Friends of Islington Museum

Islington Museum

Explore Islington’s stories of the people, the places and the ideas that created our borough. The Friends of Islington Museum support the museum in all its activities!

Get involved to learn about the borough’s hidden histories, explore our collections and learn about what makes Islington such a fascinating place to live, work, and play.

Islington Museum

Visit to explore Islington’s story through free exhibitions and programming.

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Current Exhibition

Our Islington: Art of the Borough
Celebrating Islington’s artists, with chances to add your own creations. 12/09/24 – 12/01/24
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Islington Archives

Visit to do hands-on exploration of our archive of 100,000+ documents related to the borough.

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Islington Heritage Projects

Learn about how we are conserving Islington’s heritage and bringing art to the borough.

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  • Stephanie Blog 3

    Things I have learnt working in the Islington Heritage Museum: One of the first things I learnt and enjoyed about working here was to get to know the Museum. Roz kindly gave me a tour of the museum where I found a lot of interesting information. How to write a blog for this Project webpage,…

  • Banners for Islington!

    The Hammersmith Banners currently on display in the museum reflect Britain’s response to the Spanish Civil War and the campaigns held here to recruit new members of the International Brigade, collect food, money and arms for Spain, and remember those who had died. For our exhibition, our volunteer Susan, did a lot of research into…

  • Stephanie Blog 2

    One of my first tasks in Islington Museum was digitising some of the objects that belonged to an Odeon cinema in Islington that was built a long time ago and now has been demolished. We took photos of 5 different objects. The first three objects were banners that appeared below the advertisement of the movie before…

  • Finsbury Rifles: Away from the Western Front. 9th July to 15th July 1916.

    Here we see a reference to Captain AL Lewthwaite, a member of the Rifles, who’s spectacular photography collections survives as part of the Imperial War Museum’s archive, providing a personal record of day to day life away from the Western Front. We link to the archive throughout this blog, but you can access the entire…

  • Finsbury Rifles: Away from the Western Front. 3rd July 1916 to 8th July 1916.

      Date 3 to 5/6/16 Work on defences as usual. Battn finding usual guards and picquets. Date 6/6/16 Work on defences as usual.2nd Lt Pethybridge (Sherwood Foresters) and 2nd Lt Hutchinson (S. Staffs Regiment) arrived from Base Detail Camp attached to Battn for duty. Date 7/6/16 Work on defences as usual Date 8/7/16 Work on…