Thursday 18 November. 6-7.30pm. How Black Literature Changed Britain
Benjamin Zephaniah, Margaret Busby, Deirdre Osborne and Joseph Harker discuss authors writing today, and explore the rich Black literary tradition that precedes them and its impact on our culture. Event was produced in partnership with The British Library.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCIcUDCtbMw
Free registration: CLICK HERE
Thursday 18 November. 11.30pm &
Friday 19 November. 1am – GMT. Between the Lines: W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture online discussion with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Eric Foner, the editors of W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction
www.eventbrite.com/e/between-the-lines-web-du-bois-black-reconstruction-tickets-188475524367
Tuesday 23 November. 5.30pm. Making London historic: monuments to Empire from Waterloo Place to Trafalgar Square
Online IHR Seminar talk byDurba Ghosh (Cornell University)
www.history.ac.uk/events/making-london-historic-monuments-empire-waterloo-place-trafalgar-square
Saturday 27 November.9.30am-12.30pm. Llafur Online Event & AGM – Strikes, Lockouts and Collective Memories: Remembering 1921 and 1926To register:
Once you have registered, details of the meeting ID and password will be emailed to you.
Monday 6 December. 6-7.30pm. Co-curation and archival interventions: Reflections from an interdisciplinary project using voluntary sector records
Monday 6 December. 6-7.30pm. Co-curation and archival interventions: Reflections from an interdisciplinary project using voluntary sector records
Georgina Brewis (UCL Institute of Education) and Angela Ellis Paine (University of Birmingham) discuss an interdisciplinary study of voluntary action and welfare provision in England in the 1940s and 2010s to highlight how the different iterative processes involved in collaborative archival research are part of what we call ‘co-curation’.
Voluntary Action Historical Society
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83419274762?pwd=Rm9KVTcyUWRaeFgxeXhCeGloUmRDZz09
Meeting ID: 834 1927 4762
Passcode: 159647
IHR Seminars
Full details and to register see
www.history.ac.uk/search-events
Thursday 18 November. ‘Keep the Party Labour’: The Grassroots Alliance and the changing strategies of the Labour Left’s opposition to Tony Blair and New Labour
Friday 19 November. Class in a Time of Women’s Liberation: A Consideration of Factors Shaping the Lives of Working-Class Women in the Long 1970s
Monday 22 November. The Idea of Japan in Victorian Charity Bazaars: Fundraising, Orientalism and Transculturality in the North East of England, 1867—1912
Tuesday 23 November
Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific
Housewives and the House: Women Labour MPs and ‘the housewife’ in Parliament in the 1940s and 1950s
Working class women: Where were the Women? Landladies midwives and class
Wednesday 24 November
Places of Joy: The Role of Heritage After Lockdown
The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Death Work and the Making of the Black Counterpublic Sphere
Monday 29 November. Overcome by fever? Comparative analysis through travel reports produced by the Niger Expedition to the interior of West Africa
Black History Tube Map
Published by BCA and Transport for London the map features over 270 people, venues, and organisations to acknowledge and celebrate the rich and varied contribution Black people have made to London and the UK, from Pre-Tudor times to the present day.
https://blackculturalarchives.org/shop/black-history-tube-map
People
Benjamin Banneker
Chloe Cooley
Enslaved woman whose resistance led to Ontario’s first antislavery legislation.
www.linkedin.com/in/afua-cooper-626b2136
Francis Devine
Sir Arthur Kingsley
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:686
Nina Mae McKinney
Paul Robeson
He joined the London Library in 1934.
https://m.facebook.com/thelondonlibrary/photos/a.206437396050/10158518429886051
East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month
Britain’s East and South East Asian Network, is a volunteer-led group that ‘is passionate about positive representation for ESEA people and stands in solidarity with all marginalised communities.’ Their website contains links to all kinds of resources. This page explains why and how the group was formed.
www.besean.co.uk/spotlight/2019/3/11/thebeseanstory
See also Maisie Chan. Celebrating Ourselves
Reading
Radical ambition: Ramsay MacDonald and the 1895 general election
The Blacketts: A Northern Dynasty’s Rise, Crisis and Redemption
Greg Finch (Tyne Bridge Publishing)
https://my.historicnewengland.org/11338/abolitionists
Children’s Literature
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education’s latest report – CLPE Reflecting Realities – Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature (November 2021)
Enslavement & Black Atlantic
www.academia.edu/12016368/ANTIGUA_AND_BARBUDA_A_critical_bibliography
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