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Spitalfields Life Chit Chats: Smithfield Market
December 04, 2015 16:22 - 59.5 MBThe Gentle Author of the popular blog Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. As part of our Spitalfields Life Chit Chats, butchers, Joe Lawrence, Greg Lawrence and Peter Sargent present a lively look at Smithfields Market and life as a butcher from the 1960s up to the present day. If you enjoy listening to this event do take a look at the...
Spitalfields Life Chit Chats: Billingsgate Market
December 04, 2015 16:10 - 56.5 MBThe Gentle Author of the popular blog Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. As part of our Spitalfields Life Chit Chats, fishmonger Charlie Caisey talks about his life as a fishmonger and Billingsgate Market. If you enjoy listening to this event do take a look at the other events we have coming up.
Slingin' the Old Jack Lang: The history of rhyming slang
November 10, 2015 12:49 - 39.6 MBRhyming slang can claim to be London's one truly home-grown language. It may have started around 1830 among the canal-digging navvies, the villains of St Giles or, as is most likely, the costermongers of the East End, spreading over time to Australia and the United States. But it remains the most quintessentially 'London' of all slang's vocabularies. It isn't a vast lexis, something over 3,000 words in all, but it's still going strong. Like black cabs and red telephone kiosks it's not what it...
Votes, Wages and Milk: The East London Federation of Suffragettes
November 10, 2015 12:36In October 1912 Sylvia Pankhurst climbed onto a wooden platform outside an old baker's shop on Bow Road, and painted the words 'VOTES FOR WOMEN' in golden letters above the door. What began as a simple recruitment drive for the Women's Social and Political Union soon sparked a rebellion in the suffragette ranks, and launched a mass movement for equality with Roman Road market at its heart. Get to know these forgotten East End rebels, who always said that votes for women were just the beginnin...
A Time Travelling History of London
October 23, 2015 10:31 - 57.7 MBFollowing the publication of London: A Travel Guide Through Time, join historian and broadcaster Dr Matthew Green on an historical journey through 800 years of London's history, from the depths of the Middle Ages, through the time of Shakespeare, the Great Plague and Empire, to the pummelling of the city during the Blitz, and its resurrection in the gloomy 50s.If you enjoy listening to this event do take a look at the other events we have coming up.
Red Ken's GLC: Loonies or Visionaries?
October 21, 2015 12:31Between 1981 and 1986, Ken Livingstone led the most experimental, controversial and influential city government in modern British history. In Promised You a Miracle, a new and revelatory book about Britain in the early 1980s, acclaimed historian and Guardian journalist Andy Beckett uncovers the forgotten triumphs and disasters of Livingstone's Greater London Council: from its doomed attempt to make the capital a citadel against Thatcherism to its far-sighted efforts to transform London for wo...
LGBT London in the 1980s - The Media and the 'Loony Left' label
May 05, 2015 14:52The success of the recent film Pride has sparked new interest in the history of LGBT activism in the 1980s. Colin Clews, author of the informative and popular blog 'Gay in the 80s' and prominent and outspoken campaigner for equalities Linda Bellos OBE reflect on life in the 80s for LGBT people. In partnership with the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA). If you enjoy listening to this event do take a look at the other events we have coming up.
The Inaugural C R Ashbee Lecture: The Seven Dark Arts of Developers
April 23, 2015 13:03The East End Preservation Society and Bishopsgate Institute are delighted to present the Inaugural C R Ashbee Memorial Lecture. This lecture honours C R Ashbee (1863 – 1942) as founder of the Guild of Handicrafts in the East End, as a pioneer of the Conservation Movement, and a progressive architect and designer whose influence was seminal upon Frank Lloyd Wright among many others.If you enjoy listening to this event do take a look at the other events we have coming up.
Dr Barnardos in the East End of London
March 11, 2015 12:12Poverty, slums and hungry children. Find out what sights met Doctor Barnardo in London's East End in 1866 with historians Sarah Wise and Ken Worpole. If you enjoy listening to this event do take a look at the other events we have coming up at www.bishopsgate.org.uk.
Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War
January 08, 2015 11:39Acclaimed writer and historian Jerry White takes a unique look at London during the First World War as seen through the eyes of the people who lived there.If you enjoyed listening to this event do take a look at the other events we have coming up. Recorded live on Thursday 27 November at Bishopsgate Institute.
Owen Jones presents a biting critique of the British Establishment
November 14, 2014 09:45 - 234 KBBehind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on Thursday 6 November 2014. If you enjoyed listening to this event do t...
50 Years of Wexford with Ruth Rendell
November 10, 2014 14:12 - 231 KBHighly acclaimed crime writer Ruth Rendell looks back over 50 years of Wexford. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on Thursday 30 October 2014. If you enjoyed listening to this event do take a look at the other events we have coming up.
Eleanor Marx: A Life
November 04, 2014 18:06Rachel Holmes introduces her new book on both the public and the private lives of the exceptional Eleanor Marx (1855–98). This podcast was recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on Tuesday 21 October 2014. If you enjoy listening to this event find out more about events at Bishopsgate Institute www.bishopsgate.org.uk
Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
October 24, 2014 10:47 - 71 MBLee Jackson explores the secret life of the Victorian metropolis, focusing in particular on the birth of public baths and the peculiar history of the public toilet. Recorded live on 16 October 2014
Ten Cities that Made an Empire
June 26, 2014 12:00 - 110 KBTristram Hunt, author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through ten cities that epitomised it. The final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: of 1700s Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and 20th ...
The Evolution of Feminism and the Raunch Culture
May 14, 2014 12:02 - 38.5 KBRosamund Urwin of the Evening Standard chairs a discussion about the raunch culture and its impact on modern feminism. Can you still be a feminist if you bare your body for a living? Or has feminism come so far that women now hold the power? Rosamund is joined by Sarah Mathewson from feminist campaign group OBJECT, Barbara Haigh, a former Playboy Bunny Girl and Catherine Stephens, an activist for the International Union of Sex Workers.
The Enemy Within
May 09, 2014 15:57 - 38.5 KBThirty years ago, miners went on strike across Britain to resist the Tory government's plans for sweeping pit closures. The strike remains the longest mass industrial dispute in British history - a war between Margaret Thatcher and the labour movement, and the miners’ union she branded "the enemy within" in particular. The strike’s outcome signalled a profound change in Britain’s social and economic landscape and its aftershocks can still be felt throughout the country today. The Enemy Withi...
'The Fairyland of Horror':Arthur Morrison, Arthur Harding and the rebranding of the Old Nichol Slum
April 07, 2014 17:07 - 38.5 KBThe most notorious novel of the ‘slum fiction’ genre, Morrison’s A Child of the Jago, caused outrage, with its nihilistic depiction of a population of criminals and social outcasts. Morrison claimed that it was an eyewitness account of the real Old Nichol district of Shoreditch. Two years after publication, the rows the book engendered were ongoing in the periodical press. In this illustrated talk, author Sarah Wise (Inconvenient People, The Blackest Streets) explores the real slum that inspi...
Columbia Road: A Strange Kind of Paradise
April 01, 2014 13:23 - 99.2 KBBorn on Columbia Road, award-winning author Linda Wilkinson traces the history of the fragrant home of East London’s famous flower market. From the earliest times when the land was pastureland for cows whose milk supplied the City of London, through the influx of the Huguenot weavers and up to the present day, this talk is part historical and part social memoir based on familial recollections. Linda Wilkinson spent the first 25 years of her working life as a Research Scientist with many publi...
Dykes! Ditch Those Dungarees:Lesbians Do Fashion
December 13, 2013 09:25 - 38.5 KBLesbian fashion. A misnomer? Surely, lesbians don't do fashion. But contrary to perception, clothing and style have been a crucial part of establishing an identity for women who love women. But if what we wear says who we are, can we be sure we're all talking in the same dialect or could we be misread? And is it possible to be outside the language of fashion? Speakers were Campbell X (Film Director/writer) and Dr Caroline Walters (writer/researcher).
Fanny & Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
November 26, 2013 14:35 - 95.2 KBA tale of cross-dressing, cross-examinations and a scandal that shocked and titillated Victorian England in equal measure. The alluring Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton were no ordinary young women, they were young men who liked to dress as women. As their show trial unfolded, Fanny and Stella’s extraordinary lives as wives and daughters, actresses and whores were revealed to an incredulous public. With a cast of peers, politicians and prostitutes, drag queens, doctors and detectives, ...
A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries with Tony Benn
November 14, 2013 16:32 - 92.6 KBTo celebrate the publication of this final volume of his diaries, Tony Benn, in conversation with author, columnist and commentator Owen Jones, reflects on both the public and personal events of the last five years. Covering the fall of New Labour, tireless campaigning against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and passionate commitment to encouraging public debate and demonstrations, A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine also provides a highly personal insight into the challenges of old age, failing hea...
March Women March: Voices of the Women's Movement
November 11, 2013 14:01From the first truly feminist book in 1792 to women attaining the vote in 1928, Lucinda Hawksley highlights the women who relentlessly battled for social and political change. Hear accounts from the main protagonists from the women’s movement as well as lesser known suffragettes who pursued gender equality in Britain and marched to see justice for women brought to light. Lucinda Hawksley is a historian, author and lecturer. Her biographies of women include Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre...
All Boys Together: Homing in on Homosociality
November 05, 2013 19:11 - 38.5 KBAll boys together? Nudge nudge. The belief that all male institutions are breeding grounds for homosexuality, has been a constant one. But what does go on behind the doors of the executive boardroom or the communal changing room? Is homosexuality the elephant in the room? The serpent in the grass? Or is it all just homosexual wish fulfilment fantasy? Justin Bengry explores all male institutions and their links with homosociality and homosexuality. Speaker Justin Bengry is an Honorary Research...
Not Just Beer and Bingo! A Social History of Working Men's Clubs
October 16, 2013 09:58 - 89.8 KBWe open the doors on that bastion of the British entertainment scene, the working men’s clubs. Hear about their development in the mid-19th century to their current period of decline. Why were they set up? What went on in them? And how did women come to find their own place in them? Drawing on personal accounts and experiences of those attending the clubs, this talk highlights the major roles they played and what made them such a central part of working class leisure. Dr Ruth Cherrington atte...
Modern Day Protest
July 25, 2013 09:45 - 85 KBThe world has always seen protest and dissent but in these difficult and changing times, how can the voices that challenge authority really be heard? How can a message reach the widest number of people? Which forms of resistance have the greatest impact? How can support be generated and who is really listening? From protests, rallies and direct action to worldwide digital petitions and 'armchair activism', our panel of experienced campaigners discuss methods of protest in today's modern world...
The ANC's London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid
June 19, 2013 12:46 - 82.6 KBBy 1966, the Apartheid regime in South Africa had all but annihilated the African National Congress (ANC), imprisoning its leaders or driving them into exile. To help keep their message of struggle alive and maintain a strategy of resistance from within, young men and women in London smuggled ANC literature into South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Sworn to secrecy, their work remained silent for forty years but in this unique event the London recruits tell their story and discuss the role of...
Seconds Out: A New Look at the Marquess of Queensberry
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Sylvia Pankhurst - Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire
May 29, 2013 17:31 - 38.5 KBKatherine Connelly examines Sylvia Pankhurst's life of activism from her teens as a member of the Independent Labour Party, to her time as a leading suffragette before the First World War, through to her socialist, anti-fascist and anti-imperialist campaigns in later years. She will also explore some of the contradictions in Pankhurst's career such as her role within the suffragette movement and why she ended her days under the patronage of the Emperor of Ethiopia. Katherine Connelly is the a...
London Calling - a look at London's subculture
March 05, 2013 18:16 - 38.5 KBIn conversation with John Harris, Barry Miles explores London’s counterculture - the creative, avant garde, permissive, anarchic - that sprang up in the city in the decades following the Second World War.
A Passenger's History of the Tube
March 05, 2013 13:53 - 76.9 KBWhy is the Victoria Line so hot? Is it really possible to go all the way round the circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and arguably illogical metropolitan transport system in the world. Yet it is iconic, relied upon by over a billion passengers a year and loved and despised in equal measure by Londoners. Find out everything you need to know in this witty and informative account of the social history of the Tube with journalist and novelist Andrew Martin.
Cottaging and Cruising in the Capital
February 21, 2013 16:42 - 75.2 KBSex between men in public areas such as toilets and parks has been commonplace for at least a century, and continues today. Peter Kelley of LAGNA discusses this with writer and journalist Mark Simpson.
Tales from the Two Puddings
February 11, 2013 18:19In the four decades that the Johnson family ran the Two Puddings in Stratford, it became one of London’s busiest and most fashionable pubs. A magnet for a colourful cast of disparate characters, including renowned actors, writers, musicians, infamous gangsters, and World Cup-winning footballers. Hear landlord and author of Tales from the Two Puddings Eddie Johnson in conversation with Robert Elms to look back upon a lost world of East End eccentrics, local villainy and punch-ups and discuss h...
The Legacy of the Iron Lady: Are we all Thatcher's Children?
November 27, 2012 13:28 - 79.2 MBThe first female prime minister who also won three consecutive elections. But Margaret Thatcher is arguably better known for the policies to which her name became attached and which significantly altered the social and economic face of Britain. Yet despite deeply divided opinion, has ‘Thatcherism’ actually been embraced and sustained by subsequent British political parties? Privatisation, free market approach, cuts to taxes as well as welfare spending, and tougher constraints on trade unions ...
Pride and Prejudice
November 14, 2012 16:29 - 45.1 MBA speaker at the 1985 Conservative Party Conference was cheered when he said, “If you want a queer for your neighbour, vote Labour!” Today, many leading Conservatives support gay marriage. A watershed in the long struggle for civil rights for LGBT citizens was resistance to Clause 28, which prohibited local authorities from presenting ‘homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’. How did such hostility and prejudice give way to tolerance and now, perhaps, the possibility, at last, of eq...
Riots on the Streets: What can we Learn?
October 17, 2012 19:00 - 39.2 MBRiots on the Streets:What can we Learn? Urban riots broke out across England in 2011, the worst since those of the 1980s. Then, as now, political authorities initially saw them as pure criminality. But is it coincidental that both eras are characterised by deepening inequality and economic crisis? What can the 1980s tell us about keeping the peace in troubled times? Are there lessons to be learnt in community relations and how communities are listened to or policed? Speakers included Sharon...
Poptastic: Music in the 80s
October 02, 2012 12:58 - 38.5 KBRewind 30 years to the 1980s. Hairstyles may best be forgotten but the pop music of the time had more to recommend it. Punk was fading into softer, more electronic genres as music technology evolved. The ‘New Romantics’ emerged as a dominant force in music championing fantasy and the imagination with bands such as Spandau Ballet and Culture Club enjoying chart success. The early part of the decade saw a revival of Ska whilst the charts were later dominated by pop producers Stock Aitken Waterm...
Why Philosophy Matters
September 27, 2012 10:35 - 63.8 KBBest-selling philosopher Julian Baggini explains the stories behind philosophy. Bringing together and interlinking its different areas, he creates an accessible and fascinating taste of philosophy and all that matters in it. Taking you to the very heart of the subject, Julian shows how abstract ideas feed into the most existential questions of all. Writer and journalist Julian Baggini was named on the Observer’s list of top public intellectuals. He is the editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine ...
Monarchy or Republic?
September 13, 2012 11:43 - 86.8 MBShould Britain retain a symbolic Head of State who, it is argued, is politically impartial and provides stability, a focus for national unity and a centrepiece for national celebrations? Or does the hereditary system need to be replaced by a democratically elected Head of State who others believe can also provide these services as well as being publicly accountable? Speakers included Graham Smith (Republic), Joan Smith (journalist and author), Peter Conradi (Sunday Times journalist, co-author...
Media and the Monarchy
May 04, 2012 11:20 - 59.9 KBThere was a time when the British public viewed their sovereigns from afar. The media is now filled with details of the Royal family’s private lives. Public demand, media profits and the need tokeep the monarchy in the public sphere have combined to bring the monarchy and royal family into close and constant focus. In this age of mass media and celebrity culture, this discussion explores the relationship between the palace and the press. Speakers include Professor Neil Blain (University of St...
City of London- The History
April 17, 2012 08:48 - 59.7 MBFrom its rise to prominence in the early 18th century through to its precarious global heights of today, David Kynaston gives a definitive history of the 'Square Mile', London's financial powerhouse.
Information Dissemination in a New Media Age
January 20, 2012 11:18 - 27.1 MBInformation Dissemination in a New Media Age Curated with Little Atoms as part of Whose Mind is it Anyway? at Bishopsgate Institute With rapidly developing new media and modes of mass communication, we continuously absorb information as well as giving information about ourselves. From political leaks to twitter, mobile location finders to credit card use, information is collected and roams. The beneficiaries are clear, with possible political advantages, marketing opportunities, subliminal ad...
Influencing Young Minds
January 10, 2012 15:29 - 32.9 MBThe introduction of the National Curriculum in 1988 laid out clear directions for schools on how young people should be taught. However the teaching of the next generation remains as controversial as ever the curriculum is widely debated and the very purpose of education often questioned. If, as some have argued, the role of the curriculum is to ensure that established knowledge is passed on or that good citizens are created and the problems of society addressed, then what are the implication...
A City at Risk from The City?
August 17, 2011 12:40 - 28.1 MBBishopsgate Institute Podcast: A City at Risk from the City with Nicholas Faith. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on 19 July 2011.
London in Fiction - Nightmare City
August 03, 2011 08:45 - 26.6 MBBishopsgate Institute Podcast: Nightmare City with Cathi Unsworth, China Mieville, Iain Sinclair and Andrew Whitehead. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on 14 July 2011.
The Gentrification of London
August 01, 2011 09:12 - 28.1 MBBishopsgate Institute Podcast: The Gentrification of London with Professor Chris Hamnett, David Partridge, Tom Hunter, and Robert Elms. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on 13 July 2011.
London in Fiction - Crime and the City
June 30, 2011 15:29 - 30.9 MBBishopsgate Institute Podcast: Crime and the City with Sarah Wise, Paul Duncan, Andrew Lane, Valentine Cunningham and Andrew Whitehead. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on 2 June 2011.
1911: A Vision of England
June 10, 2011 15:05 - 26.2 MBBishopsgate Institute Podcast: 1911 - A Vision of England with David Annal. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on 24 February 2011.
The Thirties: An Intimate History
June 09, 2011 15:32 - 23.1 MBBishopsgate Institute Podcast: The Thirties - An Intimate History with Juliet Gardiner. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on 3 March 2011.
The Census: Survey or Surveillance
April 21, 2011 16:29 - 25.6 MBBishopsgate Institute Podcast: The Census - Survey or Surveillance with Jil Matheson (Office for National Statistics), Phil Booth (NO2ID) and Tom Crook (Oxford Brookes University) as Chair. Recorded live at Bishopsgate Institute on 17 March 2011.