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Become a Lambeth Guide
Starting in September 2021, Morley College is offering a brand new course for those who wish to learn to design and deliver walking tours and virtual presentations, and for those who are already guiding and wish to gain a formal qualification or to learn more about Lambeth. No previous experience or qualifications are necessary. Register...Read […]
Talk: Anarchist in the UK: Louise Michel, heroine of the Paris Commune, in south London
Louise Michel, feminist, anarchist, poet, playwright and journalist, survived the bloody end of the 1871 Paris Commune and subsequent exile to New Caledonia. She loved London and visited several times. But why was she invited in 1883 to give her opinion on the Lambeth Workhouse? To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Vauxhall...Read […]
Claudia Jones’s Vauxhall years and the genesis of the West Indian Gazette
In the late 1950s Vauxhall was home to Claudia Jones, one of the most important figures in black British history during perhaps her most creative period, when she founded the West Indian Gazette, Britain’s first major black newspaper. Sean Creighton looks at the impact of her work. Claudia Jones was born in Trinidad on 21...Read […]