WANDSWORTH
HERITAGE FESTIVAL
Saturday
24 May to Sunday 8 June
COMMEMORATING
JOHN ARCHER
Royal Mail stamp April 2013
This year is
the 100th Anniversary of the Battersea Mayoral year in 1913/14 of John Archer,
an advocate of social justice and black rights. His biographer Sean Creighton
is giving two talks and leading four walks about his life and views and the
parts of Battersea particularly associated with him.
Tuesday 27 May, 7pm
John Archer’s Views on British and Black History
John Archer
was actively interested in the history of African peoples around the Atlantic,
and the campaigns for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the West
Indies and the United States. Sean will discuss his views on British and Black
History, including his view that British history neglected black history, and
about the people he regarded as significant inc. white abolitionists and black
campaigners in Britain and the United
States. Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, SW11. Free.No need to book in advance.
Tuesday 3 June, 7pm
Culture and Sport
in John Archer’s Battersea
A keen
supporter of the Nine Elms Swimming Club and friend of the black composer
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor d. 1912) is just one of many leading citizens who
supported the rich cultural and sports life of Battersea from the 1890s to
1930. Sean Creighton, a historian of the Edwardian skating boom, will discuss
aspects of that life. Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, SW11. Free. No need to
book in advance.
Walks
Through John Archer’s’ Battersea
Wednesday 28
May, 7pm and Sunday 1 June, 2pm. To Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St
Joseph Church, Battersea Park Rd
Thursday 5
June, 7pm and Saturday 7 June, 2pm. To Battersea
Arts Centre
Meet outside 55 Brynmaer Rd, off Albert Bridge Rd
(Battersea Park Rd end). Free.
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