WCL10: Florence Working-Class Literature Fest...

Teaser extract of our latest Fireside Chat podcast available exclusively for our Patreon supporters in which we sit down for a bit of a chat about the year past, for WCH and the world, and plans we have for the year ahead.We discuss a year of the podcast, sick leave, full kit wan ...  Show more

This is a teaser preview of one of our Radical Reads episodes, made exclusively for our supporters on patreon. You can listen to the full 67-minute episode without ads ...  Show more

It’s one of the most iconic battles of the war and it’s a salivating prospect to have two master historians discussing a subject they have both written about and know intimately well. John McManus and Peter Caddick-Adams band together to delivery this scintillating festival talk ...  Show more

2020. Partout dans le monde, des manifestants déboulonnent des statues d’anciens colons et esclavagistes. Des millions d'hommes et de femmes marchent contre les violences policières. Le passé ne passe pas. Les inégalités et la colère héritées de l'esclavage sont encore vivaces en ...  Show more

What is the difference between being an artist and an entertainer? What are the nuances of conveying humour and comedy through art? In this conversation, multi-creative Raed Yassin gives us his take. From growing up in Beirut during the civil war and how this has impacted his ...

In early 18th century Venice, the Ospedale della Pietà took in abandoned baby girls through a tiny gap in the wall.  In addition to ensuring the girls’ survival, the orphanage employed one of the world’s greatest ever composers - Antonio Vivaldi - to train the girls in mu ...