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The Peckham ladies anti-slavery fight in Southwark
Peckham was home to several prominent Quaker families

The 1980s Southwark mortuary scandal which saw corpses robbed of jewellery, cash, and their glands sold for growth hormones
The former superintendent of Southwark's mortuary new tell-all memoir lifts the lid on what really happened during the eighties

The Southwark boy who became Foreign Secretary
Brown allegedly threatened to resign from cabinet nearly twenty times during his career