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Anna Mason: Head of Heritage at St John’s Gate

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St John has dominated the southern tip of Clerkenwell for more than 900 years but may still be Islington’s best-kept secret. Here Head of Collections and Public Engagement, Anna Mason, shares the many wonderful offerings from its historic buildings and 100-year-old museum, to its community programmes. Interview by Nicola Baird.…

Writers’ workshop during Inspiring Islington

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Everyone has a story – but sometimes it’s hard to move it on to paper. During the Inspiring Islington photo exhibition at Islington Museum (which you can still catch, it ends 3 June) six brave people came to share their stories and hone their interviewing technique with Nicola Baird.  This…

Anita Grant: joint founder Islington4women

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Everybody has a story. Play guru Anita Grant is also the joint founder of Islington4women – a group of voluntary sector leaders, council officers and local councillors who champion the view that Islington is a good place to be a woman. Q&A with Nicola Baird. You can join the discussion…

INVITATION to plan an Islington Faces exhibition 2019

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Everyone has a story. You are invited to share ideas about how to make Islington Faces’ upcoming exhibition at Islington Museum in 2019 successful. Meetings are on Thursdays at the Blackstock Kitchen, 136 Blackstock Road (Sep 25, Oct 4, 11, 18 & 25). First meeting is this Thursday, 25 September, 11am-12noon. Islington…

Roz Currie: Islington Museum curator

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Everyone has a story. Islington Museum has a special way of capturing the stories of people and places in our borough. Meet their new curator, Roz Currie, who’s just opened a show about fire – Islington Burning – and is now researching a new exhibition about Holloway Prison (which closed…

Oonagh Gay: inspiring London walks

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Everyone has a story. Oonagh Gay may have retired in June 2015 from running the Parliament & Constitution Centre, which she set up at the House of Commons Library 15 years ago, but she’s now able to focus on her passion for local history and run some great weekend walks –…
Mark Aston: Islington Museum & Local History Centre Manager

Mark Aston: Islington Museum & Local History Centre Manager

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Any idea what you do if you want to find out more about your Islington roots – either your family or the places you know in the borough? Or maybe you want to know more about Tufnell Park, Clerkenwell or the people who’ve lived in Islington…
Samir Singh: Arsenal in the Community

Samir Singh: Arsenal in the Community

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story.  How well do you know what Arsenal does – besides the beautiful game of course? Samir Singh, better known as Sami, has lived in Islington all his life and already had two dream jobs – one at Islington Museum and the next at Arsenal. Here he…
Chris P: canal enthusiast

Chris P: canal enthusiast

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Everyone has a story on the Islington Faces Blog.  Here’s just a little about the magic of the canal – a passion that brings Chris P to the London Canal Museum as a regular volunteer. Interview by Nicola Baird. “It’s only 200 years ago the canal was built,” said Chris on the…
Alex Smith: heritage assistant

Alex Smith: heritage assistant

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Everyone has a story on the Islington Faces Blog. Alex Smith from Islington Local History Centre and Islington Museum helps keep many more local stories live and accessible – a hard task when you realise that there are more than 100,000 pieces of information stored on site at the Finsbury office. Interview…