The latest articles and news from the Hornsey Historical Society.
The Archive holds two copies of this photograph; one gifted by Bridget Cherry, HHS Vice President and architectural historian, and the other by Ken Gay, Muswell Hill’s historian and HHS …
We are beginning to make back copies of the Hornsey Historical Society’s award winning Bulletin available for sale online.
Wealthy residents, together with officials of the ancient parish, had at various times since the early seventeenth century, provided cottages for the poor at different locations, often on waste land.
At the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society (LAMAS) local history conference, held at the Museum of London on Saturday 19 November 2022, it was announced that David Frith’s book, The …
We are are gradually adding more of our books for sale online and have just added four more.
This 1990 Archive photograph is part of the Joan Schwitzer Bequest. These ancient almshouses still stand in the heart of Highgate Village on a road in use for centuries and …
The Covid pandemic has raised the profile of care for the elderly and shone a light on what is all too often their isolation and vulnerability. We take for granted …
Hornsey Historical Society’s latest publication ‘100 Stories From The Archive’ will be published in early November. Stories have been cherry picked from an archive of over 28,000 catalogues items of local interest.