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Links to other sites of interest

• The Old Town Hall is also home to the Richmond-upon-Thames Local Studies Collection, which has a wide range of historical material on-line, and to the Riverside Gallery, which provides a year-round programme of exhibitions.
  
  
• Richmond-upon-Thames Heritage Guides are a voluntary society promoting local history and offering historical walks around the borough and talks to interested groups.
  
  
• The Richmond Local History Society exists to encourage and publish research into the history of the old borough of Richmond including Kew, Petersham and Ham.
  
  
• Orleans House Gallery has a varied programme of exhibitions in the main house and Stables Gallery.
  
  
• Twickenham Museum - for a fine collection of local history on the Middlesex bank, visit our colleagues across the river.  
  
  
• The West London Museums Education Group (WLMEG) is a partnership focusing on the educational services provided by museums in the west London area.
  
  
• HistoryWorld consists of some 400 separate Histories and 4000 tagged events. Choose HISTORIES to read a chosen subject, and to move from one History to another. Try TOURS to travel through time by your own route. Use WHATWHENWHERE to discover what was going on at any moment. The Museum of Richmond time line can be found here. See also the Richmond Palace Gallery at TudorHistory.org.
  
  
• OCEANindex (the One-Click Edited Access Network) indexes the best history content on the net.
  
  
• The artist David Hankin offers attractive prints of south-west London and the Richmond area.