When the Covid-19 lock-down stopped live talks happening, many forum members started putting talks on-line; some were recorded, so that they could be watched again by a further audience. Post lock-down, some are still being done on-line and others live, but again, recorded.
We list many that are still available, together with some other talks of Lambeth history interest.
TITLE
ABOUT
SPEAKER
DATE
Anarchist in The UK
- Louise Michel,
heroine of the Paris Commune
the event-filled life of Louise Michel, a heroine of the 1871 Paris Commune, her visit to the Lambeth workhouse in Kennington and her residence at various addresses in south London Friends of Tate South Lambeth Libraries / Vauxhall History talk.
Naomi Clifford, history writer,
Stockwell resident
How the neighbourhood around Abbeville Road came to be built when, in the 1880s, the mansions around Clapham Common were being demolished and new roads laid out.
A Clapham Society talk in the Lambeth Heritage Festival.
late 19th century, the cycling craze seen through the lens
of the south London cycling scene.
A Streatham Society talk in the Lambeth Heritage Festival.
Knowledge is Power:
The Battle for Lambeth’s Free Libraries
the angry campaigns of the 1870s and 1880s to establish free libraries in Lambeth, and the legacy of that service up to today.
A Lambeth Archives' Local History in Lock-down talk.
how this part of South London has been represented by writers as diverse as William Blake, Charles Dickens, Jake Arnott and Alex Wheatle.
A Lambeth Archives' Local History in Lock-down talk.
An introduction to the book written by the late Peter Jefferson Smith, completed and published by the Clapham Society after his death, in his memory. A Clapham Society talk at the Lambeth Heritage Festival 2020.
Alyson Wilson, with Andrew Saint
and Timothy Walker.
Militant Activity: Chess
in Victorian Lambeth
and Beyond
From a game of the elite, all classes got a taste for the joy of chess during the second half of the 19th century, when vigorous chess clubs got going in Brixton and Streatham.
A Streatham Society talk in the Lambeth Heritage Festival.
the history and disappearance of the underground river that
still flows through Lambeth and its course today
A Lambeth Archives' Local History in Lock-down talk.
a walk around this historic settlement taking in two places
of worship, two schools, two breweries, and a vanished
village green.
A Brixton Society talk in the Lambeth Heritage Festival.