Tuesday 19 November 2024, 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Free, all welcome. Refreshments included. No booking required.
Thursday 21 November 2024, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories.
November's session is: Festive Food!
With the festive season on the horizon, we'll be looking at celebratory food past and present. During the session you will be able to chat over morning tea in a welcoming environment, handle some of our museum and archive collections and share your own stories.
You will also have exclusive access to the museum’s downstairs galleries.
Saturday 23 November 2024, 11.00am to 4.00pm
Come to Bruce Castle Museum & Archive on Saturday 23 November and enjoy a FREE day full of talks by renowned writers and illustrators, who all share a love for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Hear stories of their favourite club and the people and players who have shaped its history - all written in their well-researched and beautifully illustrated books.
A great chance to purchase signed copies of books about your favourite football legends, either for yourself or a loved-one for Christmas.
Sunday 24 November 2024, 2.00pm to 4.45pm
Join Tottenham Trees for a walk, a talk, a discussion, a quiz and poetry about Trees.
Thursday 23 January 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Tottenham Heritage Walks with Bruce Castle Museum and Archive bring you a free and fascinating Jewish History Walking tour around Tottenham. Free tickets must be booked via Ticket Tailor.
Sunday 26 January 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Tottenham Heritage Walks with Bruce Castle Museum and Archive bring you a free and fascinating Jewish History Walking tour around Tottenham. Free tickets must be booked via Ticket Tailor.
Saturday 22 February 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Come along to our zine-making workshop and learn how to be a zinester for LGBT+ History Month. Bring your own story or an important LGBTQ+ moment in history and join this collective zine-making workshop with local comic artist and illustrator Wilson So (@morrowdragon). You can document your story in the zine using collage, drawing and writing. No artistic experience required! This session is aimed for 16 - 25 year olds only.
Please book your free ticket via Ticket Tailor.
Sunday 23 February 2025, 11.00am to 1.00pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Join curator Deborah Hedgecock for a fascinating LGBTQ+ heritage walk along Green Lanes and Harringay. Keeping with this year’s LGBT+ History Month theme - ‘Activism and Social Change’ - this walk takes in Harringay’s many connections to iconic radical episodes in the nation’s LGBTQ+ heritage. From historic protests, to parties and politics, this tour celebrates the diverse and proud history of our borough. Please do bring along your own stories as well, as we map more about the borough's LGBTQ+ history!
Sunday 23 February 2025, 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Come along to our zine-making workshop and learn how to be a zinester for LGBT+ History Month. Bring your own story or an important LGBTQ+ moment in history and join this collective zine-making workshop with local comic artist and illustrator Wilson So (@morrowdragon). You can document your story in the zine using collage, drawing and writing. No artistic experience required! This session is aimed for adults only.
Please book your free ticket via Ticket Tailor.
Tuesday 25 February 2025, 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Free, all welcome. Refreshments provided.
Saturday 1 March 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Discover the history of different women's lives from across the centuries on this guided walk with your tour guide Carol Hebbs (Tottenham Heritage Walks) for this Women's History Month. The walk will take you around Tottenham Cemetery, Prospect Place and All Hallows Church and Graveyard, as well as exploring the monuments inside All Hallows Church.
Meet at 10.15am (for 10.30am start) outside All Hallows Church, Church Lane in Tottenham, N15 7AA.
Sunday 2 March 2025, 2.00pm to 4.00pm
This Women's History Month join artist Siân Dorman at Bruce Castle as she shares her crafting skills and creative ideas at this morning workshop. Using upcycled waste plastics and jewellery clasps, you can be inspired to make a unique, handmade gift – one that is sustainable and in good time for that special woman in your life for Mothering Sunday. This special workshop is for 14+ to adults, and we especially encourage friends and family members from different generations to attend and share this creative experience together.
Sunday 9 March 2025, 11.00am to 1.00pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Discover some amazing women on this entertaining walk with local historian and tour guide Oonagh Gay - from author Gillian Tindall’s connection with Stapleton Hall, to Albertina Sylvester, founder of one of the local Black supplementary schools, and friend of John La Rose and Sarah White, co-founders of New Beacon Books. On the way we will meet peace campaigners, pioneer film producer and pre-school specialist.
Meet at 10.45am (for 11am start) outside Holy Trinity Church, corner of Granville Road/Stapleton Hall Road N4.
Thursday 13 March 2025, 7.00pm to 8.30pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Sunday 16 March 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Free, all welcome. Booking required.
Explore the world of Tottenham women, delving into the world of politics, careers and education and how these women challenged the stereotypes that were set for them. Join Oona Kelly, local historian, on this guided tour for Women's History Month around South Tottenham.
Meet at 10.15am (for 10.30am start) by Seven Sisters tube station exit (near the junction with Broad Lane), outside 214-218 Tottenham High Road, N15 4RP.
Tuesday 25 March 2025, 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.
Thursday 27 March 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Join us at Bruce Castle for morning tea and the opportunity to look at our collections and share stories.
March's session is: Grown in Haringey!
With spring on the horizon, we'll be looking at gardens, allotments, farms and more - to celebrate all things 'Grown in Haringey'. During the session you will be able to chat over morning tea in a welcoming environment, handle some of our museum and archive collections and share your own stories.
Tuesday 22 April 2025, 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Free, all welcome. No booking required. Refreshments included.
Sunday 4 May 2025, 11.00am to 4.00pm
Come and explore this special historic area around Bruce Castle, the Park, Church, Pub and Cemetery!
For a full programme, please visit our Special Events Page.
Tuesday 20 May 2025, 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Free, all welcome. Refreshments included.
"The end of the Second World War was a massive relief, but it was not without its challenges and hardships - and for many a very changed world. Food rationing was not finally phased out until 1954, and city dwellers were confronted with bombsites, lost homes and lost buildings. For those of us who were children in the 1940s and 1950s, there was sweet rationing to be endured, when the occasional treat of a chocolate bar or a bag of boiled sweets was an exceptional pleasure.
