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…
Getting up Shooter’s Hill under their own steam (or gas)
Nineteenth century Greenwich was home to any number of innovative engineers – with a reputation for skilled metal working. Most famous are the armaments…
Southwark Playhouse has a brand new purpose-built theatre and it opens with a Bermondsey Revolution
Bermondsey’s most historic couple will be the stars of Southwark Playhouse’s brand new 300 seater theatre as it opens its doors to audiences later…
William Jones and his locomotives
I was wondering what to write about this week so I picked up a pin and chose a firm at random from John Smith’s…
William Morris Leaves An Imprint In Bermondsey
Pop-Up craft shops are all the rage in Bermondsey these days and there was a buzz and a clamour at the latest variant which…
The Neglected Heroism of Noor Inayat Khan
Stories of courage are fascinating and challenging. The story of Noor Inayat Khan by Azma Dar is both of those things. Remembrance season, when…
