Vauxhall History is an online conspectus, updated monthly, of articles, images, documents and eyewitness accounts to do with the Vauxhall district of central London. The site was launched in collaboration with and is supported by The Vauxhall Society, our joint aim to further interest in and knowledge of Vauxhall, a part of London with a distinctive place in British business, cultural and social history.
Visitors to the Vauxhall History website are welcome to reproduce or quote from material with acknowledgement to Vauxhallhistory.org, but while we make every effort to ensure accuracy, liability rests with the user.
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Our Editors
Naomi Clifford is a history writer and journalist with a particular interest in the stories of women. Her first historical novel, 13 Park Lane, is published by Bloodhound Books (2024). Naomi is the author of the non-fiction titles The Murder of Mary Ashford (2018), Women and the Gallows 1797-1837 (2017), The Disappearance of Maria Glenn (2016), all published by Pen & Sword. Caret Press published Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver in 2021. You can find Naomi on Threads as @naomi__clifford and at naomiclifford.com.
David E. Coke, Consultant Editor, is a curator and cultural historian specialising in the Pleasure Gardens of Georgian and Victorian London. He is the co-author with Dr Alan Borg of the award-winning Vauxhall Gardens: A History (Yale University Press, 2011). David has directed Gainsborough’s House in Suffolk and Pallant House in Chichester and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Website: vauxhallgardens.com.
Ross Davies, Chairman of The Vauxhall Society, is a former Times journalist and now a literary historian who specialises in studies of soldier-writers. Ross’s books include Last Train From Jerusalem: The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911-1943 (Liverpool University Press, 2024), Vauxhall: A Little History (The Nine Elms Press, 2009), ‘A Student in Arms’: Donald Hankey and Edwardian Society at War (Ashgate, 2013), Drummond Allison: Come, Let Us Pity Death and F.W. Harvey: Poet of Remembrance (both Cecil Woolf War Poets Series, 2008, 2009).