{"title": "Photographing the Calder Valley: or social history at the 'mouth of hell'", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T19:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/social-history"], "description": "A public lecture asking how historians can write the social history of small post-industrial towns like Halifax in the Calder Valley. Matthew Hilton, Professor of Social History at Queen Mary University of London, uses photographs by Bill Brandt, John Bulmer, Martin Parr, Nick Danziger and local photographer Alice Longstaff to look beneath the smog of these 'Lowryscapes'. 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The show features camera clubs, magazines, photobooks, advertising, manuals, comics and toys, celebrating the creativity and distinctive perspectives of generations of young photographers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/snap-happy-how-children-became-photographers-39557/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/73d74101f25e31c037d37423b7c81b7589d583b66199825f6657e1ebf4239d12-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Exploring History through Creativity", "start": "2026-11-10T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Poplar Union", "address": "Cotall Street 2, E14 6TL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/london"], "description": "Free creative sessions exploring East End history through collage, photography, movement, singing, soundscapes and performance. They are facilitated by Tasnim Siddiqa Amin, a working-class Bangladeshi-British artist, theatremaker and activist from Poplar. 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Curated by Hadrian Garrard, Linsey Young and Tayyabah Tahir, it also considers the role that money and class have played in access to these spaces and in imagining new ways of living.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/earthly-paradise-radical-living-in-the-uk-42812/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4606a47388641a9b47a51a7aac5b10ca924738564d500267f04b92c99fd67335-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Re-sounding the East End", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Idea Store", "address": "Churchill Place 2, E14 5RB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sound-art", "history/local-history"], "description": "An evening discussion about the three sound art installations 'Everything is different, nothing has changed', set in the context of the East End's social and public history. It is led by curators and historians Nadia Valman, Tamsin Bookey, Rehana Ahmed and Alan Dein. 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The photos were repackaged and catalogued as part of a recent Museum Fundamentals project, some seen for the first time since they were taken. A 2027 calendar featuring some of the images, marking next year's 150th anniversary of St John Ambulance, will be available to purchase after the talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/talk-and-tea-first-aid-on-camera-untold-stories-in-unseen-ph-37225/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/77ac7ec3c7cedcaab8ad7dcf47c24690516306fad109e88be5c987d4cdf2848c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art Book Club", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "place": "Museum of Croydon", "address": "Braithwaite Hall, Croydon Town Hall, Katharine Street, CR9 1ET", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature/book-club"], "description": "Art Book Club is a relaxed, friendly monthly discussion of an art-related book, held in the Clocktower Café. 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