Who Came Before

In today's episode, Lauren Barnes tells us about sufferagist Florence Beaumont. The blog post mentioned can be found her. A partial transcript can be found here.

A partial transcript can be found here. In today's episode, Ben Walton tells us the history of education in Horbury.   

In today's episode, Tom Eastwood tells us about the life of the Horbury musician William Baines.  You can find him on instagram @tom_m_eastwood To find out more about Wakefield Litfest, find us on twitter @wakeylitfest or on Instagram @wakefieldlitfest or search for us on Facebook.

In today's episode, Daisy Kennedy tells us the history of unions in the local area.  You can find Daisy's theatre company at www.mismatchtheatre.com A partial transcript can be found here.

In today's episode Jasmine Sandhar tells us about Toni Morrison, an American author, essayist, editor and professor whose work examined the experience of black Americans.    You can read an extended version of Jasmine's piece here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AITAEa5BukSRKSAnkNYeRuvFtE7JV_nrjxUblNStHj8/edit?usp=sharing     

In today's episode, Amy Winder tells us about Andrew Wiles and how he solved the centuries old mathematical puzzle of Fermat's Last Theorem.    To find out more about Wakefield Litfest, find us on twitter @wakeylitfest or on Instagram @wakefieldlitfest or search for us on Facebook.

In today's episode, musician Isaac Boothman tells us the history of the union song Bread and Roses.    To find out more about Wakefield Litfest, find us on twitter @wakeylitfest or on Instagram @wakefieldlitfest or search for us on Facebook.

Today's episode is by Toni Stephenson, and it is about Lady Catherine Milnes Gaskell of Thornes House, who was an author, philanthropist and community organiser.  You can find out more about Dream Time Creative at http://dreamtimecreative.org    To find out more about Wakefield Litfest, find us on twitter @wakeylitfest or on Instagram @wakefieldlitfest or search for us on Facebook.

Our first episode is about Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who overcame racist and sexist barriers to help put the first NASA astronauts into space. Each episode in the series has been written and performed by a different creative, and today's episode is by Lucy Crawshaw. To find out more about Wakefield Litfest, find us on twitter @wakeylitfest or on Instagram @wakefieldlitfest or search for us on Facebook.