Our final events to celebrate women

Following our exhibition and the launch of our short film, we held two further community events to celebrate the contribution of women during pandemics. On Tuesday 5th December we held an additional screening of our short film at Big Creative Education in Walthamstow,...

Exhibition launches

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new exhibition – Beyond Medicine: a social history of women and pandemics Running from 20th June to 16th July, our exhibition sharing the stories of women in both the 1918 and 2020 pandemic will be on at The Mill...

Filming underway

Young people said they wanted to make a short film about the pandemic, so we have been working with students from The Big Creative to film interviews with some of our oral history contributors. Due to lack of archive footage around the 1918 pandemic, we will be using...

Volunteers ready for interviews

Our dedicated team of volunteers have now completed their oral history training and are ready and eager to start interviewing. The training was run by Rib Davis, who is affiliated to the Oral History Society. They learnt about a wide range of techniques, from...

Calling 2020 lockdown legends

When Britain went into national lockdown in March 2020, it was not only dealing with a health crisis, but a social one too. Stories of doctors and nurses battling on the frontline are numerous, but what happened more quietly in communities is less well documented....