Author: Sue McCarthy

Camden at 60 – The Garretts of Gower Street

Doctor, decorator, prisoner, politician, militant suffragette and mathematical genius. Sue’s Bloomsbury walk explores the life and legacy of the extraordinary women of the Garrett family. Millicent led the non-violent suffragists,

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Authors
Sue McCarthy

Buchi Emecheta in Camden

Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta OBE (21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017) is the author of 15 adult novels, four children’s books and 2 plays.  She was a prolific and pioneering writer

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Arts
Sue McCarthy

Radical Theatre in Camden

Camden has a long and honourable history of radical theatre, from social and political issues of the day in the 19th century to the first on-stage nudity in a public

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Kentish Town
Sue McCarthy

Recycling is not new….

Looking at this imposing Grade II listed church in the east London suburb of Wanstead it would be hard to imagine its very unusual history. Now well-connected by the Central

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