004 Life and death
🪦 Interview

What London’s dead can tell us

Deptford’s burial grounds, Victorian funerals and remembrance.
☠️ Coming soon

Great plague of Deptford

What happened when the plague reached Deptford in 1665?

⚰️ Data

London is running out of space to bury people

The capital’s shrinking burial space.
☠️ Data

What Londoners died of in the 1600s

How recorded causes of death changed across the seventeenth century.
003 Town Hall
🏛️ Interview

Inside Deptford’s changing future

A conversation about housing, bikes, and what comes next for Deptford.
🏛️ Interview

How Deptford keeps its Deptfordness

Spend more time in Deptford, and its true character starts to appear.
002 Visualising Deptford
🐶 Place names

A Deptford joke?

How the Isle of Dogs may have got its name.
🧭 Maps

Deptford in 1623

Can you navigate Deptford with a 400-year-old map?
⚓️ Panorama

Dockyard blueprint

One engraving from 1753 shows Britain’s naval power drawn to scale.
🎞️ Photography

Every shopfront

How to document all 186 frontages on Deptford High Street.
001 Crime and punishment
Featured

High Street murders

A quiet shop, two bodies, and the fingerprint evidence that rewrote police work.
⏳ Interactive

Crime timeline

Five centuries of murders, riots, executions, and wrongful convictions.
⚔️ History

Tax fight

In 1497, the Cornish rebellion turned Deptford Bridge into a battlefield.

Brookmill Park Birds

A tiny sliding-tile game about our local wildlife. Match the birds and meet the species you can spot in the park.
Beyond⚓️Deptford
Featured

London in data

Maps, charts and visual stories about the city.
📈 Data

A century of London’s population

How London’s population changed from 1921 to 2021.
🍺 Data

London’s pub decline

While all boroughs were losing pubs, Hackney got some.
🏙️ Housing

London’s affordable housing

Explore 1,641 large London housing applications from 2011–2026.
🏛️ Data

Listed London

All 19,367 listed-building entries in London, mapped.

About the diarist

I’m Elia Kabanov, science writer and habitual walker. Deptford has more history per square metre than most of London. I’ve been documenting it ever since I moved here.

Elia Kabanov
elia@kabanov.org

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