Before there was St John-at-Hackney, there was St Augustine’s Church, which was Hackney’s parish church from 1275 to 1789.

In the 17th century, the Perwich school was one of the biggest and most renowned girls’ schools in the London area and the country. The school taught girls from middling and elite families how to be accomplished and successful wives, mothers, and women in their own right.

Shacklewell was the first official Quaker school for girls, established by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1668.

This viewpoint details the history of Lloyds Coffeehouse and it’s connections to eighteenth-century maritime trade and global expansion