The Boss of Bethnal Green (cover by David Pearson)
I will be speaking at the following events about ‘The Boss of Bethnal Green’. Details of previous events are included below – if you are interested in booking a talk, please get in touch via the ‘Contact‘ page.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday 31 May 2018 – LONDON HISTORY DAY!
London History Day is an annual celebration of the capital’s extraordinary history and heritage run by Historic England. In association with the Huguenots of Spitalfields I will be giving a talk at Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives. This is where I did much of the research for my book and I will be talking about Joseph Merceron and explaining how I used the archives to uncover his story.
18.00-19.30, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, 277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ.
PAST EVENTS
Saturday 18 November 2017: Write Idea Festival, Whitechapel
Saturday 18 November 2017: Southwark Cathedral
‘Further stories of London‘: four authors talking about our work on London stories old and new. Other authors taking part were Virginia Rounding – The Smithfield Martyrs, George Goodwin – Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father; Caroline Shenton – Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament
Thurs 25 May 2017: Antique Beat Salon no. 46,
Westminster Arts Library, 35 St Martins Street, London WC1
‘Capital Crimes! What lies beneath?’: London has always been a criminal city, although these days it may be city traders rather than highwaymen who are doing the dirty work.
Two authors dip a toe into the murky world of the capital’s underworld.
MAX DECHARNE + JULIAN WOODFORD
Thurs 4 May 2017: The Wanstead Tap
7.30 pm, Arch 352, Winchelsea Road, London E7 0AQ
The Boss of Bethnal Green: Joseph Merceron, the Godfather of Regency London
by Julian Woodford
National Portrait Gallery lunchtime lecture
Thursday, 15th December 2016, 13:15; Ondaatje Wing Theatre.
200 years ago Spitalfields was home to Joseph Merceron, gangster and staggeringly corrupt magistrate, who accumulated enormous wealth for half a century while presiding over the creation of London’s poorest slums. Biographer Julian Woodford explores his life and legacy.
Wednesday, 30th November 2016, 7.00pm, 3 Cheshire Street, London E1 6ED
Thursday, 17th November 2016, 7.30pm, Latimer Congregational Church Hall, Ernest Street, London E1.
Tuesday 8th November, 2016, 7.30.pm. The Gentle Author presents “The Boss of Bethnal Green – Joseph Merceron, the Godfather of Regency London” with Julian Woodford.
Thursday, 3rd November 2016, Hanbury Hall, Hanbury Street, Spitalfields E1. Spitalfields Life Books and the Huguenots of Spitalfields present ‘The Boss of Bethnal Green’.
