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Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
For commemorating genocides and marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 in Cambridge, there will be a series of educational events for schools and colleges working in partnership with Michael Rosen, our 'poet in residence' at HistoryWorks. Our civic event for the City of Cambridge is ... » more
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The Story of the Eagle Foundry & Headly Engineering Works & Coprolite Mining talk by Helen Weinstein
THE STORY OF THE HEADLY FOUNDRY & ENGINEERING WORKS Please come along to an llustrated talk by Professor Helen Weinstein, as the community historian for the Ironworks in Cambridge Date: Monday 14th November Time: 7.30pm Location: Pye Building, Cambridge Museum of Technology Duration: 45/50 mins with 10/15 mins ... » more
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History Tour for Community around IronWorks
Helen Weinstein, Director of HistoryWorks in her role as Community Historian for IronWorks, will lead a history walking tour of the area known in the Victorian era as 'Sturton Town' located in CB1 Cambridge. Time and date: 2pm Sunday 4th December 2022 Location and meeting point: ... » more
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Refugee Week
VOICES OF HOPE AND HEALING BY MICHAEL ROSEN ‘Voices of Hope & Healing’ is a Poetry and Song Concert on Sunday June 26th in Cambridge which is free and unticketed and ALL are invited to come along ton show & share empathy and support for refugees & ... » more
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Refugee Fundraising
Refugee Fundraisers. Helen Weinstein, Director of HistoryWorks, is fundraising for the Refugee Hardship Fund in Cambridge and encouraging others to do so too! First events will be a Street Party fundraiser over the weekend of Saturday 30th/Sunday 31st October, followed by a Mill ... » more
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Blue Plaque Exhibitions
Helen Weinstein is producing a blue plaque exhibition in partnership with Residents and Businesses to display he census information from 1891 in their windows of Victorian homes and former shops and brewhouses on Ainsworth, Hooper, Kingston, Sturton and Sleaford Streets, telling the stories of working ... » more
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How To Guide For Researching House History in the Archives
Sunday 28th March, 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm. Free tickets for Online Zoom illustrated talk by Helen Weinstein, Public Historian and Director of HistoryWorks. BookYour Free Place for Zoom Talk via Eventbrite: https://historyworksatcambridgefestival.eventbrite.co.uk In this illustrated talk Helen Weinstein, Public Historian & Director of HistoryWorks, will be introducing a wide range of local history ... » more
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Creating My Cambridge
'Creating My Cambridge' is a public art project designed and delivered by Historyworks to share historical sources about Cambridge's people and places, past and present. It uses histories to inspire creativity and cultures of belonging. The aim is to give voice to school pupils, singers, musicians, ... » more
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Cambridge WW2 Commemoration
Between Spring and Autumn 2020, we've been marking 75 years since the end of World War Two with VE Day Commemorations. HistoryWorks has produced a short film to share because due to the Covid restrictions all talks & history tours have had to be ... » more
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Victorian Cambridge & the Building of Sturton Town
Film produced by HistoryWorks called ‘Sturton Town in Victorian Times’ Helen Weinstein has been researching the story of the area known as 'Sturton Town' and has recently made a film for sharing at the 'Open Cambridge Online Festival'. The film shows how an entire community ... » more
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Cambridge Civic Event for HMD 2020
Helen Weinstein is the Artistic Director commissioned by Cambridge City Council for the marking of Holocaust Memorial Day in Cambridge with an ambitous education programme for schools to engage young people in the history of genocides in the past and fighting for equality and against ... » more
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Chisholm Trail Mural
Celebrating the Opening of the Chisholm Trail Mural in Abbey Everyone in Cambridge is invited to celebrate with us for the opening event of the Chisholm Trail Mural on Newmarket Road running alongside the Leper Chapel side and Barnwell Lake side of the Road. Artistic ... » more
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Chisholm Trail Tales
HistoryWorks is pleased to be leading a fantastic public history and arts engagement project in east cambridgeshire, in and around the Leper Chapel following the route of the new cycle and pedestrain pathway called the Chisholm Trail. Commissioned in 2019 by GCP (Greater Cambridge Partnership) ... » more
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IronWorks in Cambridge
Helen Weinstein is thrilled to be appointed as the Community Historian for the IronWorks project in Cambridge. This is an important heritage site which is called the IronWorks because it was once a Victorian foundry, important to the development of Cambridge, which was called the ... » more
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ArcSoc Pavilion
ArcSoc Pavilion is the Unversity of Cambridge Architecture's live-build project team which designs and produces an annual build for community events and public spaces. The ArcSoc Summer Show features a partnership project with Historyworks in 2019. . To find out more about the design ... » more
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Cambridge's Holocaust Memorial Day Programme
Historyworks is designing the programme and managing Cambridge's Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Ceremony and a programme of satellite events which include screenings, panel discussions, poetry and music. This programme will be delivered on behalf of Cambridge City Council for 2018-2022. We very much welcome old ... » more
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HMD 2019 & FAITH GROUP COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Historyworks will be organizing the civic event for Cambridge to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January 2019 and providing an accompanying series of educational workshops in schools and events for the public. We are very pleased to know that 'Torn from Home' is ... » more
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World War One at Home
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
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WW1 Walking Trail
‘Experiencing The Great War: York in World War One’ is a walking tour around historic York which explores a series of locations within the ancient city walls and the stories they can tell us about York and the people who lived there during the Great ... » more
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Michael Rosen Events with Historyworks
Michael Rosen continues his fantastic partnership on our Public Art and Public History projects, co-creating events and composing poems and songs with themes devised by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. We are having a wonderful two years for the first series of 'History ... » more
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Madonnas & Miracles - Fitzwilliam Museum Films
Historyworks were delighted to be commissioned to make a series of short films to accompany the exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge called 'Madonnas & Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy". In conversation with the curators and the academic team we decided to produce ... » more
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Sing for your School
On Thursday 2nd March Cambridgeshire Music will be hosting their 'Sing for Your School' Celebration Event at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, where all 8 prize-winners from the Sing for Your School competition will be invited, to come together in a celebration of lyric writing, composition, ... » more
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Stuarts Online - films & website
Historyworks was commissioned by the AHRC funded project called STUARTS-ONLINE to make 27 films & the project website in collaboration with the academic team. Together we planned closely to film original seventeenth-century sources in stills and use these to illustrate a variety of media products ... » more
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York Art Gallery Film - opening of new Ceramics Centre
Historyworks was thrilled to be commissioned by the York Art Gallery and the Anthony Shaw collection to film a unique collection of twentieth century ceramics in a domestic dwelling in a Chelsea Mews, and to make a film telling the story of the collector, Anthony ... » more
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Historians & Brexit: Debating the Past around #Brexit
Debating the Past post-Brexit is at the planning stage for a debate organized by Historyworks for 2018, where we plan to have a range of historian 'expert' witnesses to reflect about the nature of the historians' debate over Brexit during the past three years. The resources ... » more
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Historyworks Director gives keynote at My Cambridge at the Cambridge Junction
Helen Weinstein, Creative Director Historyworks was delighted to be invited to give a keynote presentation and for the Historyworks team to network at the inaugural "My Cambridge" Marketplace, which took place at the Cambridge Junction on the evening of Monday 12th September and provided a fantastic opportunity to showcase ... » more
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Bluetooth Beacon Launch
Ever wondered what is behind the railings on Riverside with the impressive brick edifice to Victorian sewage and sanitation beneath the imposing Victorian chimney on Riverside? If yes, then come along for activities for a *new* history trail which will be freely available and launched ... » more
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Leap - Making Music and Marvellous Machines
This is a project designed by Historyworks to complement and extend the work started in the Abbey area, because it is funded by the Arts Council England (administered by the Norwich and Norfolk Festival Bridge) and local company of international stature on the Newmarket Road, ... » more
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Maker Challenge - Films/Photos at Cambridge Makespace
Helen Weinstein joined the 'Maker Challenge' in which we teamed up to offer solutions to Cambridge's "sticky" problems. The project was hosted by Cambridge Makespace and organized by a Cambridge arts/tech agency called 'Collusion' founded by Rachel Drury and Simon Poulter, which puts together ... » more
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Reports on Projects - Directed by Helen Weinstein
REPORTS ON PROJECTS – DIRECTED BY HELEN WEINSTEIN These web pages bring together reports on projects that Helen Weinstein has directed or supported. Helen is often asked for copies of these reports by colleagues working in the fields of public history in academia, in ... » more
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York Jewish History Walk: Community and Identity Through the Centuries
WALK TO MARK HMD - FREE - DONATIONS WILL BE COLLECTED FOR YORK FLOOD APPEAL Please join Professor Helen Weinstein (Director, HistoryWorks) and John Oxley (City Archaeologist, York City Council) and Dr Jeremy Ashbee (Head Historic Properties Curator, English Heritage) and Ben Rich (Chair, York Jewish Liberal ... » more
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MAKING WOMEN VISIBLE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nn7cy#play Do women deserve better public recognition for their achievements? With only two women featuring for creativity in the pages of the new UK passport, does it matter? With public historian professor Helen Weinstein and artist Terri Bell-Halliwell, a campaigner for more statues of women across ... » more
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Clicking to Connectivity
Clicking to Connectivity means that our website pages here are a bit crazy whilst we code the project. Do join us in this experiment which will be launched on Thursday, 29th October as part of the Festival of Ideas in Cambridge. Our partners at Great ... » more
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Cambridge History Festival
It is the inaugural year in 2015 of the Cambridge History Festival at the Museum of Cambridge from 25th February to 8th March inclusive. Historyworks is kicking off the programme with the wonderful author, Greg Jenner, chief nerd at CBBC's Horrible Histories talking at Heffers ... » more
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York Castle Project. Understanding Clifford's Tower in Context
Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks are currently advising English Heritage about the public understanding of the history of York Castle - including the Tower and the wider precinct of the Castle complex and more recent prison precinct - to devise and deliver ... » more
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Singing History: Lions of the Fitzwilliam Museum - Michael Rosen Poem & Songs
Michael Rosen kindly composed a new poem called "The Listening Lions" recently commissioned by Historyworks to tell the story about the stone lions which recline above the steps of The Fitzwilliam Museum. To launch the "Singing History" project we've commissioned a range of songs about ... » more
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The Making of Stained Glass
Historyworks has been commissioned to make a film that shows the materials and methods used for making stained glass from medieval times to now, a project which had been started several years ago by a previous media and curatorial team, which was now needing fresh ... » more
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A History Manifesto
BBC Debates 'History Manifesto' on occasion of Cambridge University Press publishing their first Open Access and *free* book- fittingly kicking off with 'The History Manifesto' by Jo Guldi & David Armitage. You can download 'The History Manifesto' here: http://historymanifesto.cambridge.org/ How should historians speak truth to power ... » more
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Historyworks Shop
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
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Elizabethan Pageant
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
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Media Archive of WW1 Commemoration
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
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Cycle of Songs: News
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
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Cambridge History Stories
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
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BBC Debate: Was Britain right to go to war in 1914?
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
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Laurence Sterne 1713-2013
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
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PRODUCING APPS & AUDIO GUIDES
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
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EXPLAINING CROWD-SOURCING: EXPLOITATION TO PARTICIPATION
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
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MISOGYNY DEBATE: PRESS & MEDIA REPRESENTATION
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
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PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES
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
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History Curriculum Debate Updates: SCHAMA AT HAY plus SCHAMA on BBC R3 NIGHTWAVES & BBC R4 MORAL MAZE TRANSCRIPTIONS
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
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THE FUTURE OF THE PAST AT THE BBC
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
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HISTORICAL WOMEN ON OUR £ NOTES CAMPAIGN
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
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TWR: The Womens Room Launch
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
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PHoSTEM: Project with The Science Museum on "Public History of Science, Technology, Engineering & Medicine"
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
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OLIVER STONE & PETER KUZNICK DISCUSS 'UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES'
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
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Editing BBC Radio4 Noise A Human History
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
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DOMINIC SANDBROOK ON THATCHER'S LEGACY & POPULAR HISTORY
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
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Facilitating Bodleian Library Project
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
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WW1 Features
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
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Eurotast top up training
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
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YORK HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
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
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BBC RADIO FEATURE
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
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YORK JEWISH HISTORY TRAIL
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
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PILOT THEATRE
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
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EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL SYNERGY GRANT
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
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HISTORYWORKS TRAINS STUDENT IN SOUND TECHNOLOGY
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
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HISTORYWORKS MARIE CURIE FUNDING
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
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DAN SNOW LAUNCHES IPAD APPS
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
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HISTORYWORKS PRESENTATION ON APPS
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
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SOUND INSTALLATION CONCERT
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
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TRAIL PROMOTION
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
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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH JOHN OXLEY
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
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RECORDING APPS & PODCASTS
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
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HISTORYWORKS GIVES VOICE-COACHING TO RESEARCHERS
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
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STORYTELLING TRAINING
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
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Intern opportunity
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
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THE TRAIL TEAM
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
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Historyworks Training for EU Research Team
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
