History - Hackney Citizen

Hackney jazz duo mark 50 years at Ronnie Scott’s

The pair met in a shed in 1976 and bought a Stoke Newington house together a decade later

Author: Ellie Waterhouse

Hackney jazz duo mark 50 years at Ronnie Scott’s

Bomb sites, go-karts and gas fires

Henry Say's memoir of a 1950s Shadwell childhood captures a docker's street in loving detail — just as containerisation was about to sweep it away

Author: Sarah Birch

Rio Cinema founder Clara Ludski to be honoured with memorial plaque

The Hackney Society is currently fundraising for the plaque and hopes to unveil it next month

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Stoke Newington venue under threat as bosses scramble to ‘save’ historic space

The Old Church’s director says urgent repair work is needed to secure the future of the much-loved music venue

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Stoke Newington venue under threat as bosses scramble to ‘save’ historic space

'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

Ken Worpole and Gareth Evans: Brightening from the East

Worpole ponders the relationship between East London and the East of England, and commemorates the work of John Berger in the centenary year of his birth in Stoke Newington

Author: Sarah Birch

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

Redundancies at Sutton House could have 'dramatic impact', warns heritage group

Hackney Society alarmed over plans, which National Trust says are still under consultation

Author: Catriona Harrison

"A kingdom of her own in Hackney": Sutton House. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Pas de Chats? How Hackney’s unsung Arkestra inspired a mural for the ages

Chats Palace Arkestra wanted an artistic experiment for the community, and four decades on, they got more than they bargained for

Author: Max Finkel

Pas de Chats? How Hackney’s unsung Arkestra inspired a mural for the ages

Renowned minister’s ‘radical hymns’ to be celebrated at Abney Park event tomorrow

Talk on the ‘controversial’ writer and theologian Isaac Watts to be delivered as part of park trust’s ‘Radical Writers’ festival

Author: Hackney Citizen

Renowned minister’s ‘radical hymns’ to be celebrated at Abney Park event tomorrow

‘Art for the people’: How Dalston’s enduring peace mural captured a community

Hackney History Festival revisits radical, melancholy chronicle of iconic artwork never seen by its author

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘Art for the people’: How Dalston’s enduring peace mural captured a community

V&A East Storehouse to open this weekend - with a 'huge trove' of treasures to comb through

The Citizen was given a peek inside the museum's huge depository, which members of the public can peruse from 31 May

Author: Sarah Birch

V&A East Storehouse to open this weekend - with a 'huge trove' of treasures to comb through