Please join us at the Museum of London in Docklands on Saturday 21 November 2026 for the 60th LAMAS History Conference, ‘An Intelligent Interest: Learning and Education in London’.
We have assembled a fantastic programme of speakers covering a wide and varied range of topics:
‘Publicly funded education in endowed London secondary schools leading up to the First World War and its role in facilitating social mobility’ (Dr Andrew Whittaker)
‘Life Opportunities provided through secondary education in Tower Hamlets between the Wars’ (Robert Kemp)
Keynote: ‘The Social Wreckage in our Streets: The Deptford Ragged School and its surrounding neighbourhood’ (Dr John Price)
‘Designing Pinnock’s Catechisms, 1812-1828, a popular schoolbook and juvenile encyclopaedia’ (Margaret Lock)
‘Educating Pinner: The History of Pinner National Schools’ (Pinner Local History Society)
‘Learning to Resist: Black Supplementary Schools in London’ (Jo Large)
‘The London housewife at the turn of the twentieth century; learning from everyday life, familial connections, and the Electrical Association for Women’ (Lucy Wood)
Doors open at 10.30am with an opportunity to browse local history displays and stalls by societies. The conference itself will begin at 11.00am and finish around 5.30pm.
Discounted ‘Early-Bird’ tickets available until 1 November, so book early!
For further information and to book your ticket please visit https://www.lamas.org.uk/conferences-and-lates/