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Lambeth heritage festival highlights of week 4 September 23-30 2018 L-R: colour photo of funfair; B&w photo back doors of WW2 van with 'duck for doodlebugs' message in chalk; colour illusration from Brer Anansi pantomime/childrens book - young man in striped t shirt and bowler hat with spiderweb design in eaves above his head

Lambeth Heritage Festival September 2018: Week Four highlights Sept 23-30

September marks the sixth Lambeth Heritage Festival. Lambeth Archives has worked with the Lambeth Local History Forum to put together a rich and innovative programme of more than 90...

Lambeth Heritage Festival September 2018: Week Three highlights 16 – 22 Sept

September marks the sixth Lambeth Heritage Festival. Lambeth Archives has worked with the Lambeth Local History Forum to put together a rich and innovative programme of more than 90...

Lambeth heritage festival highlights of week 9-16 Sept. 2018 L-R: msic hall poster for the Craggs, Victorian acrobats; poster with stork flying over red car childrens or naive drawing from Polish arts festival; watercolour of Lambeth Palace

Lambeth Heritage Festival September 2018

September marks the sixth Lambeth Heritage Festival

Month long events at Lambeth heritage festival 2018 L-R Flotilla Brixton design Trail concrete boats used as planetr at Southwyck House; London Fire BrigadeB&W photo of Albert Embankment w/1940s fire engines; Immortalised - statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett onn plinth reading 'courage calls out to courage'

Lambeth Heritage Festival September 2018: events open all month

September marks the sixth Lambeth Heritage Festival. Lambeth Archives has worked with the Lambeth Local History Forum to put together a programme of more than 90 walks, talks, events,...

Steel band at Lambeth Festival, 1961

A Snapshot of Brixton: Harry Jacobs and the Empire Windrush

An exhibition of iconic 1960s photographs depicting members of the Windrush generation are going on display as part of the Empire Windrush 70th anniversary celebrations.

sepia tint/muted colour photo of crowd in Victorian costume on Kennington Common 1848 ready to deliver petition for right to vote to Parliament

Commemorate 1848’s Chartist rally on Kennington Common

On 10 April 1848, thousands of Londoners planned to march from Kennington to Parliament to deliver a petition with 2 million signatures asking for the right to vote. The...