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Thanks to the @history.dulwichsociety.com team for their hard work culminating in the unveiling of the new Dulwich Volunteer Battalion information sign at the Lordship Lane war memorial this morning.

Thank you to all who came to the unveiling of the new information board about the Dulwich Volunteer Battalion, produced by @history.dulwichsociety.com and @lb-southwark.bsky.social. Credit to @patientgrissel.bsky.social Jeremy Prescott and @andysimmons10.bsky.social for the photos.

Thanks Gavin. You can find the talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8k1...

1/2 Mrs Patrick Campbell, born Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner 1865 lived some of her teenage years at Acacia Grove Dulwich. She became a leading actress at the turn of the century, playing Shakespeare and roles, inc Eliza Doolittle, written by George Bernard Shaw that she had inspired.

I love stumbling upon little free book exchange libraries.... this one in Dulwich, south London, even has a glass front built in to protect it from the elements! Love libraries. Books for life.

A lovely talk, online so you don't have to go out in this weather, and the proceeds go to London Wildlife Trust, a good charity. What's not to like? #Dulwich #LocalHistory www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Join #Dulwich #LocalHistory legend Brian Green at our next online talk about Edward Alleyn and his Fortune Theatre. 8pm, Tuesday 4 February. Tickets £5 to @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Our #IWD2025 Dulwich Society Women and Politics event is at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 4 March at @alleynsschool.bsky.social. Join Baroness Harriet Harman and a panel of senior female politicians to discuss feminism. equality and opportunity. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...

Join #Dulwich #LocalHistory legend Brian Green at our next online talk about Edward Alleyn and his Fortune Theatre. 8pm, Tuesday 4 February. Tickets £5 to @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Fascinating article includes school protests involving Dulwich College and Kingsdale schools in south London

Could anyone put me in touch with historic building listing inspectors or fieldworkers from the 1960s to 1980s? I'd like to hear their memories of listing surveys during that period for possible inclusion in a book on buildings archaeology 🙂 Picture Source: Historic England

A training session which may be of interest to #OnePlaceStudy and #LocalHistory researchers...

We are unveiling an information board about the Dulwich Volunteer Battalion. Please join us at the war memorial at the junction of Lordship Lane & the South Circular (near the Grove Tavern) at 11am on Saturday 8 February. #Dulwich #LocalHistory

Join #LocalHistory legend Brian Green at our next online talk all about Edward Alleyn's Fortune Theatre. 8pm on Tuesday 4 February. Tickets £5 to @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social #EarlyModern #History www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Thanks Gavin! The talk is here for those who missed it. #LocalHistory youtu.be/E8k1ipTZBHw?...

Join #LocalHistory legend Brian Green at our next online talk all about Edward Alleyn's Fortune Theatre. 8pm on Tuesday 4 February. Tickets £5 to @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social #EarlyModern #History www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

This is excellent news. Well done to all those who raised their voices and prevented the destruction of such valuable records.

Wasn’t it a good talk?! Jane was such a knowledgeable and engaging speaker. 10/10 would recommend! @fownc.org

It was perfect! Many thanks BlueArk!

TONIGHT! Online talk about some of the Dulwich residents now reposing in West Norwood Cemetery. Tickets £5, all proceeds to charity @fownc.org #LocalHistory www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Many thanks for sharing. Of interest to @history.dulwichsociety.com and @dulwichsociety.com too.

Alison Neilans from Friern Road, East Dulwich, militant suffragette who was force fed in prison, here depicted cleaning her stove in one of a series of ironic postcards produced c1910 by the Women’s Freedom League #Womeninhistory

Join us online for an hour of #Dulwich #LocalHistory in the New Year and support a great local charity at the same time (£5, bursary tickets also available). Your walks around West Norwood cemetery will never be the same again! @fownc1837.bsky.social www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Dulwich Covid Testing Centre February 2021 @history.dulwichsociety.com

Join us online for an hour of #Dulwich #LocalHistory in the New Year and support a great local charity at the same time (£5, bursary tickets also available). Your walks around West Norwood cemetery will never be the same again! @fownc1837.bsky.social www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Alice Vickery Drysdale one of first five women to practice medicine in UK, a firm believer in birth control as a basic requirement for emancipation of women. She lived in Penge, later West Dulwich. This family card was sent out in 1913, Alice seated left, partner Charles with Bessie (DIL) & Eva (GC)

Join us online for an hour of #Dulwich #LocalHistory in the New Year and support a great local charity at the same time (£5, bursary tickets also available). Your walks around West Norwood cemetery will never be the same again! @fownc1837.bsky.social www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Congratulations to Brian, he is indeed a local legend. All our volunteers are fantastic and go the extra mile for Dulwich 👏

So great to see #Dulwich local legend and member of our group Brian Green in @balhnews.bsky.social newsletter for his Outstanding Individual Contribution to #LocalHistory. #Proud

Looking ahead: start the New Year with some #Dulwich #LocalHistory 😀 Join us for a great online talk: From Dulwich Streets to Eternal Rest: Stories of West Norwood's Buried Residents. Tuesday 7 January 2025, 8pm. All proceeds to @fownc1837.bsky.social www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2025/...

Find Kingswood Arts here: www.kingswoodarts.com

Great to be at Kingswood House yesterday with the other researchers for the unveiling of the new info board about the working people connected to the house plus lovely snippets of oral history and many photos. Well done Kingswood Arts! #Dulwich #LocalHistory

👇 Next Tuesday 👇 You won't want to miss Brian Green - he's forgotten more about Dulwich than the rest of us local historians ever knew! #Dulwich #LocalHistory

Can confirm that local historian and all-round legend Brian Green (aka Mr Green of the Village Toy Shop) will make this a great talk.👇

'After the war' 😢 Hope they made it. Thanks Gavin! #Dulwich #LocalHistory

👇 Next Tuesday 👇 You won't want to miss Brian Green - he's forgotten more about Dulwich than the rest of us local historians ever knew! #Dulwich #LocalHistory

#OTD 1879, advert for the 'Derbyshire' estate in East Dulwich (Melbourne, Ashbourne Groves etc). Ezekiel James Bailey, the builder, came from Derbyshire. More here: www.dulwichsociety.com/the-journal/...

#OTD 1887 Boris Karloff was born in Forest Hill Rd. He later lived on Landcroft & Friern Rds. Real name William Henry Pratt, he was famous for his horror film roles (and played the monster #actually, not the scientist 😏) #Frankenstein #Dulwich #LocalHistory www.dulwichsociety.com/people/boris...

Our next online #LocalHistory talk is on 3 December, 8pm. Join local legend Brian Green as he shows us some of the changes in Dulwich over time. All proceeds to local charity. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2024/...

OK we clearly don’t have the hang of tagging Bluesky accounts yet. This one’s for you @arsenalwfc.bsky.social and @peckhamtownfc.bsky.social 👇👇

Great to see Mary Phillip in last night’s @arsenalwfc programme. Mary coaches @peckhamtownfc who play in #Dulwich & is the only female manager of a senior men’s team. #LocalHistory