Local history

Whether you are tracing the history of a building, undertaking a GCSE project, discovering the history of your family or just interested in the local history of the area where you live, the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre is the place to start.

The Centre contains over 200,000 items on the history of the borough and we aim to keep anything that helps reflect life in Camden past and present.

New opening hours from 2 April 2012

Monday 10-6
Tuesday 10-6
Thursday 10-7
Friday (by appointment)
alternate Saturdays 11-5

Oil paintings online

All the oil paintings in Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre's collection are now available to view online: www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/

Your Paintings is a project aiming to create a complete online catalogue of every oil painting in the national collection.

Local family share their photographs

The Ing family, who had a fishmonger and poultry business at 99 Albany Street and at 52a Bolsover Street for many years, have kindly given us copies of their family photographs.