What’s in a London pub name?
What links a champion bare-knuckle boxer, a pioneering general who inspired the invention of Ordnance Survey maps and a runaway cat? They’ve all given…
Old Operating Theatre Museum gets new skylight
Sarah Corn, director of the Old Operating Theatre Museum, tells us about the history of the hospital and the museum’s latest restoration project –…
Frankie Lucas: The Golden Boy of South London
Frankie Lucas was a middleweight boxer from Croydon who fought during the 1970s. He had come to the UK from St Vincent as part…
Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
The Greek historian Arrian records Alexander the Great saying of Persia, ‘Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft…
Bought and Sold By The British
Written by Amantha Edmead, directed by Euton Daley MBE, and inspired by the storytelling traditions of the West African Griot, SOLD tells the true…
Dulwich College loans Royal Museum Greenwich Shakespeare’s First Folio for 400th anniversary exhibition
One of the UK’s 50 surviving copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio – the first collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays – has gone on…
Coming soon: Family Tree – the legacy of Henrietta Lacks
Family Tree is a powerful and poetic drama exploring race, inequality, health, the environment and the incredible legacy of one of the most influential…
History: When Bermondsey went ‘opping!
Many elderly residents have happy memories of the time when the only holiday they got was working in the hop fields of Kent every…
Bermondsey History: The Rolls behind the Royce
So much in Bermondsey reminds us of the Rolls family. For a start, Rolls Road is named after them and denotes just part of…
A history of Penn’s engineering works and the early vehicles made in Blackheath Road
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve written articles about various steam road vehicles which passed through or originated in Greenwich and the surrounding…
Making Merry: Merryweather & Sons steam powered trams
In the past five articles I’ve been talking about manufacturers and experimenters with mechanically driven road transport in Greenwich in the 19th century, writes…
Five Years With The White Man
Unleash The Llama highlights a forgotten figure of Black British History with the first theatrical adaptation of the life of A.B.C Merriman-Labor, an African…
