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  • Out and About in South London

      Historian feature
    In an unusual Out and About feature, the Young Historian Local History Senior Prize winner Flora Wilton Tregear shows us what her local area can tell us about the history of public health. Taking the DLR out from Lewisham you pass through Deptford Bridge station towards Greenwich. Here my father...
    Out and About in South London
  • The last battle: Bomber Command’s veterans and the fight for remembrance

      Historian article
    Frances Houghton examines how and why the popular memory of the Second World War continues to be contested. Early on the morning of Monday 21 January 2019, still-wet white gloss paint was discovered to have been thrown across the Bomber Command Memorial in London’s Green Park. The bronze sculpture of a...
    The last battle: Bomber Command’s veterans and the fight for remembrance