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Black History Month Reading List

WHN / October 17, 2024
Black History, Blog, Blog and News

A Stash of Gems on Women from the Nigerian National Archives – Tayo Agunbiade

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 24, 2022

  Two well-known women-led events in Nigeria’s colonial era are the Aba Women’s War (1929) and Abeokuta Women’s Tax protests (1946/48). Beyond these events, historiographical accounts are mostly written from male perspectives, with women barely mentioned. For instance, the height…

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Black History, Blog and News, Event, Events, Seminars

[RESCHEDULED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE]: Black History Month Special Seminar – Rediscovering Nigeria’s Suffragettes

Rachel Chua / October 19, 2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to extenuating personal circumstances, this seminar has now been rescheduled. Please check back here and on our social media pages for more information as to the new rescheduled date. Apologies to all who have signed up for the…

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Biography, Black History, Blog, Blog and News, Featured Posts

‘I have always been one of the boys’: Hilda Ramushu and the railways in Zimbabwe, 1970s-1980s – Nicole Sithole

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 17, 2022

Railways and railway infrastructure are in many ways gendered. The way the train and other public and private spaces of the railways are ordered and used reflect not only cultural, societal, and even political norms, values, and practices, but are…

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Black History, Blog, Blog and News

Socialism and the Black British Women’s Movement – Kelly-Ann Gordon

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 10, 2022

Generally, researchers of Black British history have focused upon men, producing a version of history from which Black women have been largely excluded.[1] However, this is now changing. Natalie Thomlinson’s work has mapped the emergence of a Black British women’s…

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Black History, Blog and News, Event, Events, Seminars

12th October 2022: Black History Month Special Seminar – Black Women and Legal Entanglements

Rachel Chua / October 3, 2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: Unfortunately, due to extenuating personal circumstances, Amy Latimer will no longer be able to attend our seminar. Bethany Brewer will still share her work on Rwandan Women and the Gacaca Courts.   Don’t miss the first of our two…

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Black History, Blog, Blog and News

‘Without friends or money’: African and Asian Mothers and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital – Hannah Dennett

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 3, 2022

When London’s Foundling Hospital opened its doors on 25 March 1741, it aimed to provide an alternative to mothers abandoning their babies in the streets of the city. Mothers unable or unwilling to care for their infants could, instead, bring…

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Black History, Blog, Blog and News

Irene Scruggs and American Expats in Europe – by Ashley Steenson

Lyndsey Jenkins / January 31, 2022

In Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (1998), philosopher Angela Davis considers the “ideological implications of the blues,” asking “What can we learn from blueswomen like Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday…?” Though the music of artists like Bessie…

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Black History, Blog, Blog and News

Mollie Hunte (1932-2015): Educator, Psychologist and Champion of Caribbean People, by Rebecca Adams

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 1, 2021

Mollie Hunte was an educational psychologist from British Guiana (now Guyana) born in 1932. She was a significant part of the Black Education Movement in the UK during the 1970s onwards and made a large impact on the African-Caribbean London…

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