My Talks

Parks and Public Spaces

  • From Houses or Votes to a Public Park – The Creation of Butterfield Green (Slides, Recording)
  • How Clissold Park was saved by the public, for the public (Slides, Recording)
  • 130 years of Clissold Park (Slides)

Decades of Change

  • 1930s Stoke Newington – Rediscovering a Decade of Profound Change (Slides, Recording)
  • Swinging Stoke Newington – A Journey Through Changes in the 1960s (Slides, Recording)

Lost and Changed Landmarks

  • Stoke Newington’s Lost Pubs and Ghost Cinemas – A Visual Journey (Slides, Recording)
  • Stoke Newington’s seven long-lost cinemas (Slides)
  • Stoke Newington pubs – Converted. Demolished. Rebuilt. (Slides)
  • Stoke Newington’s lost pubs (Slides)
  • Pints, Partitions and Rebuild – The Red Lion’s 300-Year History (Slides, Recording)
  • Back to the Local…A Stoke Newington Perspective (Slides, Recording)

Architecture and Urban Design

  • Paradise Row: A Corner of Old Stoke Newington (Slides, Recording)
  • The architects who built Stoke Newington (Recording)
  • Stoke Newington churches (Slides)
  • The Beauty of Victorian Coal-Hole Covers (Slides)
  • The evolution of Stoke Newington Church Street 1847-2017 (Slides)
  • A Visual History of Stoke Newington Church Street (Slides)

Mapping and Aerial Views

  • Come Fly With Me – Exploring old aerial photos of Stoke Newington (Slides, Recording)
  • A visual history of Stoke Newington street signs (Recording)
  • Before the building boom: Exploring the 1846 map (Slides)
  • On Maps and in Minds: The Boundaries of Stoke Newington (Slides)

Archival Research and Discoveries

  • Photos from the Hackney Archives (Slides)
  • A Glimpse into Hackney Archives’ photos of Stoke Newington (Recording)
  • Stoke Newington history treasure troves (Slides)
  • Lost in the Shed – Unearthing a Treasure Trove of Printing Material from the 1930s-50s (Slides, Recording)

Social and Cultural Insights

  • Ghost Shop Signs: Accidental Finds, Briefly Revealing Lost Shops (Slides, Recording)
  • Look up, Look down: Spotting local history everywhere (Slides)
  • The History of Stoke Newington Street Names (Slides, Recording)
  • Bidding on the Past – Unearthing Stoke Newington’s history through eBay finds (Slides, Recording)
  • The Segregated Pub – A History of Class and Gender-based Drinking (Slides, Recording)
  • Reconstruct, Restore, Reimagine: New Perspectives on Stoke Newington’s History Through AI (Slides, Recording)