1 July. 10am-4pm. Tyneside Irish Brigade Memories Project Exhibition
Tyneside Irish Centre, 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SG.
7,200 Tyneside Irish who served during World War 1; 1,200 of them died, many on the first day of the Battle of the Somme – 1 July 1916. Friends and families were left behind to mourn and to remember. T he Exhibition has been created by the Tyneside Irish Cultural Society, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Saturday 2 July. 1pm-8pm. Stanley Stories Community Festival
Stanley Stories will celebrate the people, past and present, who have shaped South Norwood as Stanley Arts approaches the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Stanley Halls.
Wednesday 6 July. 6-8pm. Trade Union Education – History and Future
This seminar will explore the history of Trade Union Education – both learning for activists and broader learning for members.
www.history.ac.uk/events/trade-union-education-history-and-future
Saturday 23 July. Anita Sethi Writing Workshop
Manchester Museum on as part of South Asian Heritage Month
www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display
For details about Anita Sethi see below.
Tuesday 26 July. 7pm. Elswick’s Shipyard And Its Colonial Legacy 1885-1918
Zoom talk by Celina Hart (Newcastle University) for North East Labour History Society.
Tayo Aluko’s Performances
2 July. Ely Library, Cambs: Just An Ordinary Lawyer
4 July. WPFW FM. Paul Robeson’s Love Song
4 July. BBC Radio 4. The Amazing Life of Olaudah Equiano
17 July. Paul Robeson’s Love Song (plus Q&A). Online
21 – 27 Aug. Edinburgh Fringe: Call Mr. Robeson @ theSpace, Surgeon’s Hall
22 – 28 Aug. Edinburgh Fringe. Just An Ordinary Lawyer @ C Place Studio
14 Oct. Holyhead, N. Wales: Call Mr. Robeson. Ucheldre Arts
15 Oct. Holyhead, N. Wales: Just An Ordinary Lawyer. Ucheldre Arts
Nov 4. Eastbourne, E. Sussex: Call Mr. Robeson. Grove Theatre
See Tayo’s latest newsletter at:
Its Not Just Windrushers Who Are Under the Threat of Deportation
Joram Nechironga served in the British army for five years, including in Iraq. He has been living in the UK for more than twenty years and has two British children but is now facing deportation to Zimbabwe. When Joram went to Zimbabwe in 2006, he was tortured and beaten for serving in the British Army and was viewed as a “spy”. He has launched an urgent funding appeal to fight his case and stay safely in the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-61857392
www.crowdjustice.com/case/fight-the-deportation-of-a-ex-british-soldier
Labour’s Wakefield By-election Victory 1932
https://sslh.org.uk/2022/06/24/the-beginning-of-a-flowing-tide-for-labour-labours-1932-wakefield-by-election-victory
On the BBC
Back in Time for Birmingham
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018ljt
Lenny Henry’s Caribbean Britain
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018lpn
Fighting for King and Empire: Britain’s Caribbean Heroes
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05v08b7
Rainbow City – What Sort of Boy?
Repeat of the first programme in a series aired in 1967.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0018k3z/rainbow-city-series-1-1-what-sort-of-a-boy
“Never before had a black actor taken the lead role in a British television drama. Errol John plays John Steele, a lawyer dealing with the personal and professional difficulties faced when representing people of colour in the 1960s.”
Muslims in Britain
Book by Professor Humayun Ansari.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-infidel-within-2
An extract from the book can be read at:
www.amazon.co.uk/Infidel-Within-Muslims-Britain-since-ebook/dp/B07FXNS9CN
For more details about Prof. Ansari’s areas of research and a list of his many publications, see:
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/humayun-ansari(121c395b-1484-4965-8b5a-b6443e55e9d7).html
Amanda Aldridge
www.historycalroots.com/amanda-aldridge-10th-march-1866-to-9th-march-1956
Mona Baptiste, Windrush Passenger
Historycal Roots has published the first biography of her. She probably achieved her biggest fame in Germany.
www.amazon.co.uk/What-about-Princess-times-Baptiste/dp/B0B1BNCCBJ/ref=sr_1_1
Journeys To The Grave
BBC Radio 3 series Journeys to the Grave includes
Anne Bronte, Radclyffe Hall, W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde, and Ignatius Sancho. For latter see:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00182cy
Anita Sethi introduces Anne Bronte.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00182c5
Anita Sethi
Sethi was born in the North of England of South Asian Ancestry via indentured labourers in Guyana.
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/21/i-belong-here-by-anita-sethi-review-a-healing-journey
For details of her book I Belong Here see:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/i-belong-here-9781472983930/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmaUAdszZKE
Interview with Sethi:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p68gx_EYiPg
Her Guradian article in April 2018 article commenting on Prince Charles is at:
Indendtured Labourers
Sethi’s work on her indentured labourer family in Guyana background can be read at:
www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-117/holes-history#axzz5D8BCsai8
See also:
We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of indenture, edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and Tina K. Ramnarine
www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Your-Memory-descendants-indenture/dp/1912250071
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