Photo of a page of The Irish Post newspaper. Read my article here https://www.irishpost.com/features/1000-years-of-irelands-history-in-a-london-cemetery-307401

Photo taken (by me) on a sunny day of the Reed Celtic Cross in Abney Park Cemetery, London N16

For a preview of my upcoming #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ talk at the 2026 @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social - "One Thousand Years of Ireland's History in Abney Park Cemetery" - check out this week's issue of The Irish Post 💚 /1
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Discover everything happening at the Hackney History Festival 2026 — from talks and tours to music, workshops, and more across the borough this May.

📍 Pick up your copy at:
Hackney Archives
Stoke Newington Bookshop
Pages Bookshop

#HackneyHistoryFestival #HackneyEvents

✊ “Not a thing was moving” The 1926 General Strike in Hackney

Step back into one of the most dramatic moments in British history and explore how the General Strike unfolded in Hackney.

🎟️ Get your ticket now and join us to learn more!

#HackneyHistoryFestival

🔆Join us for the launch of Hackney History Festival 2026!
👓 Preview of map exhibition
🎤Short taster talks from many of the speakers featured in the festival.
🎤Also hear from Charlie Peel, and David Williams, about their work.

#hackney #history #festival #maps #london

Join the Hackney Community Orchestra at the Hackney History Festival for a special event featuring fascinating film footage of Hackney, accompanied by live music celebrating the borough's rich and diverse community.

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#HackneyHistoryFestival

Join the Hackney Community Orchestra at the Hackney History Festival for a special event featuring fascinating film footage of Hackney, accompanied by live music celebrating the borough's rich and diverse community.

Get your ticket now! 🎻

#HackneyHistoryFestival

Buy tickets – Ride - History Cycle: A bike tour of Hackney – 75 Downs Rd, E5 8DS Ride - History Cycle: A bike tour of Hackney – 75 Downs Rd, E5 8DS, Sun 24 May 2026 - The Pickwick Bicycle Club, founded in Hackney in 1870, is the world’s oldest cycling association. The ride will st...

Another year, another History Cycle. Join me for a bike tour of Hackney, part of @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social, on Sunday 24 May, 4pm–6pm. All proceeds go to Leaside's cycling projects. Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...

📢 Interested in #IrishLondonHistory?
At the wonderful Hackney History Festival, I'll be exploring 1000 (!) years of Ireland's history through the Reed Celtic Cross in Stoke Newington's Abney Park Cemetery ☘️
Sun 10 May, 3 pm, Sutton House, London E9. Tix only £3 😀
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☘️ Discover the story behind the Celtic Cross at Abney Park Cemetery.

At the Hackney History Festival 2026, speaker Breda Corrish will explore Hackney’s fascinating connections with Ireland and the history behind this remarkable monument.

Get your ticket now!

#HackneyHistory

Join the talk at Hackney Archives on Saturday 9 May, where Izzie will share fascinating discoveries from the archives about Hackney Society and the borough’s history.

📅 More talks and events are listed at the end of this video — get your tickets now and come along!

#HackneyHistoryFestival

Tickets now live! Get them here buytickets.at/hackneyhisto...
#hackney #history #walk #london

Hackney History Festival Day Pass tickets are now on sale!

Tag your history-loving friends and make a day of it.
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#hackney #history #festival #london

Hackney Brutalist icon - Join @HackneySociety for a guided visit to Haggerston School (Ernö Goldfinger, 1964–67), Grade II listed & refurbed 2012 (Avanti). Sat 28 Feb 2026, 10:30–12:30 (arr 10:15), E2 8LS. £5/£10. Book via Eventbrite—Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/visit-hagg...

Her story is one of eleven being told in our upcoming film, Women From Hackney's History, premiering at the @riocinema.bsky.social on #InternationalWomensDay!

The Hackney Pavilion closed in 1972, its last film was Carry on at your Convenience.

It was opposite the Hackney Empire and was finally demolished in 1972 and replaced by a soulless branch of Barclays Bank.
#History #HistoryMatters #London

WHITE HOUSE Inn Hackney Marsh (on Essex Side), 1910 Showing footbridge over river Lea in distance Steam Locomotive Repair shed now New Spitalfields Fruit & Vegetable & Flowers Wholesale market

👋HELLO Hackney and welcome to the UK's largest children's literature festival! We're providing 2,000 new places FREE for primary schools in Hackney for the first time on Thursday 4 June thanks to our friends @hackneyempire.bsky.social Check out our full programme here www.londonschoolslitfest.org

Look forward to hearing more..

How to Survive in Tudor England, Guest Post by @tonihistorian: While Cromwell was rebuilding the King’s Place, his one-time secretary, Ralph Sadleir, was busy constructing a grand three-story brick house in Hackney, on Homerton Street. historicalfictionblog.com/how-to-survi...

Interesting! We've a talk about this in May..

Amazing idea.. Were they supportive?

Let’s get even more London kids enjoying travelling by bike - pedalling not polluting- The next free Kidical Mass bike ride is on March 15th - Granary Square to Hackney! 🚲 🌼 🚲 🌼 🚲 🌼 🚲 🌼 🔈 🔊 🎵 📣 Join us 🚲

#StreetsForKids #KidicalMass #KidicalMassLond

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A clipping from The Morning Post, 31 January 1912: HACKNEY MARSHES. — Good ice to the extent of several acres is to be found near the ground of the Clapton Orient Football Club. This may be reached by taking train from Liverpool-street to Clapton or Broad-street to Homerton.

Important environmental news from Millfields Road, reported in the Morning Post on 31 January 1912: “Good ice to the extent of several acres is to be found near the ground of the Clapton Orient Football Club”. #lofcpress

On London Extra: Chinese connections Past, present and future. Plus elections intelligence, housing supply news and more

Latest edition of On London Extra considers the capital's connections with China, past, present and future. Plus borough elections intel from Redbridge and Hackney, underwhelming news about housing supply and more: davehillonlondon.substack.com/p/on-london-.... #london #china

The Clapton tollgate, located on Lea Bridge Road, Hackney, was a 18th-century turnpike checkpoint on the Clapton side of the River Lea. Established to manage traffic crossing Leyton marshes, this, along with the adjacent toll house and timber bridge built around 1757, operated until 1872. The site is near the modern-day Lea Bridge roundabout.

The Clapton tollgate, located on Lea Bridge Road, Hackney, was a 18th-century turnpike checkpoint on the Clapton side of the River Lea. Established to manage traffic crossing Leyton marshes,

1 - 5 Westgate Street Hackney 1890. Showing Willmots Decorator and Contractors and on the left, the rear of a fire brigade (or Society for the preservation of life from fire) escape ladder.

1 - 5 Westgate Street Hackney 1890. Showing Willmots Decorator and Contractors and on the left, the rear of a fire brigade (or Society for the preservation of life from fire) escape ladder.

Introduction to ride leader and ride leader and ride marshal/assistant: Hackney and Women's Network - London Cycling Campaign This course is an introduction to the role of Ride Marshal, sometimes also known as Ride Assistant, and Ride Leader with London Cycling Campaign. This session is specifically to prepare […]

Want to help marshal or lead a feeder ride to the start of the next London Kidical Mass ride?

Join this free training on Sunday 15th February at 2pm from Hackney Town Hall organised by @londoncycling.bsky.social and @hackneylcc.bsky.social lcc.org.uk/events/intro...

A peek upstairs at Kings Hall (Hackney Baths) with local historian and guide, Sue Doe (Hackney Society Tour Guiding Course): Victorian stair tiles, iron balustrades, stained glass and cast-iron fireplaces. Read our newsletter Spaces for more details: hackneysociety.org #HackneyBaths #KingsHall

Explore the architecture that defined modern Hackney.
Twentieth-Century Buildings in Hackney highlights key civic, housing & community buildings that shaped the borough through the 1900s.
Get your copy & support local heritage:
www.hackneysociety.org/publications...
#Hackney #Architecture #Heritage

Hackney once shaped global botany.
A Mare Street nursery influenced kew gardens, St Petersburg & Australia, and helped create Europe’s largest arboretum at Abney Park.
Discover the story: www.hackneysociety.org/publications...
#HackneyHistory #Books