As 2018 draws to a close, here’s a snapshot of some of the things we got up to. Quite a lot when laid out like this. Even I’m surprised.
MEMBERS’ MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
These provided the usual superb range of original articles throughout the year from our members, in chronological order as follows:
Caroline Rance on the anatomist Thomas Cooke.
David Long on London Docks.
Anne Carwardine on Suffragette demonstrations in London.
Ian Castle on German air raids in WW1.
Laurence Scales on the Royal Society of Arts.
Lucy Inglis on the history of ethnic cuisine in London.
Drew Gray on Police Magistrates and the Poor.
Stanley Slaughter on the Temple Coffee House Botany Club.
Brian Cookson on Kingston Bridge.
Rebecca Walker on Fred Tibbs, police photographer.
Martyn Cornell on London vat manufacturers.
Gary Powell on the 18C American merchant Stephen Sayre.
Lissa Chapman on Aphra Behn.
Stephen Coates on the ‘lost’ bridge of Vauxhall.
Roger Williams on London freemasonry.
Mark Mason on London ‘seconds’.
Catharine Arnold on Ruth Ellis.
Brian Buxton on William Tyndale in London.
EVENTS
Monthly pub meet-up.
First Wednesday of every month and open to all. Some wonderful evenings as ever, turnout anything between 20 and 40. Info and 2019 schedule here.
Here follows a selection of most of our other events in 2018.
28 Jan, 21 Oct, 2 Dec: HMP Wandsworth prison & museum.
Friday 9 February: Royal College of Physicians.
Monday 5 March: Parliamentary Archives, Palace of Westminster.
Tues 20 March: Leslie Green Stations Tour.
Sat 24 March: Charles Holden Stations Tour.
Mon 26 March: Apothecaries’ Hall.
27 March: London Transport Acton Depot Poster Museum.
Fri 20 April morning: Orleans House.
Fri 20 April afternoon: Turner’s House.
Fri 27 April: Museum of Army Music.
Sat 5 May: Abney Park Cemetery Tour.
Wed 23 May morning: Awayday walking tour of Guildford.
Wed 23 May afternoon: Brooking Museum.
Tue 29 May: London Historians Big Quiz, won by 50 Shades.
12 June: Barber Surgeons’ Hall.
Fri 22 June: Cinema Museum.
Sat 7 July: RAF 100 Walks.
Thur 2 August: Society of Genealogists talk and tour.
8 August: Barings Art Collection.
Tue 21 Aug, 16 Oct. History in the Pub.
Thurs 23 August: Layers of London Workshop.
Friday 24: August Ian Nairn’s Birthday Pub Crawl.
Thur 6 September: LH Annual Lecture, Gresham College. Prof. Tim Hitchcock.
Thur 10 September: Alexander Fleming Lab visit. 90 years penicillin.
Thur 13 September: 55 Broadway Tour.
20 Sept morning: Chelsea Arts Club & Historic Chelsea tour.
20 September afternoon: Carlyle’s House, Chelsea.
Wed 3 October: Farewell cruise on the old Woolwich Ferry.
Fri 5 October: Tooting Granada tour.
23 Oct: After Aphra featuring the Widow Ranter at Watermens’ Hall.
Sat 10 November: Lord Mayor’s Show (not a LH event strictly speaking!).
Saturday 17 November: Kirkaldy Testing Museum.
Sun 18 November: Battle of Brentford Walk.
Mon 17 December: Tyndale Society Carol Service, St Mary Abchurch.
If you’re not yet a London Historians Member reading this and you think this sort of thing may be your bag, we’d love to welcome you on board. Please go here!
Thank you to all our Members near and far who supported us through this wonderful year. Also the dozens of London institutions whose time, treasure, knowledge and heritage they most generously share.
Thank you to all readers of this blog.
To everyone, we wish you a Happy New Year and many marvellous things and places to share and explore through 2019.
Mike Paterson
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