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A Space For Us ~ People's Museum Somers Town

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#OnThisDay in History in 1975, the Unity Theatre caught fire, subsequently closing its door after nearly forty years of radical theatre in Somers Town. The Stage newspaper reported that the fire "DESTROYED the greater part of the Unity Theatre in Goldington Street, King's Cross…

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Remember remember...penny for the guy? We're open today with a pram!

"Penny for the guy" Bermondsey boys down the Old Kent Road, November 1944.

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Craziest housing stat of the week: The state spends MORE today on housing than it did in 1976. The key difference: we used to build council houses, now we spend it on subsidising private landlords. Our housing system is completely broken.

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Really great space & great event at the very good @HistoryTown People's History in Somers Town. Esther Leslie on the anarchist history of her grandparents Esther and Charlie Lahr inc their Progressive Bookshop, Red Lion St, Holborn. Top night out!

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This is tomorrow, from 6pm, followed by drinks and records! Booking link below: eventbrite.co.uk/e/anarchist-me…

This month's very special Night at the Museum, Anarchist Memoirs, will feature a talk and reading from Professor Esther Leslie FBA @afoggyplace on her late mother's recollections of the anarchist bookshop run by her own father, Charles Lahr, a place that became the haunt of Jomo…

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Book for Wednesday's Night at the Museum Anarchist Memoirs by Esther Leslie about Charlie Lahr, her grandfather. Connections between anarchism, Pan-Africanism, lady Chatterley's Lover and Somers Town. We play good records after... aspaceforus.club/whats-on/


Unvarnished views from local residents on housing for @nlalondon panel Jo McCafferty from architects #LevittBernstein (repairs: -3!; Housing: 10) & a guided visit to #Oakshott #Ossulston estates with glorious community courtyards ...at risk? A #conservationarea for #socialhousing

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Unvarnished views from local residents on housing for @nlalondon panel Jo McCafferty from architects #LevittBernstein (repairs: -3!; Housing: 10) & a guided visit to #Oakshott #Ossulston estates with glorious community courtyards ...at risk? A #conservationarea for #socialhousing

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Yep! proud to be hosting a housing talk 'n walk with local residents to share lived experience of council/housing association for a @nlalondon report Thursday. Hoping it sheds light ...steel yourselves! (;-)

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This Friday - Art in Everyday Life Guided Walk: Gilbert Bayes Social Housing Heritage Trail. Our second @bloomsburyfest walk explores the decorative arts and humanist ethos of the St Pancras Housing Association in its centenary year. We’ll begin at @ArtWorkersGuild - an…

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Thanks to @afoggyplace, @bloomsburyfest - and a great audience - for Women's Way's and Missions on Saturday, linking these two historic London neighbourhoods through the lives of radicals and reformers who walked through them before us!

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This Saturday - Women’s Ways and Missions, a guided walk we’re running as part of @bloomsburyfest . The walk led by @afoggyplace uses ‘stream-of-consciousness’ techniques to plot and unplot a route and a set of connections and disconnections between Bedford Square in Bloomsbury…

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Several Inner London boroughs, and boroughs in the North and East of the city, have higher levels of poverty. Camden, Westminster, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Barking & Dagenham, Redbridge and Wandsworth all have poverty rates higher than the London average

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Does anyone know the artists who started this Poster workshop Camden 1968-71? Would love to find out more. Getting into the anarchist theme ahead of our talk on the 30th by @afoggyplace on her anarchist grandad #CharlieLahr. #radicalscreenprinting


This Saturday - Women’s Ways and Missions, a guided walk we’re running as part of @bloomsburyfest . The walk led by @afoggyplace uses ‘stream-of-consciousness’ techniques to plot and unplot a route and a set of connections and disconnections between Bedford Square in Bloomsbury…

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