Africans Lives in Northern England Calendar Sells Out
The African Lives in Northern England 2021
calendar has been very successful, and has sold out.
Many appreciative comments have been received from
customers. e.g.
‘Really, the calendars are wonderful and such a
bargain that there is no way I would sleep tonight if I did not 'fess up to
getting more than I bargained for. Thank you so much for such a wonderful
product and such great service!’
‘It is superb!
Congratulations to all those involved in producing it.’
‘I think it’s wonderful. Thank you.’
I ‘must congratulate you and your
group. The quality of paper and reproduction is excellent and the content and
choice of images very informative. I am delighted with mine, … The price is
extremely reasonable. I hope it is a sell out! Well done!’
‘Most impressive. My grandson, just first year at
university will love it and will no doubt fill it with events supporting the
Black Lives Matter events doable from Winchester. The calendar has already gone
as a rare, open this Christmas present now! Please thank the team who carried
this project through.’
The Newcastle Evening Chronicle is planning an article on the calendar.
Proposed Pamphlet
The calendar project group, of which I am a member, has agreed that their next project will be a pamphlet with more details about individuals to be produced for sale next September.
The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne have
created an African Lives section on their website at www.newcastle-antiquaries.org.uk/index.php
This includes more detail, including references
and further reading, that could not fit into the calendar. In due course, there
may be a separate website for the project. Group member Sue Ward, who also
handled the mailing of the calendar, is looking after this aspect. I have been
handling the finances. When the final bills are paid the surplus income will be
transferred to the Society to hold towards the funding for the pamphlet.
A suggestion has already been made that I should
co-ordinate the production of a 2022 calendar for South West London. Hopefully
others may want to do the same for other parts of the country.
More
Information
Further detail about people of African heritage in
the North East is in Part 5 of my recent series of pamphlets on North East slavery
and abolition.
The North East Slavery & Abolition and State Racism - Truth & Memory
On 6 August I was a member of a
discussion panel organised by the Truth and Memory project in South Shields.
The session was recorded and can be seen on You Tube at
www.youtube.com/channel/UCCTPlqRxi5JpCOidczUyQwQ
The text of what I said is at:
http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2020/08/truth-memory-from-newcastles-slavery.html
Tyne
& Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM)
Project member Bill Griffiths of TWAM and I have
been discussing what more it can do on slavery, abolition and African lives,
especially as Newcastle Councillors have asked them to consider helping with a
community engagement project. I have
sent him a range of relevant material from the 2007 Remembering Slavery Project and on black abolitionists. I
have also made a number of suggestions, including:
· putting
back on the website the full set of the North East Slavery & Abolition
Group newsletters 2008-10
· flagging
up parts of the collection that still need to be looked at, including parish
records
· advising
what to look at in new collection acquisitions from 2008
· approaching
churches which have a long history to develop community engagement in which
members of their congregations research the church records at TWAM for their
role in abolition
· reprinting
the 2007 project pamphlet that was written by John Charlton of which 10,000
copies were given away for free
· the
problems of getting into schools and ensuring that material provided to them
for teachers to use is actually known about as staff change
Gateshead
After discussion with me about the need to do a
comprehensive review of parish records for information of people of African
heritage, Sue Wards discussing with a number of members of the Society of
Antiquaries their looking at the records for Gateshead. Of course there may be
churches around the Region which still hold their parish records which members
of their congregations could look at.
Continued at:
http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/african-lives-in-north-east-part-2.html
Re-edited re-the pamphlets on 22 February 2022.
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