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Aerial photo of prefabs built after WW2 in Clissold Crescent, Stoke Newington - other local sites included Queen Elizabeth Walk and Bouverie Rd. I’d love to see some close-up local pics eg family photos, if any one can help? #StokeNewington Stoke Newington History

Oh no! Just catching up on the news of the death of one of my favourite writers - Phil Rickman. I loved his Merrily Watkins series of novels which drew on local folklore, conjuring an atmospheric sense of place in and around the English-Welsh borders. RIP Phil.

What a thing! A 1903 Suffragette defaced penny, in the collection of the British Museum.

This Friday evening, join me for the last Angel Ghost Walk of the year! From Islington Green, meandering to the ancient Canonbury Tower, this area crackles with weirdness👻Click on QR code in poster to book #ghostwalk #uncanny #islington #canonbury #LondonFortean #ghosts

As a quietly-spoken young journalist amidst the loud press throng, John Prescott used to shout at me: 'Speak up, Caron!' He once signalled for me to walk around a corridor, where he gave me a story everyone else had missed. I liked him very much.

Just on - join me for the final two ghost walks of the year! #StokeNewington #Stokey #NewingtonGreen #ButterfieldGreen

Adele has been accused of sabotaging the sale of a £6m mansion she used to live in by its owners, who claim she once said it was haunted. Adele said [in an interview], 'It gives me the creeps' [but did not use the word 'haunted']. ⬇️👻🏡MORE DETAILS🏡👻⬇️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Finally, remains of Roman London's basilica! At least it was where we thought it would be... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It was the first chance to hear the new #AbneyPark 'audio tour' for most of us on today's panel, including the author and the actor who brought her lived experience to the telling of Harriet Delph's story. A masterclass in investigative research + sound artistry Abney Park Trust👏

Artemisia Gentileschi, The Birth of Saint John the Baptist c. 1635. (Museo Nacional del Prado)

Our Milton Keynes field team recently discovered a rare 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗱-𝗮𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 in the topsoil during excavations near Northampton! While barbed and tanged arrowheads of flint are typically linked to the 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲

A walk through Clissold Park tonight, as the bell rang #StokeNewington

I very much look forward to Tony Rich's Hackney History Festival talk, Stoke Newington at War: Hidden Stories of Resistance and Survival, about Stoke Newington during WW2. One of London’s smallest boroughs, Stoke Newington played a vital role in Britain’s home defence, with its

People keep asking for more, so here they are - two atmospheric guided tours exploring local history with a twist #StokeNewington #uncanny #ghosts #tours

You HAVE to watch this... an eccentric tour of London oddities from the mid-1970s. It's just brilliant londonist.com/london/videos/…

Spring is here!

This is high art

It’s now confirmed that Toby Carvery did indeed fell the Whitewebbs Oak, on the same day that evidence is emerging the tree may have been 500 years old. The lame excuse they gave that the tree was “dead” is not only false (ecologists have found green buds on the felled branches)

Myths aren't historical records. But, says Emily Hauser, for centuries, (mostly male) archaeologists have got this wrong, searching for the “reality” behind legendary sites like Troy. Yet there is history to discover behind the myths, as she explains at historiamag.com/real-women-gre…

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’, ‘stung by a scorpion’, and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 From Deir el-Medina worker’s village. Written in Hieratic script. 📷 by me #Archaeology