FORTHCOMING EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Reservoirs of meaning? A history of parks and green spaces
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Keynote conference speech by Professor Ken Worpole.
Greenspace Leaders Conference, Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa.
Further details: www.green-space.org.uk

Talks at the Tower: Life and Death on Balls Pond Road
Thursday, 17 May 2012. 7pm for 7.30 start
Ken Worpole on the novelist, Jerry O'Neill.
In 1967 Jerry O'Neill took over The Duke of Wellington Pub in Balls Pond Road, Hackney, creating the Sugawn Theatre, a venue for poetry, drama, music and gatherings. Jerry O'Neill himself was an accomplished novelist and playwright, and in this talk Ken Worpole discusses his vibrant fiction, much of it dealing with Irish life in Hackney and East London, with pubs, building sites, crime and general mayhem.
Admission free, but booking required.
Talks at the Tower: St Augustine's Tower, Mare Street, Hackney.
For details of this and all other talks in the series, including booking, contact: info@hhbt.org.uk or Tel: 0208 986 0029