Fr Luke Miller became Archdeacon of London in 2016. After reading History in Cambridge he trained for the priesthood in Oxford. He was ordained in 1991, became vicar of St Mary’s Tottenham in 1995 and Archdeacon of Hampstead in 2010. Fr Luke has been Chair of Governors of a school in Tottenham, and on the Councils of Hailyebury and S Stephen’s House. He has been a Boys’ Brigade and Sea Cadet Chaplain and is London Area Chaplain for the Sea Cadets. Luke is married to Jacqui, and they have three sons. Fr Luke chairs a Faith-based disaster response panel for the Faith Forum for London.

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Married in 1950, Chris and Betty Birch have been involved in political, trade union, and LGBTQ+ activism for over 60 years. Sharing similar interests, they were both Communist Party Members and involved with organisations such as the Aid to Spanish Youth Committee. After the death of his friend, Mark Ashton, Chris became involved in forming the Mark Ashton Memorial Trust, which was created to raise money for individuals living with HIV. The archive includes the truncheon taken from the police by Mark Ashton, correspondence, personal scrapbooks, press cuttings, and various other papers relating to the couples activism.