This Shared Learning Project with the University of the Third Age (U3A) will produce an exhibition about Crouch End in the past using pictures from the HHS Archive. The project …
The Friends of Finsbury Park have asked author Hugh Hayes to revise his book A Park for Finsbury to celebrate the 150th anniversary this August of the founding of Finsbury Park. …
Bulletin 58 won the 2017 London & Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) Journal Prize, having secured this award two years previously also. Hearty congratulations go to Sandra Clark, Bulletin Editor, to …
For the second time in a few weeks the HHS has featured on the BBC. Peter Barber, our president, was interviewed in the Old Schoolhouse for the BBC1 documentary Pubs, Ponds …
To coincide with the reopening of the Alexandra Palace Theatre, Keith Armstrong’s book Restoration: Alexandra Palace The East Wing is published on Monday 3rd December. From the publisher “The book …
On Saturday 1st December the Alexandra Palace Theatre officially reopens after over eighty years of closure. The varied and interesting history of the theatre is well-documented from its beginnings as …
In case you missed it you can listen to Hornsey Historical Society Chairman, Keith Fawkes, being interviewed about Hornsey on the Robert Elms’ programme on BBC Radio London last month. It’s …
Imagine being able to peel back the layers of London’s history all the way to the Roman period, and explore interactively – wherever you are – the story of London’s …
Music in Alexandra Palace internment camp by sixth-former Patrick Hegarty Morrish was short-listed in the ‘short article’ category by the British Association for Local History (BALH) in their awards for …
At the annual conference of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) held at the Museum of London on Saturday 18th November, HHS won the award for the best London …