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Category: History

local history, family history, research, streets, surveys, archaeology

Posted inHistory

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
Blue plaque commemorating a site in Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia where Olaudah Equiano lived.
Posted inHistory

Former home of Olaudah Equiano marked with memorial plaque

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

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
Posted inHistory, Politics

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
Posted inEvents, History, Society

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
Posted inCulture, Events, History

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
Posted inEnvironment, History

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
Front of buildings on street.
Posted inEnvironment, History

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
Row of buildings.
Posted inCulture, History

The artist Harry Jonas – ‘Last of the Fitzrovians’

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

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
Posted inHistory

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

by Mike Pentelow 10:19 pm, Thursday, 11 June 2020
Row of buildings.
Posted inEnvironment, History

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
Posted inEnvironment, History

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
Posted inCulture, History

A new history of Fitzrovia shows a rich mixture of workers, migrants, intellectuals and villains

by Editors 6:35 am, Monday, 10 June 20197:19 pm, Monday, 3 June 2019
Newspaper front page.
Posted inHistory, Society

The life and changing times of the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre

by Editors 7:09 am, Tuesday, 4 June 20198:18 am, Tuesday, 4 June 2019
Stone monument.
Posted inEvents, History

Wreath-laying and rededication at restored Rangers Memorial for Armistice Centenary

by Editors 2:36 pm, Tuesday, 6 November 201810:57 am, Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Front of pub.
Posted inCulture, History

Guided walks explore London’s history of sexual diversity

by Editors 8:55 am, Wednesday, 29 August 20188:58 am, Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Posted inEnvironment, History

Human remains ‘should be anticipated’ at former workhouse site

by Editors 12:14 am, Tuesday, 27 June 20178:20 am, Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Front of mansion block.
Posted inCulture, History

Why is there no blue plaque for Doris Lessing in Langham Street?

by Jennifer Kavanagh 7:49 am, Thursday, 1 December 201612:50 pm, Thursday, 26 January 2017
Two men in underground structure.
Posted inEnvironment, History

Excavation reveals post-medieval pits and potential Civil War fort

by Editors 11:27 am, Saturday, 16 April 20163:56 pm, Monday, 18 April 2016

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Mike Pentelow enjoying music and a drink at the King and Queen pub in September 2018.

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