The quarterly Islington Archaeology and History Journal is sent free to members. If you would like to write something, share a memory or ask a question about Islington's past, please email the editor on news [at] iahs.org.uk

Contents Winter 2011/12:

News

Modernist gem saved from redevelopment

Joe Orton's defaced books go on show

Heritage centre plans stall Pump House conversion into flats

Letters and your questions

A printing firm in Cross Street; a nursing home and a pub family

The fight for Finsbury Health Centre

A determined campaign to stop the sale of Lubetkin's masterpiece

TV firm boxes clever

The Islington firm that made the first televisions

Christmas at Beale's

North London descends on the Holloway store for some excessive shopping

The Las Vegas of Georgian London

Why couples headed for the Fleet prison area to get married

The garden on the corner

How a small garden on Upper Street came to be

A Stroud Green Road day out

A 1940s coach trip for the workers

Coffin plates

Recognise an ancestor’s name?

Islington's western shores

An armchair cruise down the Fleet river

Tenement tales

A first-hand account of growing up near Essex Road in the 1930s

Publications and bookshop

Events

Directory of societies and museums

Islington Archaeology & History Society events