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Uncovering Hidden Histories : a creative practice PhD to uncover, explore and engage people with black histories in Lancaster and Morecambe

19 May 2022

Image: Lancaster Maritime Museum (interior shot) Applications are invited for a Creative Practice PhD (via MPhil) studentship at the UCLAN Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora…

Artist Commission: Black Lancastrians in the 18th Century

19 Mar 2022

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Image: Judges’ Lodgings interior shot with portraits of Lancastrians involved in the business of slavery and mahogany furniture forested by enslaved Africans in the West…

Lancashire’s Unknown Black Soldiers

11 Mar 2022

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Image: Postcard dated 10 December 1918 from Salomón de la Selva to W. Adolphe Roberts. Walter Adolphe Roberts Archive, MS 353, National Library of Jamaica,…

Black Mobilities Conference

10 Jan 2022

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BLACK MOBILITIES IN THE ATLANCTIC WORLD International Conference Institute for Black Atlantic Research University of Central Lancashire 13-14 January 2022 | online via Microsoft Teams…

“Call Mr. Robeson.” A Life, With Songs, Written and performed by Tayo Aluko

26 Oct 2021

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IBAR is very proud to present Call Mr. Robeson. A Life, With Songs, Written and performed by Tayo Aluko. It will be shown at the…

IBAR receives a £5,000 commission to investigate the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society’s links to abolition and slavery in the period 1780-1865.

22 Jun 2021

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The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society was founded in 1781, at a time when the city’s rapidly mechanising textile industry placed it at the centre…

Arts and Activism in the Age of Black Lives Matter Webinar Series

17 May 2021

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Between June and July 2021 Preston Black History Group and the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, sponsored by the Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile…

Exhibition Lubaina Himid “Memorial to Zong” at the Lancaster Maritime Museum

04 Oct 2020

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Image: Lubaina Himid “Memorial to Zong,” photographer: Andy Keate, image courtesy of Hollybush Gardens & the artist IBAR is proud to announce the exhibition of…