Judith Summers
Casanova in Soho
The Venetian adventurer’s 1763 arrival in London, Teresa Cornelys and Carlisle House.
Read the story →From the archive
Soho Stories
From the Museum of Soho archive
Background photograph: Robert Stallard · Museum of Soho permanent collection
Digital archive
Stories recovered from our earlier website
These articles and projects formed part of the Museum’s original online archive. We are bringing them back into the new digital Museum of Soho while preserving authorship, acknowledgements and provenance.
Prof. Joan Navarre
A Welsh Dairy in Soho
The Pugh family and Oxford Express Dairies at 26 Frith Street.
Read the story →Prof. Joan Navarre
157 Wardour Street: Then & Now
Georges Chanot III and Soho’s remarkable violin-making history.
Read the story →Prof. Joan Navarre
The Pierpoint Monument
The lost St Anne’s monument of Lady Grace Pierpoint and its reappearance at auction.
Read the story →Museum archive
The St Anne’s Clock
The parish clock, bell and surviving tower of St Anne’s.
Read the story →FrenchMottershead
OVER THE THRESHOLD
The 2011 FrenchMottershead photographic project made with residents of Soho and presented by The Photographers’ Gallery.
Read the story →Museum of Soho × Proboscis / Bookleteer
Soho Memoirs
In 2014 the Museum of Soho collaborated with Proboscis to publish three memoirs by Soho residents from the Museum’s archive. The publications were distributed through Bookleteer’s The Periodical and at a special Museum of Soho event at the House of St Barnabas. Proboscis later issued a limited Soho Memoirs set in 2015.
Harold Lun
Recollections
A Museum archive memoir preserving Harold Lun’s recollections of Soho, published through the Museum’s collaboration with Proboscis and Bookleteer.
Read the original Bookleteer edition →Alf & Nance Wood
Recollections of Geo. Benford & O’Shea
Memories of Soho working life from Alf and Nance Wood, preserved in the Museum archive and published as part of the Soho Memoirs collaboration.
Read the original Bookleteer edition →Henry Long
A London Childhood 1926–1939
Henry Long’s account of a London childhood between the wars, published as the third Museum of Soho collaboration in the Soho Memoirs series.
Read the original Bookleteer edition →Publication collaboration: The Museum of Soho and Proboscis / Bookleteer. The memoirs originate in the Museum of Soho archive.