Projects

Grow Your Own is sharing learning from community action childcare initiatives and campaigns from the past to the present.

The Cassel Hospital is the only therapeutic community in the UK where in-patient treatment is free and voluntary (NHS funded). Help us to disseminate a radical mental health model that supports traumatised people to rebuild their lives and relationships.

Radical histories… Soul journeys… Time Travel… Night Creatures… Literary titans. Find it in this Audio Trail commissioned by the only surviving Elizabethan Church in London.

A project led by the Freewheelers Media and Theatre Company, photographer Emma Brown and Alana Harris of Kings college London.

Weavers Adventure Playground Oral History Project collected recordings about the playground's history, its radical vision of children’s play and impact on the local community.

On the Record is producing a map of radical bookshops and curated Quiet Revolutions: a celebration of radical bookshops past and present at the Barbican in November 2022.

5 Cally Road is an oral history project exploring and celebrating the history of one of London’s important radical spaces.

The Texture of Air was a public art commission from University College London Hospitals. It culminated in an oral history artwork which won the international sound arts prize "Sound Walk September" and a series of sculptures visible at 47-49 Huntley Street, Fitzrovia.

Writing and Reading Newham recorded an oral history of Newham Bookshop and collected stories of reading and writing in Newham.

An oral history archive, exhibition and podcast recording the history of a unique parent-led co-operative nursery and drop-in.

Fighting SUS was a youth-led oral history project which investigated the history of the sus law and its legacy, through oral histories and archival research. The young people’s creative responses to the histories they gathered were presented in the form of a performance, a film and an illustrated book.

Holding the Baby is an oral history of childcare and parenting, a podcast series and a travelling, sound-based exhibition.

Memories Kitchen was a series of reminiscence sessions and community feasts inspired by Lambeth residents’ childhood food stories.

This project recorded the history of a unique cultural institution called Centerprise (1971-2012), and created a website and mobile app, a book, contributed to exhibitions, ran many free events and workshops and produced learning resources inspired by the place and its people.

Arming all Sides conducted research into the arms trade before, during and after the First World War. The project - a collaboration with Campaign Against Arms Trade - aimed to make a critical intervention into the First World War Centenary commemorations.

Sounds from the Park explored the history and traditions of Britain’s last great open air oratory site; Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London.