29 June.Amended re-Battersea walks 2, 9 & 11 July
To 29 August. The Windrush Caribbean Film Festival #WCFF2021
Explore Windrush Arts, online, on-demand with a special focus on Carnival Arts including Music, Mas, Costumes, Photography and more. Join us for 30+ Films, Live Screenings, Q&As, Workshops, Conversations with Artists, Masterclasses and more!
https://caribbeantales-tv.com/pages/windrush-caribbean-film-festival-2021
Wednesday 23 June. 5.15pm. The Story of Sugar and Rum: The Legacies of Family, Wealth and Power in Barbados and Britain
Tara Inniss (University of the West Indies)
Online IHR Seminar talk.
www.history.ac.uk/events/story-sugar-and-rum-legacies-family-wealth-and-power-barbados-and-britain
Thursday 24 June. 2pm. What can today’s Socialist Movement Learn from the 1970s?
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81391209242
Thursday 24 June. 5.15pm. The Mau Mau Rebellion
Niels Boender (University of Warwick), Lauren Brown (University of Dundee)
On-line IHR Seminar
www.history.ac.uk/events/mau-mau-rebellion
Friday 25 June. 11am. J M W Turner
Free on-line Croydon Library talk.
https://calat.ac.uk/j-m-w-turner-library-talk
Friday 25 June 8pm. People and Families of the Wandle Valley
Talk by Mick Taylor (Wandle Industrial Museum) for Wandsworth Historical Society
Join Zoom meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84578202352?pwd=UWdvZ0cxN3VNVjFkK09tQ1NaSlIrUT09
Meeting ID: 845 7820 2352
Passcode: 213952
Wednesday 30 June. 1.45 for 2pm. The History of Theatre in Croydon
Talk by Dee Palmer will give an illustrated talk on
Join Zoom meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86826469395?pwd=QTBUcWlodndSaVhBOXlleU1kR1pjUT09
Meeting ID: 868 2646 9395
Passcode: 997554
Fridays 2 (2.30pm) & Sunday 11 July. 11am. Twixt The Commons Walks
Stephen Midlane will lead his walk between Wandsworth and Clapham Commons for Friends of Wandsworth Common
Let us know which option you prefer by emailing
history@wandsworthcommon.org
Friday 9 July. 11am. Battersea vs The British Empire – Revolutionary Walking Tour
Including through the story of John Archer, Sharpurji Saklatvala and Charlotte Despard.
Including through the story of John Archer, Sharpurji Saklatvala and Charlotte Despard.
www.facebook.com/events/3396145077178062
Wednesday 7 July. 5:15pm. Peripheralizing the Spheres: Theatrical infrastructures and audiences of the imperial provinces
Kathleen Wilson (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
On-line IHR Seminar
Friday 9 July. Closing Date For Applications For Lecturer in Francophone Black Studies
The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at Edinburgh University is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Francophone Black Studies to diversify our existing teaching provision by offering new research-led courses. See its website.
Musical Truth
A History of Modern Black Britain in 28 Songs – at a glance
Former Wimbledon College pupil Jeffrey Boakye discussed his book Musical Truth at the Wimbledon BookFest. Back in February Boakye spoke at the College’s February Inset Day. The recording can be seen at:
www.wimbledonbookfest.org/Youth/Events/JeffreyBoakyeSchoolsEvent.aspx
Password: 3a43anb
Starts 10mins in
Published by Faber Children’s it is highly recommended for schools. A full explanation and samples of songs featured in the book are on
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/childrens-book-reviews/musical-truth
Thanks to my cousin Simon Potter, who was one of Boakye’s teachers at the College.
Further information about Boakye’s other books, journalism and teaching activities see:
Enslavement And The Black Atlantic
New Books From Duke University Press
The Jamaica Reader. History, Culture, Politics. Diana Paton and Matthew J. Smith.
Reckoning with Slavery. Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Jennifer L Morgan.
Scotland
History Scotland journal(May/June) contains the following articles:
Scotland and the art of slavery. Dr David Alston
Colonel John Gordon of Cluny: the rishest commoner’ and his West Indian estates. Neil M. Bruce
The remarkable career of Peter McLagan MP. David William Main
Reading
www.academia.edu/3651432/African_Economic_History_Special_Issue_on_Voyages_Slave_Trade_Database
www.academia.edu/37370361/N%C3%89GRITUDE_THE_ORIGIN
www.academia.edu/291160/Early_African_America_Archaeological_Studies_of_Significance_and_Diversity
Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000wvzx/statue-wars-one-summer-in-bristol
Wandsworth & Merton History
Fitzhugh Estate
Friends of Wandsworth Common recorded talk at:
Sporting History
WiSH is a new museum and centre for Wandsworth and Merton in Sporting History, for all sports, but with a special focus on football and Wimbledon
This project aims to become the hub for memorabilia and artefacts to reflect a unique 130+ year footballing history, and include other sports which have impacted on the Merton & Wandsworth areas.
To find out more and keep in touch with progress, visit the Wimbledon in Sporting History Website www.wimbledoninsportinghistory.com and www.historicaldons.com
United States History
Urban Encounters. Native Americans
History Today. July 2021
The Elaine Race Massacre of 1919
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/18/elaine-massacre-red-summer-descendants-history
Paul Robeson Graphic Biography Reviewed
https://caribbeantales-tv.com/pages/windrush-caribbean-film-festival-2021
Paul Robeson Appreciation
www.jacobinmag.com/2017/06/peekskill-riots-woody-guthrie-paul-robeson-anticommunism
Radical Singers
www.jacobinmag.com/2020/11/fbi-folk-singers-bureau-cpusa-communism-guthrie
www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/woody-guthrie-socialism-radical-kaufman
British History
Leaders of British Communism in the 1920s
https://sslh.org.uk/2021/06/22/a-new-investigation-of-the-leaders-of-british-communism-in-the-1920s
Other
Babylon Film About Black Londoners. (History Today. July 2021)
Stop Press. 17thC Government Spies (Ditto)
The Life and Work of the Rt. Hon James Griffiths
Ben Rees. Modern Welsh Publications
Minister of National Insurance under Atlee.
Living With Shakespeare. Saint Helen’s Parish, London 1593-1598. Geoffrey Marsh. Edinburgh University Press
Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth Century Scotland. The Life of Jane Cumming. Frances B. Singh.Boydell/University of Rochester Press.
The story of an Indian-Scottish woman (1795/6 – 1844), who lived in Britain from 1803. Reviewed in History Scotland. May/June.
Journey for Justice Project Launch
The recorded video of the launch of its two projects can be seen at:
The two projects and their resources can be seen at:
https://economicinjustice.org.uk
Commemorating The Empire Windrush
And Windrush Generation
22 June was Windrush Day. It was been marked in many ways.
https://photoarchive.merton.gov.uk/Windrush
https://museumofcroydon.com/windrush-day
Marc Wadsworth Tweets
‘Proud my father was one of the Windrush pioneers. Labour Black Sections dedicated Black Agenda to them. Please support a fundraising walkathon to help Jamaica’s Curphey home where dad’s buried.’
The walkathon will be at the Royal Arsenal. Woolwich.
www.justgiving.com/campaign/STEPS4VETS?invite=true
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