Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneering advocate for human rights and philosopher. Why isn’t she better remembered?
Tag: London
Jennings’ Buildings and Grenfell Tower: Housing the Poor in Kensington, Then and Now
Jennifer Davis finds historical precedent for the tragedy at Grenfell Tower in Victorian era Kensington’s Jennings’ Buildings.
Episode 3: History Acts – Housing in Crisis
In this episode, activists and historians discuss the UK housing crisis in contemporary and historical perspective.
The Eclectic Hall, Headquarters of Soho Radicalism
This article by Sarah Wise in the most recent issue of History Workshop Journal is freely available only for the month of April, 2017.
‘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
