What a strange couple of years it has been because of the pandemic. Alongside the Black Lives Movement and the controversies about telling the real histories of Britain, our history interests have benefited as a result of Zoom and other Internet talk formats allowing people to take part in in those events they would not have been able to if they had been held in physical meetings. A continuing problem is how to get the information about talks etc around the networks. The Black History Lunchtime Convervsations series has only recently come to my attention thanks to a reader of this blog. Another is the short notice given in circulating information via email and social media. How can networking sharing of information be improved in the coming year?
Have a enjoyable Xmas and New Year Break.
Sunday 19 December. 7-9m. Remembering Allan Wilmot
The Windrush Foundation Zoom event. Its obituary of Wilmot is at
https://windrushfoundation.com/featured/allan-charles-wilmot-1925-2021/
Marc Wadsworth’s appreciation of was published in ‘Other Lives’ in The Guardian yesterday.
To join the Zoom goto
Nursing A Nation
Message from Nubian Jack Community Trust:
‘We trust you are all keeping well. 2021 has been an exciting year for the Trust, and as we near its completion we thought it a good idea to forward you a link to our website which has details on the anthology we published this year. It accompanied the unveiling of a statue to NHS Windrush & Commonwealth in North London, and includes an endorsement letter from Her Majesty the Queen in the introduction. Nursing A Nation is the most comprehensive book to date highlighting diversity and inclusion in the NHS, before and since its formation in 1948. Although the RRP for the book is £34.99, we have reduced it as a festive offer so that the RRP is inclusive of Postage and Packaging. Please feel free to share the link if you think there is anyone who would benefit from this amazing and informative resource.
Nursing A Nation – Nubian Jak Community Trust
Reading & Viewing
Black History Lunchtime Conversations
www.blackhistoryconversations.com/index.asp
The Caribbean
www.academia.edu/34877107/The_Political_Ecology_of_Plantations_from_the_Ground_Up
www.academia.edu/16299687/2007_Archaeology_of_the_Creole_Cultures_of_the_French_West_Indies
www.academia.edu/11641868/Inside_the_Pot_House_diaspora_identity_and_locale_in_Barbadian_ceramics
www.academia.edu/8759238/St_Eustatius_1636_1772_2nd_Draft_
Slave Rebellions
Interview with Thomas Harding about his book White Dust. The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery in Christmas issue of BBC History Magazine.
Labour Movement
www.academia.edu/1663352/The_British_Labour_government_s_policy_towards_the_Greek_Colonels_1967_68
South Asians in Britain
www.racearchive.org.uk/british-bangladeshi-and-belonging-in-manchester
Paul Robeson
www.classical-music.com/features/artists/how-paul-robeson-fell-under-the-spell-of-stalinism
Franz Fanon’s Legacy
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/frantz-fanons-enduring-legacy
Barbados Becomes A Republic
History & Social Action News and Events 