Hackney Archives

Day 2 highlights Sketching and Cyanotype at @staugustinestower - Hackney's oldest building (back on May 31st) and 1st anniversary of our Wikipedia training at @archiveshackney - 1st Sat of the month.. See you at the rest of the festival! #hackney #art #history #london

You can edit Wikipedia. Here’s how — free workshop, 2 May. Trainers from Wikimedia UK will show you everything: how Wikipedia works, why it matters, and how to make your first edit live on the day. We’re particularly focusing on adding women from Hackney’s history who still don’t have the pages they deserve. Saturday 2 May · 2:00–4:00pm Hackney Archives, E8 3BQ · Free Register → link in bio Bring a laptop if you can. Have you ever edited Wikipedia? 👇 #hackney #hackneylife #hackneyhistoryfestival #wikipedia #freeworkshop

Only ONE WEEK to go! Over 90 events over the month.. Tickets selling fast so get yours now.. And join us.. #hackney #london #history #culture #walks #film @riocinema @suttonhousent

📀💿 We are delighted to invite you to Resonant Matter, a new exhibition at London College of Fashion curated and produced by CfFC Interim Director Caroline Stevenson, Luke Turk (@luketurk ) and Asha Hall-Jones, and featuring Diego Benalcazar and Rachael Finney (@crisapsoundarts ), The Deosil and Widdershin Soundsystem, Jason Jules (@garmsville ) Sir Collins Archive (@archiveshackney , and Tim and Barry TV (@timandbarry ). 💿📀 🔈Resonant Matter explores the spaces and scenes through which sound, fashion and collective cultures take shape across London. Through archival storytelling and immersive installations, the exhibition traces underground networks - from pirate radio stations and street protest to sound system cultures and club nights - where aesthetic codes are shared, adapted and performed, producing distinct forms of style, music and cultural expression. By tuning in to these practices, the exhibition considers how sound and fashion move together, shaping identities, solidarities and moments of collective resonance across the city.🔈 🔈Resonant Matter forms part of The Music is Black Festival, an East Bank–wide programme celebrating @vam_east inaugural exhibition The Music is Black: A British Story.🔈 💥Please join us on April 30th 5-8pm for a female-fronted pop, rock & disco DJ set with Seena Shamsavari @thatsparrowboy , celebrating iconic Black divas at East Bank, and make a zine with Eva Dieteren, imagining what the future will sound like. 💥 📷: @j.m.psd 2-D Design: @sebkoseda

A history of the Hackney Design Awards - celebrating the borough's best loved buildings Matt Payne works for the Conservation, Urban Design & Sustainability Team at Hackney Council and will be delving into the archives of the Hackney Design Awards to celebrate some of the borough's best loved buildings, which have either won or been shortlisted since 2004. The talk will include insights from former judges and guest speakers will also share their favourite Hackney buildings and what it is they love about them. Following the talk, the audience will be invited to reflect on new buildings that might be potential winners in the 2026 Design Awards, launching later in the year. #architecture #design #hackney #london #awards

Witness the moment when these flower child performance artists first hit Dalston Who were the Exploding Galaxy? Were they. * a hippie ballet troupe? * a confluence of transmedia activators? * Britain's answer to anarchy in dance? * a brave rebuttal of schizoid aesthetics? See what you think, in the Festival's first ever showing about those galactic activators known as The Exploding Galaxy. Tickets from The Rio. #hackney #dalston #film #squat #art #cinema #london

✊ “Not a thing was moving” The 1926 General Strike in Hackney Step back into one of the most dramatic moments in British history and explore how the General Strike unfolded in Hackney. From tram blockades on Mare Street to mass meetings and the occupation of Victoria Park, discover how workers organised, resisted, and shaped the borough during this pivotal time. 🎟️ Get your ticket now and join us to learn more! #HackneyHistoryFestival #HackneyHistory #GeneralStrike1926 #RadicalHistory #LondonHistory

Discover Hackney’s stories at the Hackney History Festival 📜 Join the talk at Hackney Archives on Saturday 9 May, where Izzie will share fascinating discoveries from the archives about Hackney Society and the borough’s history. 📅 More talks and events are listed at the end of this video — get your tickets now and come along! #HackneyHistoryFestival #HackneyHistory #HackneyArchives #LocalHistory #HackneyEvents

Get your tickets now before they sell out, link in bio! #hackney #history #london #walk

This time last year 5th March 2025 was the start of great things to come. Surrounded by a fraction of community activists whom I have had or still continue to work with shared a very special day! They were then sworn to 6 months of embago until The Portrait was revealed. Check us out at @nationalportraitgallery on the 2nd floor in room 22 Rena Kydd - Williams & Dawn Carter-McDonald were selected by the London Borough of Hackney to represent the Borough as Community Changemakers in the National Portrait Gallery. Venue @archiveshackney Hair @lasaunders1001 MUA @sheronwill Photography @og_imx @thehealingtableint Kimono Jacket / Afrikan print dress @sewn_wap Perfume @prestigiousfragrances Shades Stratford branch Grenada Tote Bag @juliemecaribbe Copper bangles & Island earings @ Sandals @sahara_bee2 Beads @yviegrace_artistic_creations Grenada cross body bag @d_nutmeg_empire

What an absolute honour to be an invited speaker for the award night @ Hackney Town Hall 14th Jan 2026. Years of hard work was recognised and the Hackney Archives are now the 6th in the UK to have received the prestigious British Accreditation of Archives Award of Excellence. 3 community speakers were invited to talk about the work done in collaboration with The Archives - *The Sir Collins Collection* *An Viet Archive* *R Consultancy Organisation* Watch this space for further news on joint projects with R Consultancy as we have some amazing things lined up for 2026!

Interested in helping to shape what the world reads about Hackney on Wikipedia? Join our February Wikipedia Editing Workshop this weekend. This free workshop is a chance to help digitally preserve Hackney’s past, adding to and improving how the borough’s people, places, and stories are represented and made visible online. Beginner-friendly training is provided by @wikimediauk at @archiveshackney . One of our focus areas is creating Wikipedia pages for women featured in Women From Hackney’s History, including Joanna Vassa, daughter of the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano. Little is known about Joanna’s life, but her restored, Grade II-listed grave in Abney Park Cemetery remains a powerful monument to Hackney’s abolitionist history. She is also one of eleven women featured in our upcoming film Women From Hackney’s History. To help ensure other stories like Joanna’s are discoverable online, join us for free at the Hackney Archives tomorrow. Sign up at the link in our bio! #hackney #History #wikipedia #archives