Black History Month 2015 – get involved

The University of Nottingham is celebrating Black History Month 2015 with music, public lectures, film screenings […]

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Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, BME, BME Network, culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, equality and diversity, history

A journey with George Africanus

Norma Gregory, Historian and Director of Nottingham News Centre, takes us on ‘A journey with George Africanus’, exploring the life of Nottingham’s first black entrepreneur. George Africanus was brought to England in slavery aged three, but ended his life as a successful businessman. Part of Black History Month 2015.

Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, George Africanus, history, local, Norma Gregory, Nottingham, Nottingham News Centre, people

Clarks in Jamaica – with Al Newman

Join us for a conversation with Al Newman, DJ and cultural historian, discussing the phenomenal popularity of Clarks shoes in reggae culture. Part of Black History Month 2015.

Tags: Al Newman, Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, culture, fashion, history, Jamaica, reggae

Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners – with David Olusoga

Join David Olusoga, historian and broadcaster, and Katie Donington, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, as they discusses ‘Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners’ following the BBC Two documentary broadcast earlier this year. Expect a look at the scale of the slave trade, and the extraordinary choice by the government of the day to compensate slave owners for their ‘loss of property’.

Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, David Olusoga, Department of History, history, Institute for the Study of Slavery, Katie Donington, slavery

Living History Day

Visit the 5th/60th Rifles, an active re-enactment group, in their 1815 Living History Camp. Around 1pm there will be a drill and firing display demonstrating the tactics used by line infantry at the Battle of Waterloo, two hundred years ago.

Tags: community, family, history, living history, manuscripts and special collections, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, re-enactment, Weston Gallery Exhibition

Postponed: Illness, infirmity and US foreign policy in the 1950s

Dr Bevan Sewell, Department of American and Canadian Studies, and the Health Humanities Network present ‘”I felt I ought not to have argued with this dying man” – illness, infirmity and US foreign policy in the 1950s’.

Tags: America, Bevan Sewell, Department of American and Canadian Studies, health, Health Humanities Network, healthcare, history

Global cotton connections of the Derwent Valley: creative reflections

This free event is part of the AHRC Connected Communities Festival Fortnight 2015, and is open to anyone interested in reflecting on the global connections of the Derwent Valley and its world heritage site.

Tags: AHRC, Arts and Humanities Research Council, community, Derwent Valley, Global Cotton Connections, history, local, Peak District

Looking to China – from Thoresby Hall to Shanghai

In this presentation, Dr Gabriele Neher will uncover previously hidden stories of the wider cultural impact of trading relationships between China and the UK.

Tags: China, culture, Department of Art History, Gabriele Neher, history, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, summer seminar series

Passions of the Cut Sleeve

For a long time, homosexuality has been regarded as a ‘western import’ in China. Hongwei Bao examines evidence from China’s history suggesting otherwise, and in doing so offers a new understanding of same-sex intimacy in the context of China.

Tags: China, culture, Department of Culture Film and Media, history, homosexuality, Hongwei Bao, LGBT, media, Nottingham Lakeside Arts

Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives

The Centre for Research in Race and Rights, the Department of American and Canadian Studies, and Nottingham Contemporary present ‘Critical whiteness: US and UK perspectives’.

Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, Department of American and Canadian Studies, diversity, equality, history, Nottingham Contemporary, race, Sharon Monteith