By The Mole on The Hill Kitty: Grandad, why are all those people going into that shop? Mole: That’s not a shop, Lass. That’s Sam’s Caff. Kitty: Who’s Sam? Mole: Sam’s a man who had a dream about starting a […]
By Bernard George 1. Which artist, poet and former resident of Fitzroy Road (1757–1827) wrote this? “The fields from Islington to Marybone,To Primrose Hill and Saint John’s Wood,Were builded over with pillars of gold,And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood.” 2. Which […]
In this final talk for 2022 from the Primrose Hill Lecture Series, Booker-prize winning author Alan Hollinghurst will offer a rare glimpse into the writer’s process as he discusses how his fiction offers a way ‘to write, obliquely and in […]
The Primrose Hill Community Library will be holding a literary festival on Saturday 1 October and Sunday 2 October to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our library. Ten authors will talk, read, be interviewed, air their memories and delight audiences […]
There have been many reports of UFOs in recent history, and Primrose Hill has had its share of them. In 2012, four people reported a mysterious humming noise coming from the hill, which seemed to come from all directions at […]
Christmas Gifts from local Primrose Hill shops Primrose Hill has everything you need when you’re planning for Christmas – a butcher, fruit and vegetable shops, Italian delis, cake shops, and you’re spoilt for choice for gifts. Here are a few […]
Europe’s cathedrals are magnificent edifices, and, in general, grander than most castles and palaces. Simon Jenkins will be giving a talk at St Mary’s on 10 November where he plans to speak about his latest book, Europe’s 100 Best Cathedrals. […]
Arthur Rackham was a well-known figure in Primrose Hill, working from Primrose Hill Studios, off Fitzroy Road. In our June issue of On The Hill we ran an article about a 1929 copy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which Arthur […]
What makes a good man bad? Nature versus nurture? Local author Vicky Unwin was sorting through the documents of her father, the Holocaust survivor Tomas Ungar. What she uncovered was an uncomfortable discovery which she has written about in her […]
You may be reading books to distract yourself from the outside world, but if you require your literature to reflect the current climate, here is a selection of ‘infection’ books. Plague of Athens by Thucydides The ‘Plague of Athens’ hit […]
