Please Note: BHC Season 12 - now from 2.30pm in UK 8.30am in Jamaica - or what ever time where you are!
We will have time for introductions, updates and conversations from 2.30pm / 8.30am and then start the recording of the presentations at 2.55pm / 8.55am - just join when you can.
'Speak the truth, speak it ever, cause it what it will,
he who hides the wrong he does, does the wrong thing still.'
Jamaican Proverb
We are inviting you to the last scheduled Zoom meeting for Season 12
Topic: Black History Conversation Season 12 - Friday July 19, 2024.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83842972376?pwd=cEVGV0tHakxnZ0JNQ0tyRzU5TG43Zz09
Meeting ID: 838 4297 2376
Passcode: 534036
You will be directed straight into the session - no registration needed.
Next session: - Friday July 19, 2024.
In 1693, Captain Thomas Phillips embarked on a voyage from London to Guinea, where he purchased enslaved Africans on behalf of the Royal African Company. The subsequent journey across the Atlantic witnessed a tragic toll, with hundreds of the enslaved captives, and many of the crew, losing their lives before the ship reached the shores of Barbados.
Fast forward to 2010, three centuries later, in 2010, Brecon Town Council made a startling decision—to honour Captain Phillips with a plaque. Brecon Town Council’s decision to honour Captain Phillips with a plaque ignites controversy.
In this engaging and original narrative, Rosemary Caldicott analyses the pages of Phillips’s journal to reveal the day-to-day brutality that defined the triangular trade, uncovering the forgotten stories of the victims in this dark chapter in history. She also reveals the compelling story of the campaign to remove the plaque, a campaign that finally bore fruit amid the world-wide ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests that reached the heart of Brecon.
This book is amazing value at £12 plus p&p from:
https://www.brh.org.uk/site/where-to-buy-brhg-publications/
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I will post the Windrush series shortly - apologies for delay
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23 5 2024 - Rudi Page joins us from Jamaica to tell us about last years Windrush 75 activities
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17 05 24 - we missed this week due to technical difficulties
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10 05 24 Simon Ferrigno - Jacob Wainwright's story
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3/5/24 We are welcoming Lamesha Ruddock, who is currently studying in Canada and Dr Joseph Farquharson Director of the Jumiekan Langwij Yunnit at the University of the West Indies.
Click here for the link https://youtu.be/ZDxJ1nU-VS0
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26 04 24 Alan Lester - author of 'The Truth About Empire'
Click here for recording https://youtu.be/PEuqbJeZHSo
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19 04 24 Professor Celia Naylor - Research on the story of Rose Hall
- Africana Studies and History and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Click here to watch the recording: https://youtu.be/ocVTTEv5OMU
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Friday 12th April - Atinuka has agreed to join us to talk about her latest book
We will also present a postumous Black History Heros Award to Dr Jim Thakoodin RIP
Check the recording here: https://youtu.be/PwPqd_wiZiQ
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Coming Up
24 05 24 Windrush leaves Kingston on 24 05 48
31 05 24 Dr Juanita Cox ??
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7 06 24 Bill Hern and Levi Lawrence and Neal?
14 06 24 Joan Grant - a discussion this season about the 1950s migration and the 1958 “race riots”.
21 06 24 Windrush arrives Tilbury 22 06 48
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