History events, archives and libraries are shutting down across the country. As so many of us will be self-isolating there will be time for more reading, thinking and writing. So why not have a look at my History & Social Action Publications list and order some items.
https://sites.google.com/site/historysocialaction
Black Cultural Archives Closes But Needs Support
BCA took the decision to close from 6pm on Wednesday. The staff will be working from home and can be contacted via email, social media and by telephone on 0203 757 8500. It has have ‘a lot of exciting projects planned for 2020, so over the closure period we plan to reveal details via our newsletter, social networks and website. You can use our online archives on Google’s Arts and Culture’s website.
BCA is a charity and depends on donations to create and maintain its work. ‘If you can, please consider making a donation to ensure that we can keep up our work during the closure of our building. Please share our JustGiving page and consider supporting us with a donation however big or small.’
Working Class Movement Library
The Library in Salford is also closed, but it will be working to keep us engaged with its collections by different online means – keep an eye on its e-bulletin, you can sign up for at www.wcml.org.uk/enewsletters).Its latest newsletter Shelf Life is here:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wcmlibrary.
Annual subscriptions are now due. There are a number of ways to pay, good old fashioned cheques are still welcome, payment via online banking also available, just contact us to be provided with the details you require and of course the setting up of a standing order is easy to arrange.
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust
The Manchester based Trust is also closed, but some of its archives are available digitally, and can be seen at: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/Manchester~23~23
British Library Online Resources Remain Open
While its Reading Rooms and public spaces are now closed, the British Library is continuing to offer as many online services as it possibly can. You can continue to view and explore the online collection.
Amanda Aldridge – Montagu Ring
Singer Patricia Hammond has made a video telling the story of Amanda Aldridge, the British African-American/Swedish composer, daughter of Ira Aldridge (1866-1956), who wrote under the name Montague Ring.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Guk9WGvXGA&feature=youtu.be
She Wrote the Songs
This book celebrating the stories of some of the most successful women songwriters of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. With a 34 track CD featuring singer Patricia Hammond pianist Andrea Kmecova and a guest appearance by Rupert Gillett on the cello. To be published by Valley Press in late summer. Hear a sample: https://youtu.be/bk54-Ivzjqk
Ira Aldridge Plaque Unveiling in Coventry 2017
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9R9sA9DNCA
Paul Robeson
- Five Songs 30 March to 3 April on BB3
Every day Monday 30 March thrugh to Friday 3 April BBC Radio 3 will feature five songs of Paul Robeson at 22.45pm, including Tayo Aluko exploring the pain, confusion and anger that erupted in Paul Robeson’s 1949 Moscow performance of Zog Nit Keynmol, the song of the Jewish Partisans.
https://www.bbc.com/programmes/m000gt4l/broadcasts/upcoming
- Robeson discusses Othello 1943
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DF7YQrC7HM
- Paul Robeson Testimony at House Committee on Un-American Activities 1956
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhnCrHZkgNk
- Paul Robeson and the Welsh Miners
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c
Slavery and Abolition Articles on the web
Nicholas Crawford on Plantation Provisioning and the Politics of Health in the British Caribbean
The 1619 Project – Slavery and the American Revolution: A Historical Dialogue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLm8dMAqxE
“The Tardy Triumphs of a Cautious Policy”: Saint-Domingue and Imperial Reform in British Abolitionist Discourse
Domestic Slavery in Renaissance Italy
www.academia.edu/217551/Domestic_Slavery_in_Renaissance_Italy
“Slavery and the Evangelical Enlightenment”
www.academia.edu/688391/_Slavery_and_the_Evangelical_Enlightenment
Slavery, freedom, and the law in the Atlantic world
www.academia.edu/1342090/Slavery_freedom_and_the_law_in_the_Atlantic_world
Anti-Slavery Rhetoric in English Poetry from 1780 to 1865
www.academia.edu/31322691/Anti-Slavery_Rhetoric_in_English_Poetry_from_1780_to_1865
A Radical Change of Heart: Robert Wedderburn’s Last Word on Slavery (Ryan Hanley)
www.academia.edu/21515521/A_Radical_Change_of_Heart_Robert_Wedderburns_Last_Word_on_Slavery
The English Revolution and the Atlantic Origins of Abolition
Royal Navy sailors were appalled by conditions on slave ships, but those they ‘rescued’ rarely experienced true freedom
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