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A quirky compiliation of histories, this slice through time reveals Somers Town as London in minature, from Wollstonecraft to Pearlies, taking inworking class histories, pub songs, Chartish, boxing rings, anarchist Rosettis and Gilbert & George.

100 years of social housing can be found in the small bounded area of Somers Town in London from slum clearance to modernist Golden Age. It’s a history of trailblazing efforts of a radical priest and the UK’s first female surveyor to clear slums, to the bold ambitions of Camden Council, from 1920s European modernist estates to the 1960s. This traces a housing community, and its rebellions: rent strikers and squatters. This a place where housing was never on its own enough

Journeys takes in 300 years of change and migrations, in an area which attracted intellectual giants of world thought and political activism – Godwin, Wollstonecraft, black activists George Padmore and Claudia Jones as well as more recent arrivals of the Irish and Bangladeshi.