We are looking forward to hosting your group workshops exploring our collections 😀

🚨Access update: we are without Wi-Fi in our building. There is no onsite public PC access to online resources such as Ancestry or digital material.

Drop in to access all other collections & view our exhibition as usual.

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.

#EidMubarak to all those celebrating this week!

This Eid Pack was transferred to us from the Idea Store Learning team. It contains worksheets of recipes, maps and artwork designed to teach maths, English and geography

Are you interested in the history of housing activism in Tower Hamlets?

If so, our library editions of ‘Flash Point – News Bulletin of the Stepney Squatters’ from 1973 are a great resource for researching the fight for decent housing and tenants’ rights.

📣20 Apr 11am-1pm What We Have Become Creative Workshop
Using memory and examples of archival textiles from the Tower Hamlets collection, costume and set designer Veronika Seifert will lead a collage workshop with text, texture, sculpture and imagination.
orlo.uk/uKDcm

Join us tomorrow 6pm-7:30pm for the launch event to celebrate the opening of 'What We Have Become' A visual arts exhibition
Booking via orlo.uk/bookings_Bzfnr

Hi all,

There's only a few days remaining to be one of our six Co-Producers for the Communities of Liberation project. More information on how to apply, orlo.uk/R3to8

#communitiesofliberation #blackhistory

Watch this space!

This week we were saddened to hear that Steve Harley had passed away.

Best known as the frontman of Cockney Rebel in the 1970s, before that he'd been a journalist for the East London Advertiser, and was the first reporter on the scene during the Stepney School Strike in 1971.

Bridget Hickey ran The Wades' Arms in Jeremiah Street, Poplar for 30 years.

Born in Tipperary, Ireland she managed the pub when it was the headquarters of the Strike Committee of the Great Dock Strike in 1889. Here she is remembered by strike leader Tom Mann.

#StPatricksDay ☘️