Bishopsgate Institute Podcasts, May - July 2010

London: The Story of a Great City
Speaker: Jerry White
3 June 2010

Fire, plague, riot, civil war, mass bombing - Jerry White discusses the dramatic history of London.


Dreamers of a New Day - Women who invented the Twentieth Century
Speaker: Sheila Rowbotham
8 June 2010

Sheila Rowbotham explores the profound social awakening among women from the 1880s to the 1920s.

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Speaker: Jonathan Rose
Thursday 1 July

A history of the people who were not expected to think for themselves - the British working classes.


London Recorded by Camera
Speaker: Stefan Dickers, Bishopsgate Institute's Library Manager
6 July 2010

A lively introduction to the photographic collections held by Bishopsgate Institute.