Our projects

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Producing Cambridge's Holocaust Memorial Day programme - Events & Resources

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 …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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? …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Creating My Cambridge

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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. …

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 …

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, …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Eurotast training

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 …