Ian Gwinn on the ways the Stone Roses encountered an earlier generation of counterculture.
Tag: memory
Remembering 1968: Children of the New Age at Columbia University
By Nancy Biberman We were an optimistic and righteous generation, many of us conceived and raised by men and women who had survived World War II. My dad was an Army combat vet who fought in the South Pacific and trained GIs on the use of top-secret proximity fuse weaponry. […]
The 1943 Bethnal Green Shelter Disaster: 75 Years of Forgetting and Remembering
In March 1943, 173 people were crushed to death as they took shelter in Bethnal Green’s underground station. Toby Butler led a project remembering the disaster.
We Choose Who Lives Forever: A Monument to Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneering advocate for human rights and philosopher. Why isn’t she better remembered?
The Pacifist Handkerchief
The pacifist handkerchief invites reflections on contested memories in modern Japanese history.
Heygate Estate’s stories: Home sweet Home & Ghost Town
Filmmaker Enrica Colusso explores regeneration and community at south London’s now demolished Heygate Estate in her film Home Sweet Home and interactive multimedia project Ghost Town.
Radical Recipes: Women, Work and Cornish Pasties
Sarah Hiorns explains the forgotten histories behind her family’s written, typed, and laminated recipe for Cornish pasties.
The Indian Memory Project
Designer and photographer Anusha Yadav writes about the Indian Memory Project website, a visual and oral history of the Indian sub-continent through family and personal archives
Secondary Modern
Michael Rosen and Emma-Louise Williams explain the background to their website, Sec Mod, which is collecting memories of education at secondary modern schools in Britain
Losing the Memory of Generations
David Horsfield, who was College Librarian at Ruskin from 1972 to 2004, reflects on the destruction of archives there
