FREE LOCAL HISTORY TALKS AT ISLINGTON MUSEUM ST. JOHN'S STREET

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Medieval Meets Modern
Shooting Clerkenwell, Cripplegate and Finsbury
A photographic exhibition at
Islington Museum plus Local History Centre to 25 August 2012
In 2011 and early 2012 the City of London and Cripplegate Photographic Society documented
the area around where it has met since 1899. In collaboration with Islington heritage Services,
the result is an absorbing exhibition where the historical characteristics of the three featured
locations meet their modern-day counterparts.
Talks at Islington Museum
Thursday 12 July. 6.30pm. Admission Free.
A Century in Focus: a history of documentary photography. City of London and Cripplegate
Photographic Society member Alan Tucker looks at the history of documentary photography and
what photographers today can learn from photos taken 50 or even 100 years ago.
Thursday 19 July. 6.30pm. Admission Free.
Clerkenwell: change and renewal. Clerkenwell-based author and photographer, Alan
Ainsworth, will be joining us to explore his fascinating book Clerkenwell: change and renewal.
Using his own photographic work, he will illustrate and examine the wide range of factors which
have made regeneration a feature of the area throughout its history.
Tuesday 24 July. 6.30pm. Admission Free.
City Limits: industrial archaeology on the Islington & City border with Professor David
Perrett, Chairman of the Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society. This fascinating lecture
focuses on the industrial and social archaeology of the district containing Smithfield,
Charterhouse and Clerkenwell with its meat trades, hospitals, transport links and now lost
trades.
Tuesday 7 August. 6.30pm. Admission Free.
From A to B and Beyond: a brief history of typefounding in Islington. With some of the
largest typefoundries in London having once been located in the borough, local historian Chris
Rule offers a fascinating insight into a centuries-old local profession. Although the capital's
foundries are now long-gone, some of the buildings survive and their typographical heritage
lives on in the area.

Further information can be found at:
www.cityandcripplegate-ps.org
www.islington.gov.uk/heritage
Islington Museum and Local History Centre

245 St John Street, London EC1V 4NB