In depth history

In 1977, Camberwell was rocked by a particularly depraved news story. Vandals had broken into a derelict church on Burgess...

According to his legendary diary, written between 1660 and 1669, Samuel Pepys watched the Great Fire of London unfold from...

Fifty years ago I was a pupil at St Michael and All Angels secondary modern school in Camberwell. One of...

In this space age, the importance of a good brush or broom has diminished. There was an art to making...

A football that was dribbled through no man’s land by British soldiers now resides in Camberwell, over 100 years after...

For over 167 years, a four-mile canal snaked its way through Southwark, supplying south London with everything from timber to...

So much in Bermondsey reminds us of the Rolls family. For a start, Rolls Road is named after them and...

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve written articles about various steam road vehicles which passed through or originated in...

Forty years on from the notorious Bermondsey by-election that was marred by homophobia, Peter Tatchell has spoken about his secret...

In the past five articles I’ve been talking about manufacturers and experimenters with mechanically driven road transport in Greenwich in...