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East End Lives
By John Rennie (johnrennie@gmail.com) Jack Dash and Jah Wobble, Stalin and Bernard Bresslaw: the cast of characters inhabiting the pages of eastlondonhistory.com is as enormous as it is diverse....
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‘Fallen Women’ at the Foundling Museum
Fran Bigman On my first visit to London’s Foundling Museum, which tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first children’s home (established by Thomas Coram in 1739), I was fascinated by...
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The Eclectic Hall, Headquarters of Soho Radicalism
Sarah Wise A tiny meeting house, converted from a chapel, stood at the back of number 18 Denmark Street, Soho, in London, until the 1880s. The Eclectic Hall regularly hosted a range of political...
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In this episode, we share recordings from a recent session of History Acts — a new radical history forum that works as gathering place for historians and activists. Their goal is to bring radical...
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Jennings’ Buildings and Grenfell Tower: Housing the Poor in Kensington, Then...
By Jennifer Davis The extreme discrepancy between the wealth of many Kensington inhabitants and those of Grenfell Tower is not a unique product of our times. Nor are the differences in the...
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We Choose Who Lives Forever: A Monument to Mary Wollstonecraft
Bee Rowlatt Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759 and died a mere 38 years later. In this short time and against unpleasant odds, she changed the world and the way we live in it. But how well is she...
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Remembering 1968 – The Poster Workshop, 1968-71
By Sam Lord The Poster Workshop, a screen printing collective run entirely by volunteers, was founded in 1968. It operated out of the damp and dingy basement of 61 Camden Rd, London N1. As today,...
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Tina and Bobby: Celebrity, Swinging London and the 1966 World Cup Final
In the last instalment in our History Workshop World Cup series, John Hughson explores England’s World Cup in the context of the “Swinging Sixties”, and the untold stories of the women around the...
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Remembering 1968: The Campus of the Anti-University of London
By Oisín Wall For many in London in 1968 there was a palpable sense that the world was on the brink of the ‘invisible insurrection of a million minds,’ as novelist and Situationist Alex Trocchi called...
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Episode 7: Marx’s London
In this audio walking tour – consisting of ten 10-minute episodes – we explore the streets of Marx’s London, the sites where Karl Marx lived and worked in his 34 years in Britain’s capital. Guided by...
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Family History and My Huguenot Ancestors
Twenty years ago when I first embarked on my family history, I had no idea how exciting it would be. I knew virtually nothing about my maternal ancestry. My mother had died five years earlier and there...
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Stop and search and the politics of policing
Metropolitan Police. Wikimedia Commons. This article accompanies Jonah Miller’s new History Workshop Journal article, ‘The Touch of the State: Stop and Search in England, c.1660–1750 – which is open...
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Immigration Control in Late Medieval England
UK border agency vessel patrolling. Photo credit: Ian Kirk In December 2018, the UK government published a white paper setting out the guidelines of its future, post-Brexit immigration policy. Central...
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Performative walking round the radical pubs and coffee houses of London
I co-run performative walks down here in Gloucestershire, pursuing and recreating radical history on the hoof in the landscape. But don’t think our group parochial – we wander into Wiltshire and into...
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Food Walking and the Itineraries of Radical History
This HWO piece reflects on the #eattalkwalk ‘history of food walking-workshop’ that took place in London on 1 July 2019 and accompanies Charlie Taverner’s article ‘Consider the Oyster Seller: Street...
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Walking as radical history on the East End Women’s Museum Trail
If you tried to list famous historical figures from British history, you might be forgiven for being able to name significantly less women than men. After all, women are still routinely side-lined or...
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Police, Press & Race in the Notting Hill Carnival ‘Disturbances’
On the 7th May 2020, at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, news broke that this year’s Notting Hill Carnival would be cancelled. Set to take place this August Bank Holiday weekend, the...
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Radical Object: Half Moon Gallery Comments Book
Most people don’t visit the laundrette to look at photographs. But in the winter of 1980, customers at the Mile End Laundrette in East London encountered a sensitive photographic portrayal of a...
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Online Event: The Origins of Jewish Immigration Social History in Manchester...
A People’s History Museum Event – The origins of Jewish immigration social history in Manchester and London An illustrated talk and conversation discussing the origins of Jewish immigrant oral history...
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Nipping Back
A wintry midday in the West End, 1926. The Coventry Street Corner House emits an enticing glow. Inside, the latest jazz standard barely covers the sound of clattering plates. The lunchtime rush is...
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