‘We are our own Liberators’, Film Screening, University of Nottingham.
‘We
are our own Liberators’
Friday 19 October, 6-8pm, A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham.
‘We are our own Liberators’ uncovers the hidden history of the Black Liberation Front. Formed in 1971 by former members of the Black Panther Movement in Britain, the BLF campaigned against police racism and promoted black history and culture amongst black communities in Britain.
Documentary screening followed by Q&A with guest speaker, filmmaker Amelia Francis, Young Historians Project
Free but please register: https://blackliberationfront.eventbrite.co.uk
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Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared by Professor Senia Paseta
I have spent a good proportion of the last two years curating Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared. This exhibition in the Weston Library, at the Bodelian, Oxford, highlights items from the Bodleian’s holdings which were made, written, owned or commissioned by women. As the Bodleian holds more than 13 million items from across the ages and the globe, one might think that the chief difficulty in curating such an exhibition would be ruling items out rather than in. In fact, I visited a number of departments which could offer me very few (and even in some cases no) suggestions …
Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slaveholding South
Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slaveholding South
Saturday 19th January 2019, 9.30am-5pm
Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University
This one-day conference explores the varied experiences of southern women in the nineteenth century slaveholding south. Key themes include Sex, Violence and Female Agency in the lives of enslaved and white women; and the memory of light-skinned enslaved women who spoke in the WPA narratives as ‘passing’ as white. Another key theme will investigate Gender, Parenthood and Slavery in its varied forms, and it will examine the relationship between enslaved children and their ‘white’ slaveholding mistress, affective ties between …
Miss Bebb V Law Society Conference & Play Reading
2018 Community History Prize Winner
This year’s winner of the Community History Prize was the Royal College of Nursing with their project on: Service Scrapbooks: Nursing, Storytelling and the First World War. A team of 32 volunteer nurses worked with the RCN Library and Archives team to make the stories of 10 First World War nurses available to a public audience for the first time. They scanned and transcribed 976 scrapbook pages from the archives, using them to recreate these nurses’ lives online.
Everything about the project delighted the judging panel. They were pleased to see the group working with retired and practicing nurses who …
