Hackney History Online Resources overview
The Friends are releasing a huge range of articles taken from our journal Hackney History and newsletter The Hackney Terrier on a diverse range of topics to enable Hackney’s history to be read online – and mapped on Layers of London website. You can now read Hackney’s Histories in back copies of our Hackney History journal. And read The Hackney Terrier Newsletters containing shorter articles, many illustrated, on an even wider range of subjects.
Each edition of the former Hackney Today council newspaper carried an article on an aspect of local history, written by the Archives’ staff. This is a wonderful source of information on a wide 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.
Hackney Archives are the principal source of historical sources for understanding Hackney’s history. Their summary `History and heritage of Hackney’ provides a brief overview. The Archives’ easily searchable Online Catalogue reveals photographs, plans and the documents they hold. There are many other online resources. The Local Studies Library at the Archives has a wide selection of local history books on open shelf.
There are a number of local societies and organisations in and around Hackney that aim to promote understanding of many aspects of our history. They inform people through talks, walks, meetings, newsletters and other publications, and in various social media.
Other resources around the web
Walk Hackney – walkhackney.co.uk/ – offering self-guided walks
The History of Stoke Newington – https://stokenewingtonhistory.com/
Horrid Hackney – horridhackney.com/
Spitalfields Life – spitalfieldslife.com/ by the gentle author
Historic England – Greater London Historic Environment Record – https://glher.historicengland.org.uk/
The Local Heritage Hub at historicengland.org.uk/local – mostly Listed Buildings
Museum of London – museumoflondon.org.uk/
MOLA – Archaeology – mola.org.uk/blog/
Alan Russell‘s eclectic twitter / X collection of photographs of Hackney – @soxgnasher
London Historians – londonhistorians.wordpress.com/ /
Lea Bridge Heritage – http://leabridge.org.uk