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UCLan researchers and Preston Black History Group launch new book ‘England is my home’: Windrush lives in Lancashire

08 Nov 2022

A new book ‘England is my Home’: Windrush Lives in Lancashire was launched on Tuesday 25 October 2022 at the Jalgos Club in Preston. The…

Prof Gretchen Gerzina launches a new edition of “Black England”

23 Sep 2022

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NB. Sadly, due to unforeseen circumstances, both events are cancelled. If there are new dates in the future, we will advertise them. Apologies from the…

IBAR a Key Partner as Judges’ Lodgings Museum commissions Kendal artist Lela Harris for its Facing the Past project

24 Jun 2022

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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…

Black Mobilities Conference – Public Recordings Available

05 Jun 2022

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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

19 May 2022

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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…