Events

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

Let’s celebrate! This year Bruce Castle Museum will be 120 years old, and what a roller coaster ride of survival it has been! Closed during two World Wars, used as a municipal health clinic during the twenties and thirties – and all the time teetering on the brink of full-time closure, maybe even demolition, as its very old fabric needed constant, urgent repairs. Now the recent MEND grant has given us a much-restored building we can look forward to many more years with Bruce Castle open to the public.

A Heritage Walking Tour

Free, all welcome. Booking required.

Local History guide and Friend of Bruce Castle Oona Kelly will be tracing the path taken by two armed Latvian Social Democrats over 100 years ago on 23 January 1909, as they fled from a payroll robbery at Schnurmann's Rubber Factory in Chesnut Road.

A Walking Jewish History Tour

Free, all welcome. Booking required.

Tottenham Heritage Walks and Bruce Castle Museum and Archive bring you a free and fascinating walk looking at Jewish history around Tottenham Hale.

Starting by the High Cross monument, we will be looking at stories of Jewish families who moved from the East End to settle in Tottenham, in the streets around the Hale, the High Road and Lansdowne Road.

Free workshop for LGBT+ History Month! Upcycling ceramics with House of Frisson. Booking essential.

Participants must bring their own ceramic plate/bowl/dish to upcycle. All other materials provided.

Join artist Luciano Rocha for a hands‑on upcycling session inspired by his exhibition House of Frisson: Elevating the Misfit. Participants are invited to bring their own ceramic plate to transform using collage, colour, and imagery drawn from Bruce Castle Museum’s LGBTQ+ archive and Luciano’s distinctive visual language.

Free, suitable for families with children aged 7 years and older. Younger siblings are welcome to join.

Join artist and educator Samira Mian for a drop-in family workshop rooted in the beauty and precision of Islamic art. There will be a range of templates and grids to help you draw, outline and colour geometric patterns and motifs found in the Mughal Architecture of South Asia and beyond.

Free, suitable for families with children aged 7 years and older. Younger siblings are welcome to join.

Join artist and educator Samira Mian for a drop-in family workshop rooted in the beauty and precision of Islamic art. There will be a range of templates and grids to help you draw, outline and colour geometric patterns and motifs found in the Mughal Architecture of South Asia and beyond.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of Haringey Lesbian and Gay Unit (LAGU).

Free, all welcome! Materials provided. Booking essential

Head over to Bruce Castle Museum & Archive to make your own badge and learn about our radical queer heritage using material from Haringey’s LGBTQ+ archives.

2026 marks 40 years since the founding of the groundbreaking Haringey Lesbian and Gay Unit in 1986, and this workshop will provide the opportunity to explore archival material related to this important part of our local history.