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27 December 2019 by admin

Caret Press to publish David E. Coke’s Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens in October 2021
A collection of six papers on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke, a leading expert on London’s Georgian pleasure gardens and VauxhallHistory.org’s consulting editor, is to be published in autumn 2021 by Caret Press in association with The Vauxhall Society. This book is a selection of essays written following the publication of David Coke and...Read […]
Henry Evans Evanion, ‘The Royal Conjuror’ of Kennington
A recent discovery among a batch of printed ephemera from Victorian Vauxhall by Vauxhall History co-editor and co-author of Vauxhall Gardens: A History David Coke throws new light on the life of a remarkable resident of Kennington – the conjuror and collector Henry Evans Evanion (1832-1905). Evanion’s vast and wide-ranging collection of playbills, prints, advertisements and other ephemera...Read […]
Louise Michel, anarchist heroine of the Paris Commune, tours the Lambeth workhouse
In 1883, Louise Michel, a notorious political radical and veteran of the Paris Commune, was invited to view the Lambeth Workhouse. In this article, published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the last day of the Commune, 28 May 1881, Vauxhall History co-editor Naomi Clifford looks at the context of the visit and its meaning....Read […]