Tag: Diversity week AudioVanishing for the Vote: diverse suffragettes boycott the 1911 censusFriday 6 March 2015Vanishing for the Vote tells the story of what happened on census night, 2...AudioBlack Poppies: Britain’s black community and the Great WarThursday 22 January 2015Stephen Bourne talks about his latest book, Black Poppies, published by The History Press...AudioHe is so silly he would rather have a half pence than a shilling: Discovering the history of learning disabilityFriday 7 March 2014Simon Jarrett explores the fascinating and little-known world of the history of people with...AudioFrom deviance to diversity? Finding sexuality and sexual science in the archivesMonday 17 February 2014Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist at the Wellcome Library, examines sources at the Wellcome...AudioDigitising MH 47 the Middlesex military service appeal tribunalTuesday 11 February 2014On the introduction of conscription in 1916, Military Service Tribunals were set up to...AudioBlack in the British FrameMonday 10 February 2014Stephen Bourne shares his memories of growing up in Peckham and of his adopted...AudioUgandan Asians in Britain: Journeys across three continents to find a homeMonday 7 January 2013It is 40 years since Idi Amin arbitrarily decided to expel over 70,000 Asians...AudioThe scandalous case of John Vassall: sexuality, spying and the Civil ServiceMonday 17 December 2012Fifty years ago civil servant John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for...AudioThe strange journey of Edward Swarthye, an African in Elizabethan England: from the Spanish Caribbean to rural GloucestershireFriday 7 December 2012In 1597, an African man named ‘Edward Swarthye, alias negro’ appeared before an English...AudioAnxiety, dread and disease: British ports 1834-1870Friday 13 January 2012As Britain’s status as the ‘workshop of the world’ grew, so did the new...AudioSovereign, squire and rebel: Maharajah Duleep Singh and the heirs of a lost kingdomFriday 13 January 2012At the age of five years, Duleep Singh found himself on the golden throne...AudioWhen a woman is not a woman: how the Ministry of Pensions constructed gender in the 1950sFriday 13 January 2012During the 1950s, the Ministry of Pensions was suddenly faced with a substantial number... 1 2 »