Forthcoming Events

Thu, Jun 20th, 2013, @6:30pm - 09:00PM
AGM; Intolerance in London during WW I
Thu, Jul 18th, 2013, @7:30pm - 09:00PM
Development of cremation in Britain since 1874
Thu, Sep 19th, 2013, @7:30pm - 09:00PM
Violent crime in 19th-century Camden
Thu, Oct 17th, 2013, @7:30pm - 09:00PM
The Carrs and the Lushingtons
Thu, Nov 21st, 2013, @7:30pm - 09:00PM
The Marquis of Leuville
Thu, Dec 12th, 2013, @7:00pm - 09:00PM
St Paul's - the alternative

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Events
Every month there is a talk on some aspect of the history of Camden or of London in general, free to members but open to non-members for a £1 entry fee. These are usually on the third Thursday of every month, but occasionally on another day depending on the availability of venues and speakers. Warning of a change in the usual timing is given in the Newsletter a month or two in advance.
The talks always start at 7:30pm and last 45-50 minutes, with time for question and comment afterwards. Doors open 7pm, at various venues within the Borough. There are 11 such events during the year (none in August), all free to members. For further information click on the title of the talk in the Events Calendar below.
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Unearthing Redpath
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 19:30 - 21:00
Once notorious but now almost forgotten, Leopold Redpath was one of the 19th century’s greatest fraudsters who, working at King’s Cross in the share registration office of the Great Northern Railway, over a period of 8 years embezzled some £¼ million from his employers, the equivalent of £20 million today. He used the proceeds to acquire a splendid house in one of Nash's grand terraces on the Camden side of Regent’s Park, where, posing as an affable philanthropist, he hobnobbed with the great and the good. Finally unmasked, and convicted in 1857, he was eventually transported, for life, to Australia.

    Society members David Hayes and Marian Kamlish will talk about the varied sources used in piecing together Redpath's often stranger-than-fiction life. Their new book about the criminal will be available at the talk.

This event will take place at Burgh House, not as previously advertised.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This event will take place at Burgh House, not as previously advertised.
Location: Burgh House, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT
Contact: David Hayes
Non-members welcome: one pound at the door.

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