by michaeleades | Mar 27, 2014 | Blog
Poster C/O Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre & the Bloomsbury Association It’s the Bloomsbury fair, not the Bloomsbury Festival!’ Such was the reaction of one of my research participants upon our arriving at her flat with the Bloomsbury ‘Festival in a Box’...
by michaeleades | Feb 16, 2014 | Blog
Posted on February 16, 2014 by michaeleades It was ‘National Storytelling Week’ last week (1st-8th Feb). If nothing else, this meant that there was a welcome focus in the national press on the therapeutic and social importance on the act of storytelling, and on what...
by michaeleades | Jan 21, 2014 | Blog
Posted on January 21, 2014 by michaeleades One of my favourite Christmas gifts this year was a copy of Barry Miles’s book London Calling: a countercultural history of London since 1945. It’s a very good book to read on the tube—whilst squashed up in communal but often...
by michaeleades | Dec 13, 2013 | Blog
Posted on December 13, 2013 by michaeleades Dementia has been in the news in a big way over the past week. Tuesday saw the first ever G8 Dementia Summit opening in London with a headline grabbing promise from David Cameron to double funding for dementia research by...
by michaeleades | Nov 16, 2013 | Blog
Posted on November 6, 2013 by michaeleades The First Box: Earlier this week a plain, slightly damp cardboard box was delivered to my office. Whilst hardly looking like anything to get excited about, I knew that this was in fact a very important package indeed. It was...
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