Covering Newington Green's history, The Village That Changed the World tells the fascinating story of the developmentof Newington Green from its first mention in 1480 to the Green's successful regeneration in 2004. 

From a secluded hamlet surrounded by a forest used as an aristocratic pleasure ground, through its development into a Dissenting community which encouraged rational thinking, educational reform, scientific discovery, political debate and on to much destruction by heavy bombing in WW2 and 1960's planners. 

The Village That Changed the World is a story of secret meetings, king's concubines, war, poets, exile, discovery, revolutionaries, wallpaper, philosophers, regicide, destruction, renewal, Chinese missionaries, artificial flowers and fizzy drinks!

• Did you know that the American Constitution was conceived in Newington Green?

• Did you know that the mother of feminism ran a girls school in Newington Green?

• Did you know that the first school to teach in English and not Latin was in Newington Green?

• Did you know that Newington Green is the village that changed the world?

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• 57 pages with 188 contemporary and historic photographs and illustrations.

• Winner of the Walter Bor Media Award 2010