28. SERVICES

HAD’s service standards are laid down in the Customer Charter and cover services to those who use the search room, write, telephone, fax or e-mail, and deposit or donate records. Copies of the Customer Charter are available by the visitors’ register.

HAD has a microprinter reader and a photocopier fitted with a cradle for tightly bound documents and published works. The majority of maps have been filmed on to aperture cards, which can be copied in part on the microprinter reader, or whole copies can be ordered through the Department’s photographic service . Consequently maps are not copied on the photo- copier. Copying of published works may be done by the public: documents and any items included in the archives are copied by staff.

HAD runs its own photographic service, copying black and white and colour. Reproduction fees are payable. all copying services are detailed in a separate leaflet, which gives current prices.

HAD has its own search service undertaken by a contractor. The search service standards and prices are covered in the Record Search leaflet.

HAD also runs a conservation service available to other local authorities, institutions and private individuals. 28. SERVICES There is no loan collection of local history items, but the slide collection is available for loan to local people and institutions.

29. PUBLICATIONS

HAD produces the Hackney Terrier newsletter four times a year for the Friends of Hackney Archives.

HAD has published postcards, greeting cards, facsimile maps and books as part of Hackney Council and in conjunction with commercial publishers. Publications are also supplied by post.

A current list of publications on sale is available from HAD

30. OTHER COLLECTIONS

Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London E2, Tel (020) 7739 8368 Special interest in furniture

Hackney Museum, Ground Floor, Hackney Technology and Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, London E8 [Next to Hackney Town Hall on Mare Street] Tel (020) 8356 2509

31. LOCAL HISTORY ORGANISATIONS

Friends of Hackney Archives Department Acts as local history society for Hackney and user group for the Archives Department Address: The Secretary, c/o Hackney Archives Department

Hackney Society Local amenity society Address: Chair/ Secretary, 115 Eleanor Road, London E8 1DN

East of London Family History Society Address: The Secretary, c/o Tower Hamlets Local History Library, 277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ East of London Family History Society Address: The General Secretary, 65 Rose Glen, Rush Green, Romford Essex RM7 0SL

Website: http://eolfhs.rootsweb.com

e.mail: roots-1-request@rootsweb.com ; Subject: archive; Message: get genealog.eolfhs01; all input in lower case; no extra spaces before the word get or after eolfhs01.

32. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hackney

Victoria County History for Inner Middlesex

(VCH)

Vol X

is the standard reference volume for Hackney. An earlier work is that of William Robinson's

The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hackney.

2 vols 1842-43. Rather more chatty, and with vivid recollections is Benjamin Clarke (FRCS)

Glimpses of Ancient Hackney and Stoke Newington

, 1893, reprinted with a new introduction, 1986 by the Department. There are also Isobel Watson’s

Hackney and Stoke Newington Past

, 1990, rev 1998, and David Mander’s

Strength in the Tower, an illustrated history of Hackney

, 1998.

Shoreditch

There is no VCH article on Shoreditch. The latest history is David Mander’s

More Light ,More Power, an illustrated history of Shoreditch

, 1996; the previous comprehensive history was by Henry Ellis The History and

Antiquities of the Parish of St Leonard Shoreditch and the Liberty of Norton Folgate

(1798). The Department holds a grangerised edition of 1844.

The Survey of London Vol VIII

of 1922 covers Shoreditch. Bettie Knott's

The Hub of Hoxton, Hoxton Street 1851-1871

(1981) is a good local study based on census returns and the Hackney Society have produced a report on the historic industrial and commercial buildings of South Shoreditch (1986) and an architecturally orientated history of Hoxton.

Stoke Newington

The comprehensive work is

the Victoria County History for Inner Middlesex Vol VIII

which includes Stoke Newington. South Hornsey is included in Vol VI, as part of the article on Hornsey. The latest history is David Mander’s

Look Back, look forwards, an illustrated history of Stoke Newington

, 1997. There are also the following books of old photographs and other illustrations of the area, all published by Sutton Publishing in association with LB Hackney.

The London Borough of Hackney in Old Photographs before 1914

. David Mander, 1989

The London Borough of Hackney in Old Photographs 1890-1960

. David Mander and Jenny Golden, 1991

Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill and Upper Clapton in Old Photographs

. David Mander and Bill Manley, 1995

Hackney, Homerton and Dalston in Old Photographs

David Mander, 1996

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