Shop around the block
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 […]
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Simon Jenkins on Europe’s 100 Best Cathedrals: An Illustrated Talk
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 […]
Arthur Rackham on the Antiques Roadshow
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 […]
The Boy from Boskovice
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 […]
Infectious Reads: Books on Plagues and Pestilence
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. […]
An Immigrant’s View of Primrose Hill
By Isabelle Dupuy. One of the magical things about London is the number of lives one can have in this city without moving neighbourhoods. My first life here was on […]
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News & Views – May 2019
Harriet Kelsall Wins at the Business Book Awards Congratulations to Harriet Kelsall, whose book The Creative Guide to Starting a Business has won at the Business Book Awards 2019. The […]
Harrison Braves the Hill
Aruna Khanzada had been living on Bridge Approach for a year and making daily trips to the top of Primrose Hill with her children when she started writing and illustrating […]
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Alan Bennett
Celebrated writer reads passages at the Primrose Hill Community Centre Alan Bennett looked very much at home as he took a chair and announced that he planned to read passages […]
The Reputation Game
David Waller published The Reputation Game after moving to Primrose Hill with his family last year. Currently a partner in a global consulting firm, he is a former journalist with […]