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 […]
New Year: new project!
A great project for lockdown – Add your name to an artwork!
Merry Christmas 2020
Seasons Greetings!
Memories of Phoenix Road?
Do you have memories of the nursery at 42 Phoenix Road?
St Aloysuis 1815 Sermon
Another addition to local history – a short video bite’ telling of a sermon in St Aloysuis For #MuseumFromHome tells of an 1815 sermon at St Aloysuis – Somers Town St Pancras History
‘Journeys’ events – dates for your diary
Our next Spirit! publication is on the theme Journeys. Contact us to get involved or contribute. Here are next events below. Somers Town is between the tracks: Euston, St Pancras and King’s Cross. We are surrounded by journeys…and a rich history of migration here – French aristocrats escaping revolution to Wollstonecraft, Shelley, Elizabeth Garret Anderson […]
News…funding and next project
The Somers Town History Space – and Club continues onto a new publication – our third. We have successfully won funding from Culture Seeds the Mayor Of London fund. Our third next spring will be called ‘ Journeys’, starting from early French and Spanish influx into Somers Town, to Irish railway workers and more… Do […]
Help map Somers Town on the 14th!
What buildings matter to you? Do you have a knowledge of old Somers Town? A community may value different buildings to what planners think. Find out more on the 14th February about an innovative project that’s chosen Somer Town as a prototype for a web ‘record’. We’re hoping it will help the community record the […]
NEWS! Film kicking off
Somers Town History Club is kicking off its film project: “Spirit! An interactive journey through mum’s clubs, priests in pubs and street festivals” We’d love you to be involved – it’s a community project – if you have stories, photos, memories or wish to help, please get in touch. ‘It’s ‘for locals, by locals’ We […]