Eastside Stories

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 c...

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this podcast we celebrate LGBT History Month and discuss the impact of Section 28.

In this podcast people share their stories of going to the cinema and the theatre in East London.

In this podcast we discuss the relevance of sport and the beginning of a new year.

This podcast is for Disability History Month 2015. It focuses on Phoenix School, which is for children aged 3 to 18 with learning disabilities.

In this podcast we hear about memories of bonfire night, fireworks and Guy Fawkes effigies

Discussing the politics and fashions of black hair in the UK.

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.

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.

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 violen...

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, 191...

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?

This episode of Eastside Stories explores the various reports of hauntings throughout the Eastend.

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 pers...

Here, Eastside Community Heritage explore the archives about Jewish festivals in honour of Jewish New Year.

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.

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.

The area of Bethnal Green, has an interesting history and this week we are brining you stories from residence who live there.