“By casual acquaintances she was regarded as somewhat cold and reserved, but her friends and patients found in her a ready sympathy – devoid of sloppiness – a staunch loyalty and a keen sense of humour.”[1] This is how in…
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Black History Month: On the margins? British Caribbean and British Asian Women: A Brief History, Part 2.
Continued from Part 1. By the mid 1980s more British Asian women worked outside the home in Britain than was assumed by the white population and many such women, particularly those of Hindu and Sikh backgrounds, were moving into the…
Black History Month: On the margins? British Caribbean and British Asian Women: A Brief History, Part 1.
Handsworth, 1971(George Hallett): Source: http://birminghamblackhistory.com/external/gallery.html Black History Month, 2010, provides an opportunity to focus on the lives of British Caribbean and British Asian women – their histories and the factors that have influenced, and continue to influence, their lives. In…
Black History Month: Lilian Masediba Ngoyi (1911-1980)
FEDSAW Women’s Protests, Pretoria 1956. In 1954, Lilian Masediba Ngoyi took to the stage of the inaugural conference of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and stated to the gathered group of multiracial delegates: “Let us be brave: we…
Black History Month: Slavery
Two hundred and twenty-nine years ago this month the slave ship Zong left Africa for Jamaica loaded with newly captured people, of whom an even larger number than usual were doomed to die on the voyage. When by the end…
Black History Month: Hidden lives and silent voices in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Caribbean island of Grenada.
In Britain it has always been a challenge to establish what sort of lives poorer people had during this period; the lives of black and mixed-race women in the British West Indies island of Grenada are even more difficult to…
Black History Month: Black community in Eighteenth Century London.
As long ago as 1722 there was an established Black community in London, big enough to turn out in numbers in the wintry middle of January that year for the funeral of a black man named Phipps, who owned an…
Black History Month: Amy Bailey, ‘Discrimination’, Public Opinion (16 July 1938).
I have been to functions, where I happened to have been the only black[i] woman, and therefore an object of curiosity and resentment, nothing more. I could have been alone on a desert island. I have been to other functions…
Women’s Work, Yesterday and Today, part three.
This is the final part of my interview with the University of Warwick’s knowledge portal, promoting the WHN conference, ‘Performing the self: women’s lives in historical perspective’. You can also read parts one and two. What do you think are the key factors…