In addition to the articles in our journal Hackney History, and newsletter The Hackney Terrier featured on our History Online page, these books are recommended, among others, to learn about Hackney’s History in more detail.
A Select Hackney History Bibliography
Alex Allardyce, The Village that Changed the World (about Newington Green)
Julian Bowsher, Shakespeare’s London Theatreland
Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 4: North
Carolyn Clark and Linda Wilkinson, The Shoreditch Tales
Benjamin Clarke, Glimpses of Ancient Hackney and Stoke Newington
Kate Colquhoun, Mr Briggs’ Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain’s First Railway Murder
Judith Flanders, The Victorian City: Everyday life in Dickens’ London
Hackney Society, Famous Women of Hackney
Hackney Society, Hackney Houses
Hackney Society, From Tower to Tower Block
Hackney Society, South Shoreditch: Historic and Industrial Buildings
Katie Haslam, A History of the Geffrye Almshouses
Michael Hunter The Victorian Villas of Hackney
A S Jasper, A Hoxton Childhood
Paul Joyce, A Guide to Abney Park Cemetery
Michael Leapman, The Ingenious Mr Fairchild
Elizabeth McKellar, The German Hospital, Hackney A Social and Architectural History
David Mander, A Hackney Century 1900-1999
David Mander, Britain in Old Photographs: Hackney, Homerton and Dalston
David Mander, Michael Kirkland and Martin Taylor, Impressions of Hackney 1861-2001
David Mander, Late Extra! Hackney in the News
David Mander, Look Back, Look Forward: an illustrated history of Stoke Newington
David Mander, More Light, More Power (about Shoreditch)
David Mander, St John-at-Hackney: The story of a church
David Mander and Bill Manley, Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill & Upper Clapton in Old Photographs
David Mander, Strength in the Tower (about Hackney)
Christopher Miele Hoxton – Architecture and History Over Five Centuries
Lisa Rigg (Ed.), Hackney: Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored
Elizabeth Robinson, Twentieth Century Buildings of Hackney
Elizabeth Robinson, Lost Hackney
Iain Sinclair, Hackney, the Red Rose Empire
David Solman, Loddiges of Hackney
Maureen Specht, The German Hospital in London & the Community it Served
Keith Sugden with Kieron Tyler, Under Hackney – The Archaeological Story
Geoff Taylor, A Parish in Perspective. A history of the church and parish of St John of Jerusalem, South Hackney
Isobel Watson, Hackney and Stoke Newington Past
Isobel Watson, Gentlemen in the Building Trade (about South Hackney)
Margaret Willes (ed), Hackney: An Uncommon History in Five Parts
Sarah Wise, The Blackest Streets
Sarah Wise, The Italian Boy
Hackney Today
Each edition of Hackney Today carried an article on an aspect of local history, written by the Archives’ staff. This is a wonderful source of information on a huge variety of topics. Past issues of Hackney Today feature the articles on page 23 of earlier issues, and page 25 of later ones.
Click here for a list of Hackney Today articles by subject matter, up to 2015.
The Local Studies Library at Hackney Archives houses a wide selection of reading on Hackney’s past, mostly on open shelf, as well as historic maps, local newspapers and other sources. The Hackney Archives is located in the CLR James Library in Dalston.
