History

Dart Used To Avoid Mass Extinction

NASA recently launched a spacecraft carried by Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to see if it will be possible to prevent potentially hazardous asteroids...

Remembrance Day 2021

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month people all over the UK and the Commonwealth observe two minutes’ silence...

The London 2012 Olympics: A Historic Games, With A Proposed Long-term Benefit for The East London Area?

When the area of Stratford is mentioned, what is the first thing that springs to mind? Westfield or Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, right? Well, go...

The Story and Legacy of Walter Tull

"Through his actions, Tull ridiculed the barriers of ignorance that tried to deny people of colour equality with their contemporaries. His life stands testament...

Great Names To Be Aware Of #DHMPT3

When you hear names like Albert Einstein or Maya Angelou, their discoveries or creativity may spring to mind. However what you may not know...

From The Founder Himself Here’s Why Disability History Month Matters #DHMPT2

Former teacher and disabled activist Richard Rieser, from Newington Green, is the founder of Disability History Month (DHM) and organises the month of celebration...

Making Black History: Today’s Trailblazers

After a summer of lockdowns and heated protests against racial injustice, the contribution to British society made by these seven trailblazers, is especially welcome. Lavinya...

Laurie Cunningham: Leyton Orient to Los Blancos

For many young supporters, the name Laurie Cunningham isn't a familiar one, despite the former O’s man arguably being their greatest ever player and...

Previous Easter Days When Something Actually Happened!

For obvious reasons Easter has been a non-event this year. But it hasn't always been like this. Here are five Easters which made history...including...

Nightingale and Seacole: What’s In A Hospital Name?

When the Excel conference centre in Docklands was converted into a hospital, it was fittingly named after Florence Nightingale.  The next corona crisis hospital,...

1920 vs 2020: History Repeating…..?

As COVID-19 spreads across the UK and the rest of the world, not only are we facing a scary pandemic, the global economy is...

Posts from the Pandemic No 13: Previous Plagues and Foreigner Phobia

In the early 1900s Mary Mallon, a woman of Irish descent working in New York as a cook, was infected with typhoid. Although Mallon...
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75 Years After Dresden

In the first of an occasional series of podcasts on the issues behind important anniversaries, Tom Lathbury and Irmak Dogan join Zuleika Rodriguez to...

Who Was Blair Peach?

At 6.30pm on the 23rd April a commemoration was held for Blair Peach, an East Londoner and anti-racism campaigner who died 40 years ago...

Women Having It Large

We’re supposed to be satisfied. Now that ladies have the vote and gentlemen are meant to check their privilege, the problem of women’s oppression...
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Women Strike Again!

This year's International Women's Day march in London included calls for a women's strike from groups who want to reclaim the radical history of...

Bravery Beyond Price…On Sale Online

As we approach the hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, the bravery of the men and women who served our...

The Resurrection of St Luke’s

October saw the resurrection of a much loved church on the Isle of Dogs. St Luke’s Church in Alpha Grove E14 was bombed during the...

Tory Rush to Apologise Over Windrush is Just Hot Air

As a grandchild of the Windrush generation, I listened with annoyance to the rhetoric of the Conservatives' recent insubstantial apology to my forebears. I cannot...

First Time Burlesque

My first ever burlesque experience was back when I was 18, on the Southbank in London. I was thrown into a world of sparkles,...

Depicting The Destruction Of Robin Hood

Recently I paid a visit to E14’s dear-old, diminishing friend – the Robin Hood Gardens estate – with my trusty Nikon in-hand. What once...

Embroidering My Stresses Away

With origins as far back as circa 1000BC China, embroidery is an art form that has spanned across the globe with its intricacy and...
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Remembrance Day: Observing The Tradition

When the clock strikes 11 on 11 November, voices are meant to hush, feet halt and heads drop in solemn remembrance of all the...

Warehouse (Tour) Party

After hearing about the opening of the new gallery at the Museum of London Docklands I couldn’t resist checking it out. I’d never been...