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Upcoming talks
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Free talk: The Spectacular Downfall of a Victorian Detective
A talk for Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival 2025 and National Crime Reading Week Naomi Clifford explores the life of Chief Inspector Nathaniel Druscovich, the ‘golden boy’ of the Metropolitan Police detective division, who was caught up in a major corruption scandal and died in Vauxhall in disgrace. Druscovich appears as a character in Naomi’s recent true crime novel 13 Park Lane. FREE Date: 25 June 2025, 6.30pm Tate South Lambeth Library 180 South Lambeth Road London SW8 1QP
Past talks
Mrs Meredith and the Convict Laundries of Vauxhall and Stockwell
Susanna Meredith was a Victorian philanthropist and social worker who established laundries for the employment of ex-convicts. The talk explores the history of laundry work as punishment and rehabilitation.
Under Fire: the wartime diaries of a Chelsea Volunteer Ambulance driver
Based around my book of the same name, this talk looks at the experiences of a debutante who joined the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service in Chelsea in the summer of 1940.
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Stockwell War Memorial at 100
For Lambeth History Unlocked
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By Her Own consent: The Murder of Mary Ashford and Rape Culture in the Georgian Era
1817: After the man accused of the rape and murder of a young Birmingham servant was acquitted, outraged local gentlemen funded a private prosecution. So why did they also blame the victim for her own fate?
