History Archives - Fitzrovia News

Discover more about Camden’s social and architectural history

by Roger Cline 7:34 am, Monday, 12 April 20211:35 pm, Tuesday, 6 April 2021

Camden History Society publishes a newsletter every two months and its Review every year. Camden History Society was founded in 1970 soon after Camden was formed by the amalgamation of the three former boroughs of Hampstead, Holborn, and St Pancras and needed some form of record of its heritage. John Richardson was a councillor in 1970 […]

Oxford Street – from Winsley Street to Great Portland Street

by Helene Parry 7:26 am, Monday, 1 March 202112:15 pm, Friday, 5 February 2021

New film features the experience of African air-raid warden during Blitz

by Editors 7:50 am, Friday, 19 February 20219:27 am, Friday, 19 February 2021

The Oxford Music Hall reflected the changing fortunes of entertainment in Fitzrovia and the West End

by Nick Bailey 7:51 am, Tuesday, 12 January 20219:29 am, Tuesday, 12 January 2021

‘Spy Waiters’ in 21st Century US and 20th Century Britain: Nightmares of Nationalism

by Ann Basu 7:55 am, Tuesday, 29 December 20201:17 pm, Sunday, 3 January 2021

Oxford Street – from Wells Street to Winsley Street

by Helene Parry 7:53 am, Tuesday, 15 December 20201:18 pm, Sunday, 3 January 2021

A history of London’s West End from a place of aristocratic consumption to a centre of popular entertainment and expression

by Ann Basu 6:58 am, Tuesday, 1 December 20204:49 pm, Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Memorials to WW2 firefighters unveiled at site of former fire station at Rathbone Street

by Linus Rees 7:05 am, Wednesday, 11 November 20209:48 am, Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Former home of Olaudah Equiano marked with memorial plaque

by Editors 5:20 pm, Monday, 2 November 20202:05 pm, Thursday, 5 November 2020

Green plaque commemorates medical pioneers at site of Middlesex Hospital Medical School

by Linus Rees 3:36 pm, Monday, 2 November 20203:57 pm, Monday, 2 November 2020

How diplomats saved Georgian buildings on Grafton Way from demolition

by Editors 7:27 am, Tuesday, 6 October 20208:50 am, Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Firefighters and police commemorate Auxiliary Fire Service personnel at Rathbone Street

by Linus Rees 11:51 am, Monday, 21 September 20204:07 pm, Tuesday, 10 November 2020

The forgotten history of Mortimer Street and its artistic community

by Clive Jennings 10:34 am, Thursday, 17 September 20202:16 pm, Thursday, 17 September 2020

Oxford Street – from Perry’s Place to Wells Street

by Helene Parry 10:03 am, Monday, 14 September 202012:56 pm, Saturday, 5 September 2020

The 200-year-old cosmopolitan and architectural allure of Oxford Street

by Helene Parry 9:40 am, Sunday, 21 June 202010:01 am, Saturday, 20 June 2020

The artist Harry Jonas – ‘Last of the Fitzrovians’

by Contributor 8:53 am, Saturday, 20 June 20209:45 am, Saturday, 20 June 2020

Soho’s lost post-war living room of badly behaved bohemians

by Ann Basu 10:36 am, Saturday, 13 June 20205:44 pm, Thursday, 4 June 2020

The barbarous treatment of slaves was for the benefit of local gentry

by Mike Pentelow 10:19 pm, Thursday, 11 June 2020

Artist Harry Jonas was helped by actor Oliver Reed in a campaign to save buildings on Maple Street

by Linus Rees 11:23 am, Tuesday, 7 April 202011:37 pm, Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Investigation of former hospital and workhouse site reveals intact human burial remains

by Editors 11:17 am, Friday, 6 September 20191:33 pm, Friday, 6 September 2019