History On My Doorstep, Part 2
This is the conclusion of the second piece from Di Murrell and the last of her guest blogs. If you missed the first part of History On My Doorstep, catch…
History On My Doorstep, Part 1
Welcome to the second of the guest pieces by Di Murrell in celebration of Know Your Place Festival 2021. In the first part of this piece, Di discovers some intriguing…
Custard Tarts – Their Chequered Past, part 2
This is the conclusion of Di Murrell's first guest essay for Know Your Place. If you missed Part 1, catch up here. Whatever the truth of the tarts’ earlier history,…
Custard Tarts – Their Chequered Past, part 1
The town of Richmond-upon-Thames has long been associated with pleasure, with prosperity, as a pleasure ground of the gentry, the rich and the famous. Plenty of signs of wealth up…
Know Your Place 2021: guest blogs by Di Murrell
September in Richmond is Know Your Place month, where we celebrate the rich history of our Borough through talks, workshops, quizzes - and blog pieces. This year, we're very lucky…
Making History 2: Moments in time
Do you want to help record the COVID-19 pandemic for posterity? Documents collected now will form a key part of how future generations understand the pandemic. To this end, the…
Making History: Life in Lockdown
In times like these, where everyday living suddenly changes, everything feels a little surreal. Part of that is the knowledge that we're living through history - in the future, these…
The Szlumper Cuttings
Sir James Szlumper Sir James Szlumper, 3 times mayor of Richmond (1893/1900/1904) and president of the Victoria Working Men’s Club collected 11 volumes of cuttings from local and national newspapers…
The Leslie Freeman Slide Collection
Photographs are a hugely important resource for local archives and here in Richmond we have a collection of over 20,000 images lovingly cared for by staff at our Local Studies…
Know Your Place – A year in the making
September 2018 will see the fifth Know Your Place heritage festival, and whilst the festival is on for one month, it takes all-year-round planning to get it…