Explore Brixton

It’s all about Brixton – the people, the places, the history. Find out more about your local area.

BRIXTON CALLING

Brixton Calling: Mary Seacole, determination and compassion

Brixton Calling: Music – Brixton’s record shop with soul

Brixton Calling: Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes

Delores William - 8 February, 2018

Brixton Calling: Remembered – after 100 years

Brixton Calling: Alan Wilmott – soldier, singer and star

BRIXTON PEOPLE

Charles Claton and Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Business

Young Brixton entrepreneur meets worldwide web creator Tim Berners-Lee

Alan Slingsby - 16 November, 2019

Brixton People

A virtual reality trip round Brixton’s heritage

Linda Quinn - 22 October, 2019

person looking at 3d film through var

Brixton People

What does it mean to belong in Brixton?

Guest - 5 September, 2019

author of book about Caribbean WW2 pilot with colleagues fro Caribbean Labour Solidarity Organisation

Brixton People

From fighting the Nazis to fighting for freedom

Alan Slingsby - 28 May, 2019

LOCAL HISTORY

Lord Bourne

Community

Official Windrush 70 campaign launches in Brixton

Contributor - 8 March, 2018

Community

You can’t help smiling when he laughs

Delores William - 16 April, 2017

River Effra book cover

Books & literature

Everything you need to know about the Effra

Alan Slingsby - 8 November, 2016

Photo of Havelock Ellis

Local history

Havelock Ellis a Brixton pioneer

Steve Powdrill - 3 November, 2019

historic images longfield hall

Local history

First black theatre company honoured with blue plaque

Fergus Matheson - 25 October, 2019

Local history

Learn about the history of Brixton at the heritage festival

Linda Quinn - 4 September, 2019

Flyer for Adrian Stone's Windrush workshops

Family tree workshops: help to discover the powerful past

30 May, 2019

New book marks 200 years of Brixton prison

29 May, 2019

Mark Healey of HCAW; Chery Lewis; Donatus Anyanwu; and Louise Holden, London disability hate crime project manager for Inclusion London, an organisation that supports more than 70 deaf and disabled organisations in every London borough

Brixton marks 20th anniversary of nail bombing

18 April, 2019

Nellie Roberts painting at home at 72 Loughborough Road. From Louis M. Boyle’s Out West: Growing Cymbidium Orchids and Other Flowers

Do you have memories of the Loughborough Road area?

11 February, 2019

Photo of a Windrush Generation couple dancing

Windrush: Portrait of a Generation out now in book form

27 November, 2018

Local historian Steve Martin tells spectators about William Cuffay, a leading Chartist and the son of a slave

Kennington Park to celebrate its history of protest and democracy

26 June, 2018