How has the concept of “useful knowledge” shaped the 200-year history of Birkbeck College London – and of adult education more generally? Joanna Bourke, Jonny Matfin, and Ciarán O’Donohue discuss in this episode of the History Workshop podcast.
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Family History Workshop Launch: Victoria Haskins, ‘Family Histories and the Memories of Nations’ – 2 November, Birkbeck
Launch event for the new Family History Workshop, a new initiative by the Raphael Samuel History Centre: Victoria Haskins, ‘Stories my great-grandmother didn’t tell me, Or, family histories and the memories of nations’.
‘Archives of Feeling’: Matt Cook on the AIDS crisis in Britain, c.1987
‘Archives of feeling’ are fundamental to our understanding of intersecting social and intimate lives – past and present.
