East End Lives
John Rennie writes about the East London History website, whose brief is to cover the history of the East End of London, from when the Romans arrived to the present day
A Harrow African/Black History Month Event: ’25 Years On…’
A Harrow African/Black History Month event marking the 25th anniversary of the introduction Black History Month in Britain and Labour Party’s Black Section’s success with the election of 4 African and Asian MPs in 1987
Jewels in the Crown? The Archives of Empire
Annual conference of the British Records Association on Monday 10th December 2012
Psychoanalysis and History Seminars 2012/13
Seminars for 2012/13 at the Institute of Historical Research, which explores the history of psychoanalysis and the contributions of psychoanalytic theory to historical understanding
Stall Stories
London’s street markets have always ebbed and flowed, but a recent oral history-based film project has shown that challenges still continue
Review: Australian Aboriginal Protest in Interwar Europe
A short review of the life of A.M. Fernando, the first an Aboriginal Australian activist to present the Aboriginal cause directly to the European public in the 1920′s
Framing East London 2012
Olympic legacies, the question of heritage and the Winning Words project at the Olympic Park in London’s East End
The Edwardian Press & Melodrama in the Aftermath of the Sidney Street Siege
The 1911 Sidney Street siege in London marked a particular juncture in the history of British immigration, tying together Victorian concerns about the urban environment, along with modern fears surrounding immigration and the supposed impact of ‘foreign’ elements on British society
Oral History & Creative Non-Fiction: Telling the Lives of the Sugar Girls
Duncan Barrett, co-author of the book, ‘The Sugar Girls’, writes about the women who worked at Tate & Lyle’s two factories in Silvertown, London, in the years following the Second World War, and methodologies in oral history
‘The Working Class Organised’ 5th May 2012
Conference/Rally at the Bishopsgate Institute 5th May 2012 10am – 5pm on the life and times of Bert Ramelson and the lessons to be learned
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