ISOS - supporting Black History Month at The University of Nottingham

ISOS is pleased to support Black History Month at The University of Nottingham. Details of all activities can be found on the Black History Month blog post.

ISOS is supporting the debate on Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, led by historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and Katie Donington, Co-director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights and ISOS affiliate. This event is being held on Monday 12 October at 6.30pm in A30 Lecture Theatre, Nottingham Lakeside Arts:

• David will be speaking about the making of the two-part documentary, Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, recently shown on the BBC.
• Katie Donington was part of the UCL Legacies of British Slave-ownership project team whose research informed the programmes and her blog reflects further on the event and the issues it raises.
• Panellist Susanne Seymour, Deputy Director of ISOS, will discuss how the UCL Legacies project has contributed to her work on slavery connections in rural and provincial Britain.

Please see the Storified highlights of the event presentations, discussions and tweets.

ISOS welcomes the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group, facilitated by Bright Ideas Nottingham, to show their two films, The Colour of Money and Global Cotton Connections: Untangling the Threads of Slavery, on Monday 19 October in A30 Lecture Theatre, Nottingham Lakeside Arts.

Both films reflect on how British heritage venues engage with slavery legacies, drawing on a series of visits made by the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group to slavery museums, country houses, cotton mills and port cities.

The films were made as part of Bright Ideas Nottingham’s The Colour of Money, Heritage Lottery Fund project and the AHRC-funded Global Cotton Connections project, led by the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with the Universities of Sheffield and Leicester. The films will be introduced by members of the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group and Susanne Seymour, PI of the Global Cotton Connections project and Deputy Director of ISOS.

Susanne’s blog provides background to the film showings.