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

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

Culture

IN BRIXTON – an exhibition of photos from times past

Leslie Manasseh - 17 May, 2019

Food & drink

Something’s brewing: London Beer Lab

Contributor - 18 April, 2019

Arike Oke, head of BCA

Brixton People

BCA’s new head Arike Oke says archives are a world to explore not just a...

Leslie Manasseh - 22 March, 2019

LOCAL HISTORY

Local history

BRIX & MORTAR: Lambeth Town Hall

Ruth Waters - 31 May, 2013

The plaque marking the bombing is today usually behind a row of trolleys

Local history

Nineteenth anniversary of Brixton bomb

Alan Slingsby - 17 April, 2018

Community

RIP MADIBA: How Brixton is paying tribute to Nelson Mandela

Laurice Laird - 9 December, 2013

Flyer for Adrian Stone's Windrush workshops

Local history

Family tree workshops: help to discover the powerful past

Contributor - 30 May, 2019

Local history

New book marks 200 years of Brixton prison

Alan Slingsby - 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

Campaigns

Brixton marks 20th anniversary of nail bombing

Alan Slingsby - 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

Marcia Cameron lights a lantern held by 17-24-40's Mark Healey

Mayor joins Brixton bomb commemoration

18 April, 2018

The plaque marking the bombing is today usually behind a row of trolleys

Nineteenth anniversary of Brixton bomb

17 April, 2018

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When revolution was in the air on Brixton Road

11 April, 2018