1980s People Power: The Campaign to Save St Leonard’s Hospital
Find out more about Hackney Health Emergency, a successful people-led campaign in the 1980s to save St Leonard’s Hospital, Hoxton from closure.
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Perpetual Beauty Carnival Club: Stoke Newington’s Pioneering Mas Band
This blog explores the story of Perpetual Beauty Carnival Club, the Stoke Newington Mas Band that introduced Caribbean carnival traditions to the borough in the 1970s, inspiring generations of Mas makers. Mas Comes to Hackney In the 18th and 19th centuries, enslaved people in the Caribbean developed Mas – short for ‘masquerade’ – as a … Read more