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 Click here and here to read the special issue for Local History Month, with stories about Tudors, the Tower, wars & roses, Kench Hill - and the bombs of the Blitz. Plus plenty of puzzles, quizzes, jokes and prizes.
Nowadays we can't talk to Tudors any more to ask them what it was like living in Hackney when everyone was scared silly of being locked in the Tower of London or having their heads chopped off - or why Queen Elizabeth I sometimes dropped in for a visit in Stoke Newington.
But luckily the Tudors wrote loads of things down, so we can still read about Hackney Tudors - like the man who started Hackney Free & Parochial School 490 years ago (and was big friends with King Henry VIII's granny); and about what connected Kench Hill with Hackney five hundred years ago.
In the future, we will all be little parts of history, and we think it would be good to make it easier for people in the future to find out about their history. So we are making a big effort now to find out from people who can still remember what it was like to live during the Blitz seventy years ago - and make sure their stories about that big bit of history are written down.
You can read some of the stories in TimeLine - and how about adding your story for future generations to read by entering our Putting on the Blitz competitions.?
Please click here for more information about Remembering the Blitz and here to read more about Local History Month
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