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Saving the Working Men’s Club: What would Grandad say!
Lisa Edwards The Anstice Community Trust was started in 2014 by a group of local people in Madeley, Shropshire to save a building that has played a part in the community for generations. The Anstice...
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Silvertown a century on: the mysterious cause and tragic legacy of London’s...
Toby Butler It was the most destructive explosion ever to blast London. A century ago, Silvertown, a small community in east London, was devastated by an explosion at a TNT factory so big that is was...
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The Maltreated and the Malcontents: Working in the Great Western Cotton...
Mike Richardson Think of cotton production in the nineteenth century and Lancashire springs to mind. Yet Bristol’s Great Western Cotton Works, founded in 1838, partly with capital derived from the...
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The 1943 Bethnal Green Shelter Disaster: 75 Years of Forgetting and Remembering
By Toby Butler This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of the Bethnal Green disaster, one of the worst civilian disasters in modern British history. One dark, wet evening in 1943, 173 people were...
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‘Up the Dale – history is made, not bought’: making history from below in the...
On 23rd November 2017, the remaining ‘iron men’ working at the Coalbrookdale Works in Shropshire clocked off for the last time and hung up their boots on the foundry gates. The image of the redundant...
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Remembering 1968: The Hackney Centerprise Co-operative
By Tom Woodin There has been a tendency to downplay the significance of the radical claims of the 1960s, not least among those in that age group who feel estranged from the ‘1968 generation’. On one...
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Researching race in contemporary Britain
Image from the author’s personal archive This photograph of me (back row centre) was taken in September 1996 on my 11th birthday in a park in Sparkhill, one of the many inner-city areas of Birmingham....
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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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Birmingham Revolutions: Protest in the Museum
Photography by David Rowan for BMT Photography 2019 With a very limited budget and under 12 months to complete, “Birmingham Revolutions – Power to the People” is a temporary exhibition at Birmingham...
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