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Help create our exhibition
On Monday 15th December, our volunteer team will come together again to help design our exhibition: Kitchen Resistance. Since the start of 2025, the team have been conducting archive research and oral history interviews to discover how women have used food as a…
Volunteers receive oral history training
This week volunteers came together to learn oral history interviewing skills, as part of the Kitchen Resistance project by Share UK, funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund. The training was run by Rib Davis, an affiliated Oral History Society Trainer. The…
Volunteers prepare for groundbreaking new research project
Volunteers met for the first time to begin work on new research project into how women use food as resistance. The project is the first of its kind and aims to shatter the stereotypes around women’s passive role in the kitchen. The project is called Kitchen…
Our final events to celebrate women
Following our exhibition and the launch of our short film, we held two further community events to celebrate the contribution of women during pandemics. On Tuesday 5th December we held an additional screening of our short film at Big Creative Education in Walthamstow,…
Exhibition launches
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new exhibition – Beyond Medicine: a social history of women and pandemics Running from 20th June to 16th July, our exhibition sharing the stories of women in both the 1918 and 2020 pandemic will be on at The Mill…
Filming underway
Young people said they wanted to make a short film about the pandemic, so we have been working with students from The Big Creative to film interviews with some of our oral history contributors. Due to lack of archive footage around the 1918 pandemic, we will be using…