The latest articles and news from the Hornsey Historical Society.
Speaker Bessie White will be joining HHS for a talk on Monday 20th April. Bessie will speak about her Victorian ancestor Joshua Toulmin Smith and his son Arthur. But who …
When the Tsar abdicated in 1917, the Allies realised that the dynamics of their fight
against the axis powers of Germany, Austria the Ottoman Empire had shifted. Many
Russian soldiers simply made their way home – they had a revolution to attend to.
An exhibition of photographs and maps by Ben Nathan tracing natural spring water and sewage in Bounds Green Brook.
‘Our Side of the Bridge’ tells the story of how a steep hillside south of Hornsey Lane became what is now known as the Whitehall Park Conservation Area.
January’s HHS lecture was unusual for two reasons.
In April 2025, Campsbourne Community Collective (CCC) launched a local heritage project with a workshop involving residents and service-providers, local historians, archivists, councillors and academics.
Bulletin 66 contains as usual a very varied selection of articles, two by new contributors: Leatrice Bailey and Brian Parry.
Hornsey Historical Society Members received an early Christmas Bonus this year as November’s lecture featured not one, but two top notch speakers.
