ICI London presents the next event of The Italian Library, a collaboration with Italian books unquestioned authority Ornella Tarantola, formerly manager of the Italian Bookshop. In our beautiful Montale Library, Ornella talks about books and writers, music and Sanremo, star signs and podcasts, Gadda, and Virginia Woolf.
The eighth event is on Monday 13 May (6.30 pm). This event will be a talk with Tudor Allen, Senior Archivist at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre. This illustrated talk will tell the history of London’s Italian quarter from the time of the first Italian settlers up to the last days of the community in the later 20th century. Ice-cream, organ-grinders and monkeys, hokey-pokey men, murder, gangsters and spectacular processions are just some of the ingredients that make the story of the Italians of Holborn and Clerkenwell one full of colour, incident, and drama.
This is an in-person event and will be conducted in English.
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Tudor Allen is Senior Archivist at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre. Tudor grew up in Cumbria, coming down to London to attend university where he studied English Literature. After a number of years working in the Civil Service, Tudor trained as an archivist. After a period working as the Assistant Archivist for St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, he worked for eight years as the Archivist for the London Borough of Redbridge before taking up his current post in 2007. As part of his work, Tudor has produced a number of local history exhibitions including one on Dickens and Camden, given several talks on a range of subjects relating to Camden history, and written a book on Little Italy. The Story of London’s Italian Quarter.