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, in their state of the art cinema. Members of the local community …
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 in Walthamstow. It features photos from from award …
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 animation to mix these stories with the …
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 understanding how memory works, to managing equipment, copyright and data protection. …
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. These stories tend to involve small but important contributions, often …
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 community during the recent pandemic. This may be individuals who sewed scrubs during the PPE crisis, ran …
Back in 1918, it wasn’t a small group of conspiracy theorists denying there was pandemic. Almost everyone in Britain refused to acknowledge one of the worst outbreaks of influenza the world has ever seen. This collective silence makes uncovering the truth a huge challenge. When the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, I don’t …
On 10th November, four students from Leyton 6th Form College came together as part of the Beyond Medicine steering group, to help shape the direction of the project. They had already met before funding was granted to say what would interest them, giving ideas such as making documentaries and holding a fair at their school …
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