| Past Lectures covered the following topics:
Survey of London - Clerkenwell
Speaker: from English Heritage
"Greenwich"
Speaker: A Greenwich Tour Guide
"Union
Chapel - re-birth of a wonderful building"
Speaker: Anthony Richardson
"Journalism in Islington"
Speaker: Mark Blunden and Peter Gruner
"Architecture in Islington"
Speaker: David Gibson
"Urbs and Suburbs"
Speaker: Harry Sherlock, Islington Icon
"The Design and Adaptation of Every
Day Devices - 1851 to 1951"
Speaker: Maurice Collins
"Mary Cosh on her historical
writings"
Speaker: Mary Cosh
"Scottish Military History"
Speaker: Captain John Cameron-Nixon
(with piper, musicians and dancers)
"Researching your family"
Speaker: Antonia Davies
"An appreciation of the Routemaster - 1954 to 2005"
Speaker: Andrew Bosi
"St John's Gate: The Old
Jerusalem Tavern"
Speaker: Cressida Finch
"Ending Up in Islington"
Speaker: Ken Baldry
"A History of Islington"
Speaker: Mary Cosh
"History of Kenwood House"
Speaker: Philip St Pride "Sir Mortimer Wheeler - The Don Juan of the Digs!"
Speaker: Professor Mike Hood "Life as an MP"
Speaker: Rt Hon Chris Smith "The Roman Garden"
Speaker: Russell Bowes "The Alphabet moves West".
Speaker: Dr Alan Johnston. "Anna Scher"
Speaker: Anna Scher "Control, Alt, Delete: The Impact of Information Technology on Historical Records"
Speaker: Beate Hohmann "An illustrated tour of the capital beneath us"
Speaker: John Smiles "Asquith & Chamberlain"
Two past prime ministers with strong connections to Islington
Speaker: Richard Wallington
"Frost Fairs"
Speaker: Ian Currie
“Looking Round the Corner – Into and Out of Compton Terrace”
Speaker: Michael Marland, CBE, MA, FRSA, FCP, HonDEd, HonDUniv
“150 Years of St Andrew’s Church, Barnsbury”
Speaker: Kathleen Frenchman
“The Nature of Death: Lichens in London Cemeteries”
Speaker: Amanda Waterfield, British Lichen Society
”The ancient boundaries of Islington”
Speaker: Malcolm Stokes
“A nursery of riot, a volcano of sedition”
Speaker: Mike Gray
“300 years in the life of a Clerkenwell Street”
Speaker: Barb Jacobson
“Searching for the Heart of Empire? A guided tour of Imperial London”
Speaker: David Gilbert
“The Sydney Street Siege”
Speaker: Jeff Page, the National Gallery
“George Orwell’s Centenary”
Speaker: Peter Powell, IA&HS Chairman
“Type Foundries in Islington”
Speaker: Chris Rule
“Joe and Ken – a new play about Joe Orton”
Live performance by Alan Wraxall and Mike Goodenough
Written by John Dunne
“A Talk on the Archives”
Speaker: Armand de Filippo, Local History Librarian
“Theatre in Islington from 1850”
Speaker: Malcolm Jones, Theatre Museum
“Images of England”
Speaker: Micaela Basford
“Highgate Dissenters”
Speaker: Dr John Thompson
“Roman remains at Lefevre Walk / Parnell Road”
Speaker: Robin Taylor-Wilson
“The Weather”
Speaker: Ian Currie
“Mediaeval London and Paris”
Speaker: Mark Hassall
“The Brady Street Scheme”
Speaker: Carol Bentley
“The Archway”
Speaker: Simon Morris
“Mile End Old Town 1740 – 1780”
Speaker: Derek Morris
“The King’s Head Theatre”
Speaker: Dan Crawford
“Islington and Michelangelo”
Speaker: Dick Leadbetter
“The History and Development of London’s Canals”
Speaker: A Farrand Radley
“Dr Barnardo and the Ragged Schools”
Speaker: Richard Dunn
“LAARC Services – the work of the archaeological archivist”
Speaker: Hedley Swain
“Asylums and academies – the afterlife of the great houses of Hackney”
Speaker: Isobel Watson, Chair of the Friends of Hackney Archives
“History brought alive through Film – the work of the London Film Archive”
Speaker: Amanda Huntley, Trustee of the London Film Archive
“Beneath our Feet: the Geology of Islington”
Speaker: Diane Clements, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum
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