This article by Sarah Wise in the most recent issue of History Workshop Journal is freely available only for the month of April, 2017.
Tag: London
‘Fallen Women’ at the Foundling Museum
In ‘Fallen Women,’ an exhibition held at the Foundling Museum, curators attempted, rather ambitiously, to explore this depiction of fallen women in period art.
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
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
