In their day, two centuries ago, Vauxhall Gardens' waiters were variously described as insolent swindling rascals, or as the epitome of unobtrusive efficiency. But who were they really, and what were their working conditions? asks David Coke, ...
Online talk: “By her own consent” – The Murder of Mary Ashford and Rape Culture in the Georgian Era
Vauxhall History co-editor and author of The Murder of Mary Ashford Naomi Clifford presents an online talk at 7pm on Tuesday 8 December, in which she examines a notorious murder case of 1817 that highlighted Georgian attitudes to rape and also led to ...
When John Archer took aim at injustice
Who was the mystery ‘Lady of Colour’ who sang and gave a pianoforte recital at Vauxhall Gardens in 1822?
When ‘Vauxhall’ changed gear and hit the road to make motoring history
Myth and Monolith – The Nine Elms Cold Store
Fun and Games at Vauxhall: ‘The New and Favorite Game of Mother Goose and the Golden Egg’, a board game of 1808
The Man in the White Cotton Suit: William Roupell, MP, Treachery and Fraud in Queen Victoria’s Lambeth
Vauxhall Park not lost for lavender
Lambeth Palace Library move recalls marriage scandals of past times
Following in Nellie Roberts’ brushstrokes – the work of orchid painter Deborah Lambkin
Time-travelling back to 1752 and Vauxhall Gardens via Virtual Reality
Screen siren Jane Russell and her South Lambeth adoption sensation
When Vauxhall Gardens went global but The Grove lost its groove and the bandstand missed a beat
Millicent Fawcett and Vauxhall Park
‘Whoreterloo’: Prostitutes and Soldiers in North Lambeth in the First World War
Philip Astley, ringmaster of the modern Circus, commemorated at Westminster Bridge
Why no flowers for Nellie, orchid-painter extraordinaire?
Light-up and lift-off at the British Interplanetary Society, Vauxhall’s ‘space station’
The unstoppable Sidney Lewis, Tooting’s pre-teen Somme machine-gunner
‘Balloonomania’ and England’s first lady of flight
Rolfe Judd’s light-touch makeover of a Victorian Chapel
No life for a lady along the Lambeth shore – the adventures and misadventures of Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs
The Old Vic and the murder of Mary Ashford: the opening night of the Royal Coburg Theatre, 11 May 1818
Injury time at Blissets, The Oval, 1960–2015
Kennington, 1795: a highwayman’s dance of death on the gallows
‘Princess Seraphina’ steps out at Vauxhall Gardens
