Radical Screenprinting project
New project for 2021 Radical Screenprinting
Story hour online – education
We’re working with Edith Neville Primary School in 2021 on their local Citizen Programme co-curating an exhibition. As we are all in lockdown, the history club is starting a ‘Story hour‘. We have different themes: Housing and Basil Jellicoe Edith Neville Gilbert Bayes Art in everyday life Mary Wollstonecraft – Women and Education Elizabeth Garrett Anderson […]
Poets in a Camden tradition?
Rimbaud and Verlaine, the ‘enfants terribles’ of French poetry, lived in Camden at No. 8 Royal College Street, a house campaigners are trying to save…
New Year: new project!
A great project for lockdown – Add your name to an artwork!
Event – Made of Somers Town
Photo Event coming up on January 19th – made of Somers Town
Merry Christmas 2020
Seasons Greetings!
Made of Somers Town memories
Made of Somers Town is an exhibition of posters as a response to the changes in the area. This is a street exhibition on the hoardings of the demolished building 42 Phoenix Road. A Private View will be held on January 14th. Tickets here. Surrounded by massive developments, this area is dubbed a future ‘Palo […]
Black activism in Somers Town in the 1950s
Towering political leaders and characters passed through No. 22 Cranleigh Street. Last week’s talk on George Padmore was fascinating – a conversation between academic and author of a book about Padmore, Leslie James, and Professor Esther Leslie. It seems Camden and Somers Town was a hotbed of radical politics and planning for African independence. The […]
We’re in National libraries!
Our second publication Spirit! 02 100 years of Social Housing is now in national libraries. In depositing a copy at the British Library, (a legal requirement) we were told to send five copies to libraries such as Oxford University’s, because: The British Library cherry-picked your book for the 5-copy deposit… Your 5 copies are now […]
New date for Talk on George Padmore
New date for Talk…