The latest articles and news from the Hornsey Historical Society.
The Representation of the People Act 1918 extended the franchise in parliamentary elections (right to vote) to men aged 21 and over, whether or not they owned property, and to …
Hornsey Journal, 28 March 1919
At Bow Street Police Court on Saturday, Sir John Dickinson concluded the hearing of the case of William Foster Watson, 37.
Hornsey Journal, 14 March 1919
William Foster Watson, 37, a turner’s engineer, of Inderwick Road, Hornsey, and Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, was charged at Bow Street on Saturday with seditious utterances in a speech at the Albert Hall, at a “Hand Off Russia” meeting, convened by the British Socialist Party.
William Foster Watson (see Hornsey Journal 14 March 1919 and 24 March 1919) used the stage of the Royal Albert Hall and the dock of Bow Street Police Court as platforms …
Little do the people entering in trepidation the portals of the imposing Wood Green Crown Court in Lordship Lane N22 suspect that this building and what stood on the site …
By Isobel Watson The development of Westminster’s hinterland and especially of Pimlico, built on waterlogged terrain, is of particular interest to anyone seeking London’s past. The story of Pimlico has …
The articles in HHS’s Bulletin 60 focus on the century between the ending of the First World War and the present day.
By the end of the the First World War the world was in the grip of the Flu pandemic that was to claim millions of lives. Hornsey was no exception …
For one hundred years Highgate Library has offered users books, information and stimulation in an elegant Edwardian building.
This diary initially set in one of London’s most formative periods – the early 19th century, when developers were building what are now the inner suburbs. It ends in one of the Empire’s colonies, in which making a living was hazardous, but where there was opportunity for the bold and resilient.