People’s Museum Somers Town

The area sandwiched between King’s Cross and Euston, Somers Town, has a rich history: the site of multiple social housing experiments, and once home to literary luminaries including Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, and William Wordsworth, today it possesses a fiercely tight-knit central London community – but it’s also an area where rapid change and the trappings of modernity are creeping up from all sides.