Monday 20 March. 5.30pm. The lost, late medieval, greater and lesser chapels of the Bishop of Durham at Auckland Castle: archaeological and liturgical re-imaginings
Online Zoom IHR seminar talk. Register on IHR site.
Tuesday 21 March. 7pm. The 1980 Steel Strike on Teesside
Zoom talk by Charlie McGuire (Teesside University) for North East Labour History Society.
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82005871102?pwd=NVZvSEhwcHpwejRySG1JZFMxaDdIZz09
Meeting ID: 820 0587 1102 Passcode: 043412
Thursday 23 March. 6pm. “Bound by Treaty”: Emancipation and Diplomacy in the Age of Revolutions & Politics Over Relief and Rehabilitation: Revisiting the Bengal Famine of 1943-44
Online Zoom IHR seminar talk. Register on IHR site.
Saturday 25 March. 10am. Wandsworth Common Heritage Trail
Anne Lambert leads Friends of Wandsworth Common Heritage Trail walk.
Meet by the Friends notice board/flagpole, near Skylark.
Monday 27 March. 7pm.Louise Cripps Samoiloff
Christian Høgsbjerg will launch his new publication for the Socialist History Society.
Please register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOqqrDgoH9RHNBON2_4GX_d8nOeaksQo
The book is available from Bookmarks bookshop…
Louise Cripps Samoiloff (1904-2001) was an English born writer, journalist, publisher, historian and socialist who became an American citizen who had a close relationship with C. L. R. James.
To 4 June. Shifting the centre: Grenada as reference
Black Cultural Archives exhibition of materials from the Grenadian Revolution (1979-1983).
Tuesday, 4 April. 6pm. Who Benefited from the British Empire?
Gresham College Lecture by Professor Martin Daunton
Friday 21 April. 12 noon. Poor Man’s Improvement and Land Settlement Association Petition
On 23 April 1938 in Jamaica Robert Rumble’s Poor Man’s Improvement and Land Settlement Association sent a petition to the governor demanding a minimum wage for agricultural workers and peasants and an end to exploitation by landlords stating that a century after their forebears were released from slavery they were still in a state of economic slavery to the landowners.” Prof Anthony Bogues will take a lead, along with members of the Pennants Local History Research Team.
Black History Conversations Zoom event.
http://www.blackhistoryconversations.com
Tuesday 25 April. 6.30-8pm. In conversation: Gary Younge with Linton Kewsi Johnson
Gary Younge discusses his new book Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter.
Black Cutural Archives at Lambeth Town Hall.
Thursday 27 April. 7-8.30pm. Highlighting Heritage: Ellen Morewood, Industrial Queen of Alfreton
Talk by Dr Peter Collinge for Arkwright Society
In person and online • register here
In 1853, when he came to Britain to raise funds for the Anti-slavery Society of Canada, at a time when there was a large influx of escaped slaves from the United States seeking refuge in the British colony, Ward brought letters of introduction to Thomas Binney, planning to seek help initially from fellow Congregationalists in London. He spoke at a meeting chaired by Lord Shaftesbury which led to the formation of a London Committee of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada that raised £1,200 to assist fugitive slaves.
1855 saw him speak at the London Anti Slavery Conference’ and the publication of his Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada & England.
Saturday 13 May. 2pm. Women and Chartism
Talk by Dr Matthew Roberts for Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Labour History Society
The St. Thomas Centre Hall, Chatsworth Road, Chester
Monday 17 July – Friday 18 August. South Asian Heritage Month
https://www.southasianheritage.org.uk
Previous talks are still available to watch on SAHM’s YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@SouthAsianHeritageMonth/videos
Preparing For 75th Windrush Anniversary
Black History Conversations will run 6 sessions in May and June.
Keep a look on what the Windrush Foundation is planning at:
https://windrushfoundation.com
Reading
Nadia Cattouse
Interview at:
Article at:
http://www.historycalroots.com/nadia-cattouse
Singing at:
The Cato St Conspiracy
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022.
Westminster Project website:
https://www.catostreetconspiracy.org.uk
Jacob Wainwright Project
Wainwright was a companion of the explorer David Livingstone on his last journey in Africa) left a diary of the journey he and 60 other Africans made to bring Livingstone’s body to Zanzibar. A project has been underway in Nottingham to make it available.
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