Join us @roundchapel at 3pm when @shabnabegum25 will explain the long historical roots of the Bangladeshi community in east London.
Though the Bengali squatters movement was mainly based in Tower Hamlets, there was considerable spillover into the edges of Hackney.
The squatters movement claimed entitlement and belonging based on what was seen to be the community's long contribution to the country. Hackney has a long history of settling Sylheti sailors, known as lascars - dating back to the 19th century. What is curious is that even then we had competing conversations about boats, borders and belonging. This talk highlights the squatters movement in east London and the way that feelings of belonging and entitlement have always been at the heart of how we try to understand who we are and who we want to be.
#hackney #squatting #history #eastlondon #london
That’s a wrap on the Shoreditch Historic Pub Tours for Hackney History festival! 🥳
Thank you so much for coming, it was an absolute joy to share the incredible stories of these pubs with you. It’s a history of change, creativity and community, but also one filled with fun. Like when they put a horse inside the Bricklayers Arms… just because it was funny.
The tours were a tremendous success, so do keep your eye out for new dates added soon!
I donate 11% of all PUBlic Historian tour profits to a relevant charity or organisation, in this case I chose @hackneyfoodbank .
Thank you for choosing to support a small independent business and for making a positive impact on our communities!
I’ll see you soon!
Cheers,
The PUBlic Historian.🍻
Hackney has its own gravel. Named after it. And there might be Jurassic rock underneath.
Most people have no idea what’s beneath the streets they walk every day. This talk changes that.
50 million years of London Clay. A chalk layer that provided water for centuries. A vanished river called the Hackney Brook. And the question nobody has thought to ask: was there ever Jurassic rock under Hackney?
Beneath your feet: the geology of Hackney
with Diana Clements, London Geodiversity Partnership
Saturday 16 May · 4:00–4:50pm
Round Chapel, £3
Tickets → link in bio
Did you know Hackney had its own gravel?
Tag someone who’d find this as fascinating as we do 👇
#hackney #hackneyhistory #hackneyhistoryfestival #historylovers #historyoflondon
There’s an Elizabethan monument in Stoke Newington with a Latin epitaph no one has ever translated. Until now.
In 1581, a Latin epitaph was carved onto a monument inside St Mary’s Old Church. Written by someone who moved in Elizabethan poetic circles...
The author’s name? Still anonymous. After 444 years.
This talk offers the first public translation, explores the world of John Dudley (Lord of the Manor who died in 1580) and speculates on who might have written the most mysterious inscription in Hackney.
Sunday 17 May · 1:00–1:50pm
Chat’s Palace, E9 · £3
Tickets → link in bio
Tag someone who loves a good historical mystery 👇
#history #historylovers #hackney #hackneylife #hackneyhistoryfestival
Great start to the @hackneyhistoryfest at The Print House Gallery & Dalston Curve Garden.
This Place Then Exhibition by @mapeditions followed by an introduction to the festival and speakers for the upcoming programme.
Follow @hackneyhistoryfest to join in on the walks, talks & tours
📹 @mediorite
Ever wondered what lies beneath your feet?
Join us on Saturday, May 16th at the Round Chapel to learn all about the geology of Hackney. 🪨
#Hackney #History #geology #LondonEvents #thingstodoinlondon
Your guide to Hackney History Festival 11–17 May
A week packed with talks, guided walks, tours and live events — from Hoxton Hall to the canals of Hackney, from prefabs in Clapton to the geology beneath your feet.
Highlights this week:
🏛 Monday 11 — Hoxton Hall Tour with Dr Deborah Jeffries
🚢 Friday 15 — Canal Boat Trip + Old Firestation Open Event
🎤 Saturday 16 — 6 talks including Ghost Shop Signs, Hackney Suffragettes & A History of Hackney in Sound and Vision
🎯 Sunday 17 — Rock against Racism, LGBTQ+ history & the Hackney History Pub Quiz
Tickets from £3 — some events free
Full programme → link in bio
Which talk would you most want to attend? 👇
#hackneyhistory #hackney #hackneyhistoryfestival #hackneylife #historylovers
“A History of Hackney in Sound & Vision” 🎶🎞️
A magical evening, courtesy of the Hackney Community Orchestra.
Don’t miss it!
Round Chapel, May 16th.
#Hackney #History #Film #Orchestra #Music
Two streets in Hackney are named after women almost no one has heard of.
Isabella Road and Mehetabel Road – still here today – were named by a woman called Mehetabel Ball, who owned and developed the land around Sutton House in the 19th century. She named them after her two daughters – and those daughters she named after herself and her mother-in-law. In an era when men routinely named things after themselves and their sons, this was quietly radical.
Mehetabel inherited the property from her mother-in-law, Isabella Ball — who had herself inherited Sutton House aged just 19 in 1781, and went on to own it for 71 years. The longest owner (copyholder) in the property’s history, man or woman.
These women shaped this part of Hackney in a time when women were expected to keep to the shadows.
Come hear their full stories – and many more hidden histories – at my talk ‘A Quiet Roar: Untold stories of the women of Sutton House’ for Hackney History Festival this Sunday, 10am at Sutton House itself. 🏛
@suttonhousent
🎟 Only £3 — link on @hackneyhistoryfest
#hiddenhistory #hackneyhistory #womenshistory #londonhistory #suttonhouse
A trip into our history...
‘We don’t often get to see the history of learning disabled people experiencing joy and living their everyday lives. Mostly you only hear about the dark past of people getting shut away in institutions, so it was really lovely to see people living similar lives to us. I haven’t seen pictures like that before.’ -Sophie Green, Trainee Co-Director, Black Cab Company
A group from the Black Cab Company recently visited Hackney Archives @hackneycouncil , and stepped back in time to when we were known as the Rainbow Drama Group.
Looking through old photos, posters and videos, we found moments of the community making work, creating shows, and rehearsing together.
We also came across poems and materials created in memory of original Rainbow Drama Group member, Harvey Waterman. It sparked conversations about how we remember people in our work, which is really important to the group.
As @hackneyhistoryfest celebrates the borough’s rich and diverse past this May, we’re thinking about histories that aren’t always visible, and how important it is to see learning disabled people represented not just through struggle, but through joy, creativity, and everyday life.
Explore the festival programme: hackneyhistoryfestival.org
A Victorian man in Hackney kept 13 parrots and 2 toucans — and invited them to breakfast🦜
This is the talk you didn’t know you needed.
Shirley Hibberd’s extraordinary world of birds in 1860s Hackney — compared with the working-class East Londoners who kept canaries, finches and pigeons for generations after him. A joyful, unexpected piece of local history.
Making a happy family: birdkeeping in Hackney and East London with Michael Guida
Sunday 10 May · 10:00–10:50am
@suttonhousent · £3
Tickets → link in bio
Did anyone in your family keep birds? 👇
#hackney #hackneyhistoryfestival #hackneyhistory #londonevents #historylovers
Strange comings and goings! Why was Kenmure Road so hectic in May 1926? Come and find out at @archiveshackney this Saturday at 4pm... #generalstrike100
