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Latest Pamphlets In Email PDF Format
Aspects Of The History Of Tooting:
Part 1: The Development Of Tooting. £3
Part 2: The Tooting Labour Movement & Collective Action To 1951. £3
Part 3: Labour Movement And Conservative Activists Living In Or Representing Tooting. £2
Balham Miscellaneous History. £2
H&SAP Monograph 23. Labour Monthly Items Relating To Anti-colonialism And Imperialism, West Indies, Africa And India. 2023
Pamphlets In print by Sean Creighton
Croydon Radical History. Newsletter No. 5. April 2023. Editorial – Borough of Culture, Publications & Archival Work; Peasants Revolt 1381; People; Miscellaneous; Petitions to Parliament; Freemasonry in the 1840s; Temperance 1841; Dr Daniel Percival Wildbore and the Weller Estate in the 1850s; Temperance 1866; Events in the 1860s & 1870s; Civil Society 1874; The Croydon Review 1888; Women and Music 1890s to 1910s; Socialists; Aspects of Croydon 1904; Croydon National Union of Clerks 1908; Christian Socialist League 1909; Socialists and Trade Unions 1912-1916; Activities in January 1919; Watch and Clock Makers; Nurserymen, Gardeners & Nature Study; Circuses & Showmen; Theatre; Painters; Miscellaneous Notes; Richard Bannerman Collection. £3
John Archer. Battersea’s Black Progressive and Labour Mayor 1863-1932. 2014. £4
Keen as mustard. South Croydon’s heritage. 2019. £1
Kennington Common 10 April 1848. Chartism in Lambeth – an introduction. 2018. £2
Lambeth History, Collection of Miscellaneous Notes. George Whitfield on Kennington Common 1739
Georgian Period: Hercules Buildings; Punishment of Apprentices; John George, Spencean and Chartist
Radical and Labour Movement Activity 1842-1916;
Lambeth, Africa, Anti-Slavery and Black History;
Streatham Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras
and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1920-22; Land Nationalisation and Taxation Campaigning 1896-1921. 2017. £1
Lambeth Radicalism before Chartism. 2019. £4
Norbury History Newsletter No.1. 2017. Let’s protect Croydon’s pioneering libraries The Edwardian library legacy of an Anglo-Pole From the SS Windrush to Croydon: the life of Alex Elden A tribute to Darcus Howe Man Mohan Singh, Indian Air Ace and Norbury. £1
Norbury History Newsletter No.2. 2018. William Coles, Norbury farmer and slave owner; Aspects of Norbury 1908-1912; Kathy Stobart, Jazz Saxophonist; Norbury Trading Estate; Why Pollards Hill needs special protection. £1
Norbury History Newsletter No.3. 2022. Introduction; Ram Gopal, Indian Dance and Norbury; The Sale of the Norbury Hall Estate 1855; Norbury Road Works and Shops Developments 1901-1907; Croydon Corporation Consideration Of Norbury Matters 1921-22
Councillor George Lewin 1930s-1950s; Grandison College; Wates and 1260 London Road; Exploring Pollards Hill’s History
Organising Together in Lambeth. A Historical Review of Co-operative and Mutual Action. 2018. £2
Peace and antiwar campaigning in Croydon from 2016-1950s. 2018. £1
Politics and Culture. Paul Robeson in the UK in the UK. 2013. £2
Railwaymen and Brunswick House. 2013. £1
Suffrage Campaigns & Campaigners in Croydon with Iona Davito and Louise Szpera. 2018. £3.50
Thornton Heath History. A Introductory Overview; community & political organisations 1901-1911; Robert Applegarth, trade union leader and engineer 1834-1924. 2018. £2
What Happened in Norbury. An Introductory Chronology. 2017. £1
Pamphlets In Print By Other Authors
Terence Chapman. Caroline Ganley. 2018. Battersea socialist, co-operator, Councillor and MP. £8
Jeffrey Green. Coleridge-Taylor. A Centenary Celebration. 2012. £4
Peter Kuenstler. Learning About Community. With Oxford House, Bethnal Green. 2004 £5
Jon Newman. Battersea’s Global Reach. The History of Price’s Candles. 2009. £5
Pamphlets Out of Print by Other Authors
Stephen Bourne & Esther Bruce. Esther Bruce. A Black London Seamstress. Her Story 1912-1994. 2012. Emailable PDF. £3
Penelope Corfield. Vauxhall. Sex and Entertainment. London’s Pioneering Urban Pleasure Garden. 2012. Downloadable at:
Michael Tichelar. Labour Politics in Croydon 1880 to 1914. 2015. £2
Jonathan Wood. Bill Miller, Plymouth’s Black Labour Activist. In association with Labour Heritage. 2006. Emailable PDF. £3
Jason Young. Mother Seacole. A short story about the Jamaican Nurse in the Crimean War.2005. Emailable PDF. £2
Pamphlets by Sean Creighton Emailable As PDFs
The following are out of print and can be obtained by email as PDFs.
The Ancient Order Of Foresters In Battersea And Neighbouring Districts. 1999. £1
Battersea in the 1860s & 1870s. 2020. £3
Croydon Borough of Culture 2023. Discussion Paper. 2021. £5
Croydon’s Black African & Caribbean History Before the Windrush. 2019. £3
Croydon’s Black and Anti-Racism History 1948-1979. 2021. £6
Croydon Radical History. Trade Union Activity 1834; Christianity and the Housing Question; Clarion Movement in Croydon in 1896; George Henry Young – Socialist candidate 1902-1909; Croydon and the General Strike; Croydon and the Spanish Civil War; Croydon & Brixton Black Peoples Organisation. 2017. £2
Croydon Radical History Newsletter No. 4. January 2017.
Croydon Trade Unions, The Environment And Climate Change. An Information Paper. £1.50
Digging Up the Hidden Chains. Researching and disseminating information about the North East’s involvements in the slavery business and anti-slavery campaigning. Slavery and Abolition and People of African Descent in the North East. Part 2. 2020. £2
Greening Croydon Post-COVID Economic Recovery, The Town Centre And Climate Change A Discussion And Information Paper. £3
The ‘Black Indies’: The North East Connections With The Slavery Business. Slavery and Abolition and People of African Descent in the North East. Part 2. 2020. £2
The Day Of Jubilee Is Come – Campaigning Against The Slave Trade And Slavery In The North East. Slavery and Abolition and People of African Descent in the North East. Part 3. 2020. £2
From Exclusion To Political Control Radical And Working Class Organisation In Battersea 1830s-1918. 2016 edition. £2
The Importance of the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. A personal discussion triggered by Mike Leigh’s film and a Long 18thC Seminar. 2019. £2
In No Place In The United Kingdom Has The American Slave Warmer Friends than in Newcastle – Black Abolitionists And The North East. Slavery and Abolition and People of African Descent in the North East. Part 4. 2020. £2
The Involvement of People of African Heritage in the North East. An Introduction. Slavery and Abolition and People of African Descent in the North East. Part 5. 2020. £2
Radical Croydon 1860S-1939. An introduction to the history of Croydon’s labour, radical and socialist movements. 2016. £3
Railways And Railwaymen In Battersea – An Introduction. 2021. £3
Who Controls Croydon? (2) Parks & Green Spaces, Planning & Development, The Local Plan & Small Businesses. 2018. £2
Emailable H&SAP Monographs
1. Progressive Battersea: Radicalism and Socialism 1880-1914. Basis of talk at West London Local History Conference 21 May 2009. 2009/2014. £2
2. Black Abolitionists And The North East. Talk at Liberating Sojourn 2 Conference Liverpool University, 23-25 April 2009. 2009. £2
3. John Archer And The Politics of Labour. Talk at Belonging in Europe Conference organised by the Equiano Centre, Department of Geography, University College London 8 & 9 November 2007. 2007. £2
4. Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens – Its Continuing Historical Influence. A review and discussion re-leisure history. 2009. £2
5. Sharing Knowledge – Discussion Notes Re-Universities And the Wider Historical Community. 2009. £2
6. Black Emancipation And The Working Class 1815-1838. Talk at History Talk Seminar 13 October 2009. 2009. £2
8. Battersea Friendly Societies. Talk at Centre for Research into Freemasonry Seminar, Sheffield University, 11 December 2002. 2009. £2
9. Negro Life In Freedom And In Slavery. A note About An 1851 Theatre Production By Henry Russell. 2004/2008. £2
10. West Country Black & Asian Heritage Information. £2
11. Church Papers And Parish Magazines As A Source of Information. 2003/2014. £2
12. National Union Of Empire Africans. 2014. £2
13. Scottish Stories 1920 To 1941. 2014. £2
14. Indians In Britain And Indian Connections. 2004/2014. £2
15. Organising In The Film Industry In The Late 1930s. The Coloured Film Artistes’ Association and the Eastern and Indian Film Artists’ Association. 2004/2014. £2
16. A Wimbledon Window On The Black And Asian Presence 1950-1953. 2004. £2
17. William Jackson At Anti-Slavery Meeting in Lambeth 1862. 2014. £1
18. Settlements And Social Action History. Settlements & Social Action Research Group Newsletters Nos. 1 – 3. 2003. 2014. £3
19. Lady Margaret Hall Settlement; History and Contemporary Challenges. Talk to Friends of Durning Library 18 February 2008. 2014. £2
20. History Of British Anti-Colonial And Anti-racism Activity A Note On Elements Towards Writing A History. 2015
21. The Negro Experience In The USA, The West Iindies & Canada 1839 – 1888. Extracts from British Newspapers. 2015
22. Black And Blackface Performers To 1914. A Miscellaneous Collection of Notes. 2015
23. Labour Monthly Items Relating To Anti-colonialism And Imperialism, West Indies, Africa And India. 2023. £2
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