Everyday Life, Building Stories, and Historybox)

Saturday 26 April 2025, 2.30pm, History Talk: ‘Baildon Street: The Blackest Street in Deptford?’, Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, Townley Road, Bexleyheath

Thursday 24 April 2025, 7.15pm, History Talk: ‘The Forgotten Heroes of Postman’s Park‘, Lewisham Local History Society, St Dunstan’s Jubilee Pavilion, SE5 4SW

Tuesday 8 April 2025, 6.00pm, History Performance and Exhibition: ‘The Salon of Curiosities’. Telegraph Hill Festival.

Sunday 6 April 2025, 1.45pm, History Walk: ‘A People’s History of New Cross’. Telegraph Hill Festival.

Sunday 6 April 2025, 10.00am, History Walk: ‘Walking with Booth: Deptford 1899’. Telegraph Hill Festival.

Saturday 5 April 2025, 1.45pm, History Walk: ‘Walking with Booth: Nunhead 1899’. Telegraph Hill Festival.

Saturday 5 April 2025, 10.00am, History Walk: ‘Walking with Booth: Hatcham Park 1899’. Telegraph Hill Festival.

Monday 31 March 2025, 10.00am, History Talk: ‘The Everyday Heroes of Postman’s Park’, Mycenae House Local History Group, Mycenae House, 90 Mycenae Road, SE3 7SE

Saturday 29 March 2025, 10.00am, History Walk: ‘A People’s History of New Cross’. Telegraph Hill Festival.

Saturday 29 March 2025, 1.45pm, History Walk: ‘Walking with Booth: Deptford 1899’. Telegraph Hill Festival.

Sunday 30 March 2025, 10.30am, History Walk: ‘Postman’s Park: Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London’.

Tuesday 4 February 2025, 7.30pm, History Talk: ‘The Forgotten Heroes of Postman’s Park’. Lamorbey & Sidcup Local History Society, St Lawrence’s Community Hall, Hamilton Road, Sidcup.