Friends of Islington Museum

Category: Past Projects

  • Choosing to Challenge: Islington Women and Politics

    International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. The theme of IWD 2021 is ‘Choosing to Challenge’. We can all choose to challenge and call out…

  • Choosing to Challenge: Islington Women and Arts and Entertainment

    International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. The theme of IWD 2021 is ‘Choosing to Challenge’. We can all choose to challenge and call out…

  • Choosing to Challenge: Islington Women and Health Care

    International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. The theme of IWD 2021 is ‘Choosing to Challenge’. We can all choose to challenge and call out…

  • Choosing to Challenge: Islington Women and Education

    International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. The theme of IWD 2021 is ‘Choosing to Challenge’. We can all choose to challenge and call out…

  • Choosing to Challenge: Islington Women and International Influence

    International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. The theme of IWD 2021 is ‘Choosing to Challenge’. We can all choose to challenge and call out…

  • The Icy Past of Regent’s Canal

    The Icy Past of Regent’s Canal

    Prior to refrigeration, ice from the Regent’s Canal was integral to Islington’s businesses for food preservation, particularly to meat, fish and dairy merchants. Ice also played and important role in hospitals where it was in use to relieve inflammation. It was a difficult product to gather and store in the…

  • London’s Hidden Waterway: Regent’s Canal

    London’s Hidden Waterway: Regent’s Canal

    Once described as ‘London’s Hidden Waterway’, 2020 celebrates the bicentenary of the Regent’s Canal’s full opening on 1 August 1820. The canal played an integral role in Islington, and north London, serving the local industries and businesses for nearly 150 years. Although passing through a well-populated area, much of the…

  • Changes Over Time: Regent’s Canal

    Much of the Regent’s Canal has changed over 200 years. The following images compare scenes from around the canal at different points in history. Horses patiently waited for boats pulled through the tunnel by a steam powered tug. A horse can carry thirty times more weight on water than over…

  • More Changes Over Time: Regent’s Canal

    More Changes Over Time: Regent’s Canal

    Much of the Regent’s Canal has changed over 200 years. The following images compare scenes from around the canal at different points in history. Wenlock Basin was at the cutting edge of telecommunications in 1846, when the Gutta Percha (a tree gum like rubber) Company made thetwenty nine miles of…

  • Regent’s Canal Photo Quiz

    Regent’s Canal Photo Quiz

    Test your knowledge of the Regent’s Canal with this photo quiz! Want to know the answers? Take a peak below: This quiz is from Barging Through Islington: 200 Years of the Regent’s Canal, an exhibition exploring the two century history of the Regent’s Canal.