With The Hackney Society Hackney Archives Hackney Museum Museum of the Home & many others we are organising the inaugural Hackney History Festival in May 2024. This will be an exciting combination of talks, walks, book launches and visits. What you would like to see? #Hackney

The Swan Inn, Wood Street #Liverpool early 1900s

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I was kindly invited to visit and document the home on Belgrade Road of a long-term resident who passed away earlier this year at the age of 81. She moved into the house with her family in 1957 and lived there until her passing. The house, as far as I can tell, retains its

📢Brilliant news for Hackney Museum!🎉 We have been awarded more than £2.2m from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to reimagine this cultural gem in Hackney Central.🤩 The museum's redesign will build on 40 years of celebrating the stories that make Hackney special. ➡️orlo.uk/2c86Q

Fruit Pastilles, from worst (left) to best (right)

Hans Hoffmann, 16th century follower of Dürer, breathes life into this wild boar piglet, who looks ready for mischief (1570s)

Until Woman of the Day palaeontologist Mary Anning born in 1799 in Lyme Regis came along and unearthed the complete skeleton of a plesiosaur when she was 24, there was little to challenge the Bible’s story of creation and the Flood. Geology was a new theory. The first national

Visualisation of how different lock mechanisms work

Charles Schultz and the original Snoopy, 1950s