Eastside Stories

Eastside Stories

Stories from our archive of over 4000 interviews with East Londoners. Visit www.hidden-histories.org.uk for more.

Episodes

December 15, 2023 15 mins
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 ...
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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. 
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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. 
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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. 
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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.
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November 23, 2018 6 mins
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.
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August 3, 2017 11 mins
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.
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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.
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February 10, 2016 9 mins
In this podcast we celebrate LGBT History Month and discuss the impact of Section 28.
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February 1, 2016 6 mins
In this podcast people share their stories of going to the cinema and the theatre in East London.
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January 22, 2016 5 mins
In this podcast we discuss the relevance of sport and the beginning of a new year.
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This podcast is for Disability History Month 2015. It focuses on Phoenix School, which is for children aged 3 to 18 with learning disabilities.
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November 5, 2015 6 mins
In this podcast we hear about memories of bonfire night, fireworks and Guy Fawkes effigies
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October 20, 2015 3 mins
Discussing the politics and fashions of black hair in the UK.
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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.
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August 19, 2015 7 mins
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.
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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 revolutio...
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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...
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February 17, 2015 12 mins
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?
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This episode of Eastside Stories explores the various reports of hauntings throughout the Eastend.
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