by Esther Freeman | Dec 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Esther Freeman | Jun 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Esther Freeman | Feb 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Esther Freeman | Jun 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Esther Freeman | May 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
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....
by Esther Freeman | Apr 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
We’re recruiting a team of volunteers to collect oral history interviews as part of our project Beyond Medicine: a social history of women and pandemics. You will receive training from the Oral History Society, before interviewing women who supported their...
