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Hackney Rugby Club veteran to share team’s rich history with anniversary book

Some 60 years after he put on a Hackney Rugby Club shirt for the very first time, former team member Richard McDonald is documenting its rich history

Author: Sidney Khan

'Be curious, be a detective' — Hackney Archives team member on the magic of the collection

After Hackney Archives was accredited last year, one of its archivists spoke to us about the importance of this impressive collection

Author: Julia Silverberg

'Be curious, be a detective' — Hackney Archives team member on the magic of the collection

Clapton station gets major revamp in restoration project that honours Victorian heritage

The Weaver Line station has been open since 1872

Author: Elspeth Rees

Hackney's once-famous forgotten family to be rediscovered as book republished with a twist

Hackney's horticultural history stretches back hundreds of years, and one of its most famous figures and his family are set to be celebrated in a republished book.

Author: Lizzie McAllister

The Lower Clapton Tales, Carolyn Clark, book review: plus ça change…

Think you know ‘Clop Ton’? We wager you’ll glean something new from this “charming book of memories, photographs and historical artefacts”

Author: Adam Barnett

Jubilee: Glyn Road girls celebrate the Queen's 25th year on the throne in this image from The Lower Clapton Tales. Photograph

A Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life

A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”

Author: Hackney Citizen

A.S. Jasper, who spent his childhood in "Dickensian" poverty in Hoxton. Image: Spitalfields Life Books

New phone app to gift locals a “poetic satnav” of Hackney and its history

a hackney autobiography, created by social enterprise On The Record, uses the oral history, music and GPS technology to create spellbinding ‘audio tours’

Author: Hackney Citizen

"Magical": the splash screen of a hackney autobiography's website, with illustrations by Joanna Layla