Borough High Street Archives

Abdul K. Kpakpa-Quartey: a Pan Africanist in 1920s Borough High Street

Jul

23

2022

Recently I was browsing through the 1922 Post Office Directory in Southwark Archives, just looking at what was on Borough High Street one hundred years ago. One entry that caught my eye was for number 169 Borough High Street, listed as the address for three organisations: the Gold Coast National Aid Society, the Inter-African Moslem ...

Abdul K. Kpakpa-Quartey: a Pan Africanist in 1920s Borough High Street

Jul

23

2022

Recently I was browsing through the 1922 Post Office Directory in Southwark Archives, just looking at what was on Borough High Street one hundred years ago. One entry that caught my eye was for number 169 Borough High Street, listed as the address for three organisations: the Gold Coast National Aid Society, the Inter-African Moslem ...

‘your discovery was my land, my discovery is your borders’

Dec

21

2019

This work by Glasgow-based Iranian artist Iman Tajik was recently displayed in the window of the new building on corner of Borough High Street and Marshalsea Road SE1. Referencing the 1951 UN convention on refugees it proclaimed 'your discovery was my land, my discovery is your borders'. Wonder whether the artist was aware that this building ...

The Tarot Tour of London

Oct

1

2015

The Wheel of Fortune card from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck - co-designed by A.E.Waite who has an interesting connection with the Horniman MuseumComing up next week (Thursday October 8th) at South East London Folklore Society:'The Tarot Tour of London uses 22 of the major historical sites as the basis of the tour as they ...

Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods

Jan

13

2015

Coming up at South East London Folklore Society next month, a talk by writer Thomas Bolton - 'Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods':'London is in a state of constant transformation, layer upon layer built up over centuries of destruction and reconstruction. There is so much change all around us that we scarcely notice it, but among ...

Marcus Garvey in Borough High Street

Nov

25

2014

A friend told me recently that the great Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) once lived in Borough High Street, which sent me scurrying to the library to find out moreAccording to Colin Grant's biography, 'Negro with a Hat: the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey' (2008), Garvey first came to London from Jamaica in the Spring ...

Ruin Lust

Apr

29

2014

A couple of weeks left at Tate Britain of 'Ruin Lust', the exhibition tracing artists' fascination with ruins from the 18th century onwards. London features heavily, with Transpontine content including:Photographs by Henry Dixon of old inns facing demolition, commissioned by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London in the 1880s. This one is of ...

London’s Myths & Legends at South East London Folklore Society

Apr

1

2014

Coming up at South East London Folklore Society on Thursday 10th April:Robert Stephenson: London's Myths & Legends.In legend London was inaugurated by the fabled Trojan leader Brutus with the construction of a temple dedicated to Diana on the spot now occupied by St Paul's Cathedral. Hear about the city’s legends and founding myths, and their ...

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Abdul K. Kpakpa-Quartey: a Pan Africanist in 1920s Borough High Street

Abdul K. Kpakpa-Quartey: a Pan Africanist in 1920s Borough High Street

‘your discovery was my land, my discovery is your borders’

The Tarot Tour of London

Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods

Marcus Garvey in Borough High Street

Ruin Lust

London’s Myths & Legends at South East London Folklore Society