People’s Museum Somers Town

The site of multiple social housing experiments, and once home to literary luminaries including Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, and William Wordsworth, Somers Town is an area with a rich history and a fiercely tight-knit local community. You can learn more about both at this community-run museum, set up by local resident Diana Foster in 2016 as an oral history project. It’s a must-visit for anyone interested in the history of one of London’s most fascinating locales.