This podcast was created for our project Caring Stories, made possible by Newham’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Grant. The podcast was made during six workshops run by Eastside Community Heritage with a group of carers based in Newham to share their stories and make their voices heard for the caring community. The sound clips used in the podcast are taken from interviews with a group of carers during community oral history and podcasting workshops, where participants recorded each other...
Dec 15, 2023•15 min
In this podcast , we will be hearing from two black women who works at School 360 in Stratford. Andrea Silvain, Co-headteacher, and Charmaine Blake, Senior Administrator, will be telling us about how themselves and other black women have personified sisterhood by supporting one another through their careers and personal lives.
Oct 31, 2023•11 min
This podcast shares sound clips from our project Home from Home: Somali Women's Stories, which were recorded as oral histories by young women from members of Somali Senior Citizens Club in Tower Hamlets. In the podcast, our volunteer Patrick pieces together oral histories from different women who all moved to London from Somali in the 1960s and 70s.
Sep 29, 2023•11 min
This podcast uses oral histories from our Tubular Bells and Copper Flowers project, that focuses on the experiences of local Londoners involved in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic opening ceremonies. The sound clips in this podcast have been chosen and edited by Newham residents in a podcast workshop run by Eastside Community Heritage at London Stadium Learning, for Newham Heritage Month.
Jun 30, 2022•21 min
In this podcast for Local History Month, we hear from residents and former residents of Marks Gate and North Chadwell Heath about their experiences of the developing areas in the 1950s and early 1960s. The oral histories featured in this podcast were recorded for our project, Remembering Marks Gate and North Chadwell Heath.
May 20, 2022•10 min
This year marks 100 years since women over the age of 30 received the vote – an important occasion Eastside wishes to celebrate. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, Appliance of Science tells the story of women in East London and how advancements in domestic technology has impacted on the role of women in society.
Nov 23, 2018•7 min
This episode features a wide range of oral histories — collected between 1999 and 2017 — giving a picture of how the cultural significance of jazz changed, from the Charleston Era of the 1920s and 1930s, to the counterculture of the 1960s.
Aug 03, 2017•12 min
We're Not Finished! is Eastside's project for Women'sd HIstory Month 2016. It looks at womens activism in the East End with a particular focus on gender inequality. This podcast looks at the roles unions have played in these campaigns.
Mar 04, 2016•8 min
In this podcast we celebrate LGBT History Month and discuss the impact of Section 28.
Feb 10, 2016•10 min
In this podcast people share their stories of going to the cinema and the theatre in East London.
Feb 01, 2016•7 min
In this podcast we discuss the relevance of sport and the beginning of a new year.
Jan 22, 2016•5 min
This podcast is for Disability History Month 2015. It focuses on Phoenix School, which is for children aged 3 to 18 with learning disabilities.
Dec 16, 2015•4 min
In this podcast we hear about memories of bonfire night, fireworks and Guy Fawkes effigies
Nov 05, 2015•6 min
Discussing the politics and fashions of black hair in the UK.
Oct 20, 2015•4 min
Listen to the memories of fashion in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham over the past 50 years. We spoke to residents of the borough about what they wore and where they wore it.
Aug 27, 2015•7 min
This podcast explores people's memories of a beach on the Tower Bridge foreshore made specially for the residents of the East End of London.
Aug 19, 2015•7 min
After the Second World War Russia took military control of Hungary from Germany and enforced a strict communist regime. In 1956 Hungarian students staged a peaceful demonstration calling for the Russian military to leave and freedom of elections. The demonstrations turned violent and after a week of what looked like success for the revolutionaries the Russian military came back in force and violently put down the revolution sending thousands of freedom fighters fleeing west. Our project has reco...
Jun 22, 2015•34 min
Whipps Cross University Hospital in the London Borough of Waltham Forest has an illustrious past spanning the whole of the 20th century: from it's earliest origins as the West Ham Infirmary in 1903, to the birth of such well known figures such as Jonathon Ross, David Beckham and Richard Ayoade. At no period, however, was the hospital more urgently needed than it was during the First World War, 1914-1918, and to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, we took a closer look at the histor...
May 18, 2015•12 min
To celebrate LGBT history month, we decided to share some of our best stories about PRIDE London - the city's annual LGBT festival. How did Pride begin, and how different is it in 2015?
Feb 17, 2015•13 min
This episode of Eastside Stories explores the various reports of hauntings throughout the Eastend.
Feb 04, 2015•8 min
As part of Disability History Month, Eastside Community Heritage took to the streets of East London with an exhibition about post war employment for those with disabilities. In the podcast we hear stories from those who worked at Remploy and Newco, and ask what sort of employment those who are disabled today can hope to find. Thanks to all those who spoke to us openly and honestly about their personal experiences with disability.
Dec 19, 2014•10 min
Here, Eastside Community Heritage explore the archives about Jewish festivals in honour of Jewish New Year.
Sep 26, 2014•9 min
This Podcast takes a look at some of the stories behind Eastside's up coming Great War exhibition. It looks at the effects of the warfare on some of the soldiers and their families.
Aug 04, 2014•10 min
This episode focuses on the culture of Queens Market, a vibrant part of the Upton Park community where thousands of people come to shop and mingle every day since 1904. In this podcast, we feature four voices from the Queens Market community, discussing the role of the market in the community as a whole.
Jul 22, 2014•7 min
The area of Bethnal Green, has an interesting history and this week we are brining you stories from residence who live there.
Apr 22, 2014•6 min
Women in Sports
Mar 14, 2014•8 min
In honour of Women's History Month, we explore stories of East End women in the labour force.
Mar 11, 2014•5 min
Welcome to the Eastside Community Heritage podcast, bringing you stories from our archive of over 2000 oral histories and thousands of photographs. School, whether primary school or senior school, is more than just a place for many of us- it is a marker of time we use to measure our early lives, a space we had to learn and grow, a reminder of how our identity developed before we were really people. This is why commonplace moments, however fleeting, stay with us well into adulthood. This week, we...
Jan 17, 2014•9 min
At this time of the year, Eastside Community Heritage are thinking about the festive season- we hear all about Angel Lane market and dancing at the Ilford Palais...
Dec 23, 2013•4 min
Barking Park Peoples Stories and Memories Of The Park and Swimming Pool
Nov 21, 2013•8 min
