This one-day history festival brings London’s medieval Jewish community back to life, just steps away from the City’s original Jewish quarter. The Jewish Square Mile Foundation invites audiences of all ages to explore one of the capital’s lesser-known communities: the Jewish population that settled in the City towards the end of the 11th century and lived there for more than 200 years, until the Expulsion of 1290. A programme of expert talks, a walking tour and family activit

Very few people know there is a small Reform Jewish community in Bradford, dating back to the 1800s, when the earliest Jewish settlers arrived in the industrial town between the 1830s and 1870s. They were predominantly German woollen merchants who had travelled to Bradford because it was the centre of the wool trade. My research has also shown that Jewish people living in Bradford were born in Romania, Austria, France, Italy, Poland, and Russia, among other countries. The Bra

It is pleasing to see the impact of last year’s award winners, including, amongst many outstanding projects, the publication of Nudrat Afza’s powerful photographs of Bradford Jewry, Kehillah, which has featured at Bradford’s City of Culture celebrations, and the Historic Towns Trust map of Jewish Ipswich which is now being widely distributed. It is also pleasing to report that the JHSE oral history project, documenting those who contributed so generously to it, is ongoing wit