Up the Youth Club

Youth clubs have been an important part of Hackney life for over a hundred years. Now, youth clubs are back on the national and local agenda. Suzannah Hall, Archive Heritage Project Manager at Hoxton Hall and Emma Warren, author of 'Up the Youth Club', a cultural history spanning the UK and NI, will be talking about the role of youth clubs in local life, past, present and future. These include public school settlement houses like Eton House in Hackney Wick or the role of youth clubs in local music culture. This talk will also discuss the ways that youth clubs show up in the archives of Hoxton Hall – or May's as it's still known to some – and the youth work that still goes on within the Hall.