IBAR a Key Partner as Judges’ Lodgings Museum commissions Kendal artist Lela Harris for its Facing the Past project
At a public lecture at the Judges’ Lodgings Museum in 2020, Professor Alan Rice was asked what could be done to change things at the…
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Black Mobilities Conference – Public Recordings Available
In January 2022 IBAR hosted the online conference Black Mobilities in the Atlantic World. The keynote lecture of the event and a creative practitioners’ roundtable…
Uncovering Hidden Histories : a creative practice PhD to uncover, explore and engage people with black histories in Lancaster and Morecambe
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
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
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
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
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.
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…