Listen to Rowan Lennon’s fascinating podcast on Mary Hays (1759–1843) - an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous (and infamous) women.
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This January marks the 112th anniversary of the Tottenham Outrage. The online talk given by Alan Gartrell focused on the context of the Outrage and reveals Abney Park's links to the event.
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Join British writer, musician, poet, and comedian, John Hegley, on Saturday 30 Jan at 11am for a virtual workshop on creative drawing and writing as part of a fundraiser for Abney Park Trust.
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On Wednesday 10 February at 7pm enjoy a second opportunity to take a virtual after-dark historical tour of Abney Park and experience the sinister side of 19th Century London with local guide, writer and storyteller, Hackney Tours.
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On 31 March at 7pm, join poet and writer Chris McCabe online as he shares his findings from his forthcoming book, Buried Garden (October 2021), which documents the lost poets of Abney Park Cemetery.
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Watch the recording of Alan Gartrell’s fascinating and moving talk on war grave arrangements and how and why we commemorate the war dead in the way we do.
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Join us on Thursday 17 December at 7pm for Sam Perrin’s online talk on Abney's own Wizard of the South, Barnardo (a.k.a Barney) Eagle, whose rivalry with Professor Anderson (the famed Wizard of the North) makes today's celebrity Twitter spats pale into insignificance.
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Abney Park Trust gathered together musicians and artists from across Hackney to commemorate Remembrance Sunday. Watch the recording of the event.
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Watch the recording of Angelina Osborne’s online talk on 'Joanna Vassa: An imagined life', as part of our Black History Month events.
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Watch a recording of Burt Caesar’s talk, in which he considers three diasporic locations which precede the current so-called ‘Windrush Scandal’, a twenty-first century iteration of a ‘hostile environment’.
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Watch 'Your Own, Your Very Own', a documentary detailing the life and times of the music hall stars buried in Abney Park, presented by Colin Sell, of Radio 4's Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
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Abney Park Trust hosted an online event to mark the 80th anniversary of the Coronation Avenue bombing in 1940. Watch the recording.
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Watch the recording of Dr Romany Reagan’s lecture exploring the Victorian garden cemetery today as a place for mortality mediation and shared community space.
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Take this self-guided tour to understand the symbolism of some of the memorials located in Abney Park.
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Listen to Rowan Lennon as she tells the story of the Victorian Music Hall, burlesque and panto star, Nellie Power.
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Take a personal tour of Abney Park’s rich heritage and wildlife using this guide. Route 1 features the chapel, war memorial, Bostock’s lion, Dr Isaac Watts and William Booth among other key figures.
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Listen to Alan Gartrell’s podcast in which he talks about slave narratives and Abney Park’s links with Abolitionist history.
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A number of key figures, who opposed abduction and enslavement and sought to establish various visions of a better world during the eighteenth and nineteenth century, are laid to rest in Abney Park Cemetery. Take this self-guided tour of Abney’s abolitionists.
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Watch 'Dawn Chorus: A Walk through Abney Park', filmed by Haydn S. which has a sombre tone to complement the macabre beauty of Abney Park.
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Enjoy the beautiful sights and sounds of the spring dawn chorus in Abney Park filmed one morning in April.
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