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Upcoming archive and local history events

Camden and the Great War

An illustrated historical talk 

Tudor Allen, Archivist at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, explores the ways in which the First World War impacted on the lives of the people of that part of London today known as Camden. 

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 Hampstead Howitzers
The Hampstead Howitzers in Golders Hill Park in 1915 © CLSAC

E M Forster’s Legacy of Connection

An exhibition of unseen memorabilia and memories of E M Forster and paintings by Jim Buckingham.

The novelist E M Forster’s famous maxim was ‘only connect.' A member of the ‘Bloomsbury set’ who lived in Brunswick Square for some fifteen years, Forster acted out this maxim in his life.

A lifelong believer in gay rights and critic of restrictions based on race and class, he famously had a 30-year friendship with working-class policeman Bob Buckingham. But the connection did not end there. Forster had a wider influence on the whole Buckingham family, including Bob’s nephew, Jim Buckingham, who was inspired to follow privately his passion for painting.

Now in his 80s, Jim Buckingham has — as well as never-recorded recollections of his ‘Uncle Morgan’ — a collection of never-before-seen Forster memorabilia, letters, photographs and his own unseen life’s work of paintings including portraits of Forster himself. 

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Jim Buckingham