Indian women were often employed to care for British children, but some were abandoned on reaching UK A little over a century ago, a woman was abandoned, far from home, at King’s Cross station in ...

Continuing our series on London's local history museums. Two very different exhibits draw the eye as you walk into Hackney Museum. The first is a "confusing map" that stood at Dalston Junction for ...

Outrage, protest and vandalism ensued when what was proposed as a museum dedicated to women's history turned into a tourist trap for Jack the Ripper fans. The East End Women's Museum has been ...

This picture of a march in Southall, organised to protest against the death of Blair Peach and racist violence, was taken in 1979 This photograph of women in an Asian shop in Leicester will also be ...

You are in: London > London Local > Hackney > Spare Time > Exhibition honours Caribbean elders' contribution Empire Windrush Valley Fontaine, BBC London Black History Month comes to Hackney with many ...

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Hackney Council has named GuM Studios as winner of its contest for a £750,000 revamp of its community history museum in north-east London The practice, a sister company of Pringle Richards Sharratt, ...

Living in Ice Age Hackney was a contribution to the 2018 Being Human Festival of Humanities. We aimed to tell the story of Hackney’s ice age past through the objects held in the museum’s collection ...

The funding is the single biggest museum prize in the world, with judges praising the Hackney museum for being “truly inspirational”. The Young V&A beat four other finalists – Craven Museum in North ...

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History in Hackney, London, also displays ancient Chinese sex toys and the skull of a cyclops FORGET awe-inspiring art – Britain’s strangest ...