Events

By Angela Mascolo, Public Historian

For LGBT+ History Month, Bruce Castle Museum's Young Curator’s Pick features Angela Mascolo as we discover more about her work behind the lens recording voices and hidden histories. Her illustrated talk will showcase the importance of oral history in preserving marginalised histories, as well as her journey implementing it in her own work and her most recent LGBTQ+ heritage project.

Angela Mascolo is a MA Public History graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London, currently working in the museum sector.

Join curator Deborah Hedgecock in the galleries as she shows the exquisite artwork by Henrietta Townsend of Bruce Castle and shares stories of Henrietta's struggles in 18th century society to become Lady of the Manor.

All welcome. Please book your free place via Eventbrite.

For any queries, please contact museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Interested in learning something new? Join local artist and tutor Susan Bryan for a lovely, relaxed workshop for absolute beginners in drawing.

This class provides a great chance to release your inner artist, all in the unique and inspiring setting of a Grade 1 listed building.

All art materials plus refreshments included within the ticket price!

Book your £12 ticket via Eventbrite. Or pay on the door.

Get ready for the Coronation and head down to our courtyard and turn yourself into royalty! Create a coronation crown and robe, explore our self-led story corner, and discover the famous kings and queens who have visited Bruce Castle.

This activity is suitable for ages 5 to 10 years old.

In the event of wet weather, activities will take place inside the museum.

Get ready for the Coronation and head down to our courtyard and turn yourself into royalty! Create a coronation crown and robe, explore our self-led story corner, and discover the famous kings and queens who have visited Bruce Castle.

This activity is suitable for ages 5 to 10 years old.

In the event of wet weather, activities will take place inside the museum.

Discover the world of Alice in Wonderland and create your own Mad Hatter's hat.

This activity is suitable for ages 4 to 12 years old.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Free activity, all materials provided.

Discover the world of Alice in Wonderland and create your own Mad Hatter's hat.

This activity is suitable for ages 4 to 12 years old.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Free activity, all material provided.

Make a tile or brick for the community kiln in Highgate Wood!

Ahead of the construction of a replica Roman kiln in summer 2024, the team at Firing London's Imagination are asking the local community to help make bricks and tiles that’ll help with its construction. 

This activity is suitable for people of all ages! Children are welcome and must be accompanied by an adult.

As part of the Haringey Feast celebrations, Collective Exchange are holding an Open Clay Day event at Bruce Castle.

During a workshop, participants will create their own ceramic bowl using press mold technique and decorate it by mark making and painting it with underglazes.

The bowls will then be fired and delivered to the Feast at Alexandra Palace to be used on the day of the event. 

There are two workshops available:

Bruce Castle is taking part in the 2023 Open House Festival! 

Just drop-in to the Museum for our Open House events - no booking required.

See behind the scenes and explore the historic rooms on a curator-led guided tour about the architectural designs and evolution of Grade 1 listed Bruce Castle. You can find out about the secrets, mysteries and intriguing stories of the building and the people who lived here, including voices of servants who are often overlooked.

Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.

What we eat has changed so much over the years, as well as how and where we bought and stored our food. The High Road’s larger grocery stores, with their separate counters and freshly wrapped food gave way to supermarkets, and we started to shop weekly with the benefit of our new fridges. The thriving corner shops in the side streets – dairies, grocers, butchers and bakers – gradually closed, as did the once numerous fruit and veg stalls parked on convenient side streets off the High Road.

Special Historical Visit & Ray Swain Memorial Talk.

With John Laverick, Lay Minister of All Hallows.

The GI Bride-In-A-Box: A Tottenham Woman's Story Of Hope, Protest and Adventure in WW2

By Oona Kelly, Local Historian and Friend of Bruce Castle.

Stroud Green artist and sculptor Al Johson will be making the designs applied to two story chairs for the Haringey Feast.

Using worked textiles, she will be capturing our memories of the high street and Tottenham High Road and the vast range of shops, businesses and restaurants in our communities that provide us with food – from the past and today.

In this community workshop, you can get hands-on and see how to stitch and work textiles whilst sharing your memories.

Drawing from the collections of Bruce Castle Museum & Archive and Historic England, Curator Deborah Hedgecock chooses images by George and Cecil Shadbolt and looks at their extraordinary legacy of early photography in the UK.

Please book your free ticket for this in-person event at the Museum via Eventbrite.

For queries, please email museum.services@haringey.gov.uk

Sunbul Akhtar, printmaker and illustrator of Muswell Hill, is holding a free block printing workshop in Wightman Road Mosque. Members of all faith communities in Haringey are invited to attend.   

Sunbul Akhtar, printmaker and illustrator of Muswell Hill, is holding a free block printing workshop in Wightman Road Mosque. This session encourages students 12+ to participate after school, and others of all faith communities in Haringey to attend.

(NB due to the nature of the medium and the sharp tools involved, we encourage students above 12 years only). 

We're thrilled to present the opening of the Windrush 75 'The Grip' Exhibition. This in-person event will be a fantastic opportunity to immerse yourself in the rich culture and history of the Windrush generation.

Focusing on ‘the grip’ – a traveller’s suitcase – this special community-led exhibition marks Windrush 75, with photographs, written word, a short film and artwork from local members of the Windrush Generation and friends.

Saturday 7 October, 10.30am - 4.45pm (doors open 10.15am)

Time to reconnect, discover and be inspired by more of Haringey’s fascinating radical and pioneering history and community heritage at the Haringey History Fair at Bruce Castle Museum & Archive.

A lot has happened since last year's Fair in May 2022.  This October is a chance to get together again and touch base with your local heritage and cultural groups and organisations in Haringey.

Take a walk with tour guide Avril Nanton and explore the history of this well-known road in Stroud Green. With Avril you will discover more about pioneering trailblazer John La Rose and the George Padmore Institute, the New Beacon Bookshop, Black supplementary schools, protests by Haringey anti-apartheid group as well as local Black-led businesses. Avril will share stories about those who lived, worked or brought communities together in this street, making important contributions to the area and to Black British history in general.