Historyworks now has a shop premises in central Cambridge where we design public engagement projects, host community history events, coach researchers and practitioners to translate their research for lay audiences, conduct training and make podcasts and short films, build websites for heritage institutions, fix macs ... » more
Cambridge Elizabethan Concert & Pageant Film Historyworks was commissioned by Great St Mary's, University of Cambridge, to capture the Elizabethan Pageant and Procession. Also, a Service of Evensong at King's College Chapel on the occasion of the visit of Queen Elizabeth I which occurred 450 ... » more
2014 marks the centenary of the First World War and a programme of events that will commemorate the conflict. Historyworks are attempting to capture the debate about how we should commemorate the centenary until August 5th 2014: see sections of blogs, pieces published by journalists ... » more
The BBC has been developing a collection of stories to demonstrate how WW1 affected people and places in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The strategic aim is to connect the audience to this past viscerally by bringing home how the global war was experienced ... » more
Cycle of Songs is an Arts Council England funded project commissioned by Cambridge City Council, devised by the award winning Pilot Theatre and Historyworks to mark the Tour de France visit to Cambridge on 7 July 2014. This project will showcase and celebrate the talent and ... » more
For Cycle of Songs nine songs and sound poems are being devised and shaped by Helen Weinstein, the Creative Director and Producer, who has commissioned pieces from a wide range of composers and poets on behalf of Cycle of Songs, working alongside colleagues at Historyworks and partners ... » more
Helen Weinstein Chaired this Online debate on BBC on Friday 28th February - which started at 8pm, continued during the BBC2 programme that was transmited from 9pm until 10.30pm and for the debate with Niall Ferguson following on BBC Radio5 Live between 10.30pm and 11.30pm, as the debate followed the issues ... » more
To mark the 300th Anniversary of Laurence Sterne's birth, HISTORYWORKS has made an installation, filmed on location at Shandy Hall where Laurence Sterne lived and wrote eloquent prose, publishing amongst other works, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. 9 Readings have been chosen ... » more
PRODUCING APPS & AUDIO GUIDES: We welcome enquiries about producing Trails and Apps. At Historyworks, we are developing new apps for several organizations in locations across the UK. Indeed, Historyworks has built several apps already with a series of history trails, - delivered as audio guides, ... » more
by Pat Hadley In 1832 philanthropic publisher Charles Knight exalted working-class readers of his Penny Magazine to visit and appreciate the British Museum: “[H]ere there is nothing to pay. Knock boldly at the gate; the porter will open it … Go on. Do not fear ... » more
From Jane Austen on banknotes to Twitter abuse: a roundup of the debates in blogs, newspapers, radio and television. On the 24th July 2013 the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced that an image of Jane Austen would be printed on the ... » more
PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES Helen Weinstein has been working with partners in the Arts & Heritage sectors to better understand what ‘public participation’ means in the everyday world, how audiences for arts and culture, history and archaeology can continue to be diversified and be fully participatory, within ... » more
SIMON SCHAMA spoke at the Hay Festival #Hay13 and slammed Gove's reforms to the history curriculum as "1066 & All That without the jokes". It was a call to arms for history teachers to confront Gove's "insulting and offensive" attitude over the draft history curriculum ... » more
THE FUTURE OF THE PAST AT THE BBC - Wednesday May 15th from 5pm to 7pm & the hashtag for the event will be #bbcpast THE EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY THE PUBLIC & POPULAR HISTORY SEMINAR, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE All Welcome! please do join in ... » more
Helen Weinstein has been supporting Caroline Craido-Perez co-founder @TheWomensRoomUk for the media campaign directed @TheBankofEngland regarding historical women on our stirling bank notes. This profile-raising and public conversation has helped gather over 20,000 signatures for the petition. Hurrah! This petition is in response to the ... » more
THE WOMEN'S ROOM celebrates their official launch! Historyworks is supporting TWR & the launch. We recorded the speakers and made podcasts, we also captured the event with stills photography, and we've made an archive of the tweets via Storify. See below to find links. Please ... » more
Historyworks has created a STORIFY of recent PHoSTEM events, and assisted with writing up the PHoSTEM reports. See below. This project aims to understand how to increase and improve public engagement with the history of science. Helen Weinstein is involved in the project via the ... » more
The event with Oliver Stone was about his latest history epic called "Untold History of the United States" released as a book, a dvd, and soon to hit UK screens for those who have access to Sky! Stone has an illustrious and controversial career as ... » more
Historyworks has been involved in one of BBC Radio 4's most ambitious projects yet: telling the story of 100,000 years of human history through the role of sound! The series is called "Noise: A Human History". The series will be played out on Radio 4 ... » more
Dominic Sandbrook is a writer and historian and broadcaster, author of popular histories of post-1945 Britain, Seasons in the Sun (2012); State of Emergency (2010); White Heat (2006); & Never Had it So Good (2005). DOMINIC SANDBROOK REFLECTS ON THATCHER'S LEGACY: see bbc.in/14TF69J Dominic has navigated a tricky ... » more
Integrating Broadside Ballads (IBBA) The Bodleian Library team for Broadside Ballad Connections had a great time at Cecil Sharp House for Broadside Day. The brief for Helen Weinstein was to facilitate a pathway to impact, and be there to launch the new project funded ... » more
A day of sleuthing and scoping to find untold stories to illustrate domestic experiences of World War 1. The "No Manifestation of Feeling" notice is a stark reminder of the impersonal treatment of conscientious objectors in the Great War. SYNOPSIS: A SERIES THAT BRINGS TO ... » more
Prior to her fieldtrip to St. Maarten for the Eurotast research project, Postdoc Temi Odumosu has been honing her location recording and interview skills by taking advantage of some top up training in the studio with Jon Calver. EUROTAST is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network ... » more
Many thanks to everyone who joined in the commemorations for Holocaust Memorial Day. We were amazed at the vast crowds who came along on the history trails, almost two hundred, photographed here within Clifford's Tower, listening to Helen Weinstein talk about the 1190 massacre of ... » more
Helen Weinstein had an excellent experience making a radio feature with BBC Radio's Jonathan Cowap, to be broadcast on Holocaust Memorial day, 27th January. The English Heritage staff were really helpful and took this great picture of our recording inside the huge stone walls, which ... » more
Helen Weinstein is offering a walking tour on Sunday 27th January to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, starting at 2pm from the steps of the Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens, YO1 7FR. Ends at 3.30pm at Clifford's Tower, opened by English Heritage staff until 4.30pm for those ... » more
Jon Calver of Historyworks in conversation with Liam Evans-Ford about how best to develop a series of radio dramas on the subject of the Great War. This may develop the Historyworks podcasts and the app which you can find here: historyworks.tv/projects/apps/experiencing_the_great_war_york_in_world_war_one/ » more
Historyworks plans to train academics to present their work with a variety of outreach and media dissemination activities for an important European project for Medieval Studies in Central and South-East Europe. Historyworks is assisting with this ERC grant by providing the media training and ... » more
Historyworks has offered training in sound engineering to Joe Muller, which has involved learning to record and edit sound, set up a sound installation on location, help run outside broadcast sound unit, and culminated in trailing the sound engineers for BBC Radio 4’s “Cabin Pressure”. » more
Historyworks has collaborated with a Marie Curie International Training Network led by the University of Iceland for a medieval literature project including University departments in Norway, Denmark, Holland, and UK called “ Constructing the Past: Creating the Present”. Historyworks will coach the project members in ... » more
After several months of Historyworks’ interns learning about ipad apps by researching and sleuthing and drafting and checking materials for Battle Castles, there is the satisfaction of seeing this all come to fruition with the launch of the app, accompanying the Discovery Channel’s series of ... » more
Joe Muller, Historyworks intern (working with Jon and Helen) has researched the main platforms and choices for heritage apps, reviewing the capacities of content and technology available for UK users. In the photograph, Joe is presenting his findings to a meeting of York’s heritage sector. ... » more
Historyworks has been commissioned to make a sound installation for an exciting audio event at York's Guildhall. A new sound piece will be performed in the Council Chamber, the first time there has ever been a contemporary art commission in this space. This is part ... » more
Once the York trail leaflets, podcasts and apps were ready for launch, BBC Radio York featured the Roman and Great War Trails. See Adam Gutteridge, IPUP Research Fellow, outside the BBC office. Adam was a terrific communicator and advocate for understanding what daily life was ... » more
Helen Weinstein and Jon Calver have greatly enjoyed working with the City Archaeologist, John Oxley. It has involved coaching Jon for delivering scripts and in turn he has generously shared his expertise with the Media team at Historyworks and the Researchers and Interns. We have ... » more
It was decided by Adam Gutteridge and his interns working on the Roman Trail, that the best way for the daily lives of the dwellers of Eboracum to speak to present day audiences, was through composite figures from Roman times, such as the potter and ... » more
Historyworks is recording the scripts for two trail Apps and two Podcasts for the York Museums Trust. "Walking with the Romans: Daily Life in Eboracum" and "Experiencing the Great War: York in World War One" go live on Sunday 26th August. Go to the historyworks ... » more
The team at Historyworks showed the researchers how best to adapt their scripts for different formats, from printed script to podcast to app. There is a lot of editing and polishing involved to get the fit right for the intended audience. Academic writing holds onto ... » more
Historyworks is looking for keen history interns needed for an exciting new multi-media project working in partnership with a London production company called Ballista Media. We want a number of history interns to work on history apps for the iPad and other mobile devices following ... » more
Historyworks has worked with a diverse group of University researchers in several academic disciplines to help them translate their research skills and show how best to tell the story of how lives were lived in York in previous centuries. Archives have been mined and archaeologists ... » more
Historyworks is providing intensive training for members of the team who are documenting their research on the transatlantic slave trade, called Eurotast. Researchers are receiving training in interview techniques, recording and editing audio to make podcasts, and stills photography to illustrate presentations and websites. There ... » more