Local author Simon Keable-Elliott tells the extraordinary story of the life of his grandfather: the Croydon schoolboy, African missionary, WW1 chaplain and author of the scandalous bestselling war novel – […]
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw considerable innovation and rapid change in Croydon. By chance, an itinerant watercolourist, Evacustes Phipson, was engaged by Croydon Reference Library to record […]
£3 suggested donation for non-members. Click here for more information https://cnhss.co.uk/our-event-programme-for-2023/ One of the zeppelin raids on Croydon took place on 13 October 1915. Soon after 11 o’clock, a listener […]
The talk accompanies an exhibition of Phipson’s paintings in the atrium of Croydon Clocktower, open until 27 September. Click here for more information and to book your free place https://cnhss.co.uk/phipson-at-croydon/
By the First World War most of Croydon’s ancient buildings had been lost without a pictorial record. After his earliest known visit in 1893, the painter Evacustes Phipson returned on […]
Talk by Jessica Bryan, Project Officer of Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). Their excavations at Lion Green Road began in 2015, with four further phases taking place in 2016, 2020, […]
Dr Trevor James will reveal his detailed research into the economic and social emergence of commodity and livestock fairs, the foundations of the modern-day entertainments which still survive. Croydon’s fairs […]
From 2004 to 2017 the Cassini probe orbited Saturn. Perhaps the most successful unmanned space mission of all time it surveyed the moons, rings and planet placing a lander on […]
Talk by behavioural ecologist Ray Heaton, who with English Heritage has been recreating Darwin’s garden experiments at Down. Click here for more information about CNHSS events https://cnhss.co.uk/our-event-programme-for-2022-3/
Talk by David Morgan, historian and tour guide of Croydon Minster. He has written many, excellent local history articles such as this https://insidecroydon.com/2023/02/26/how-dick-turpins-life-of-crime-included-a-hold-up-in-shirley/ £3 for non-members. For more information about […]
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