Our latest publication
Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke
In association with Caret Press
Phyllis Todd, much-travelled painter of a different stripe
Just published by The Vauxhall Society: Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens by David E. Coke
The Space Art of Ralph Smith in Vauxhall
Want to self-publish your history book? Vauxhall History’s Naomi Clifford to give free online talk telling you how
Caret Press to publish David E. Coke’s Six Essays on Vauxhall Gardens in October 2021
Henry Evans Evanion, ‘The Royal Conjuror’ of Kennington
Louise Michel, anarchist heroine of the Paris Commune, tours the Lambeth workhouse
Watercolour nostalgia for Vauxhall Gardens
Claudia Jones’s Vauxhall years and the genesis of the West Indian Gazette
The Prisoners’ Friend: The Work of the Indefatigable Mrs Meredith in south London
Knaves or ‘Slaves’? – the Waiters of Vauxhall Gardens
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
“Exotic Outdoor Pleasure”: Vauxhall Gardens – historians in discussion at the Foundling Museum, London, Wednesday 4 October 2019
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
“The Great Original” – C.H. Simpson, Master of Ceremonies at the Royal Gardens Vauxhall 1797–1835
‘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’
