After several weeks of snow, this Scot, at least, appreciates our ancestor’s need for festivities to bring cheer to the unrelenting cold and wet. This December brings a number of opportunities to celebrate from Al-Hijra, the Muslim New Year on…
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Recognising local faces in global spaces: lessons we can learn from our Indian grandmothers, part two
Part one of this article can be found here. Participating in international women’s forums during the interwar years often made this generation aware of their marginalisation as Indian women and colonial subjects within these forums. This was brought home to…
Sixteen Days Against Violence Against Women
Today, Thursday, 25th November 2010, sees the launch of 16 Days of Action to Eliminate Violence Against Women. Events are planned worldwide to increase awareness of this pressing problem, which continues to require immediate attention and intervention today. My own…
Anna Muncaster 1885-1930
“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…
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…