Dr Viji Kuppan is the Research Associate at The Centre for Hate Studies-School of Criminology & School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Visiting Research Fellow Leeds Beckett University



 
Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. By recruiting, training and working alongside 20 community research partners from minority ethnic backgrounds, the project generated new, co-produced knowledge about the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced within the English countryside. 

 

Dr Viji Kuppan managed a work package about the historical, cultural and symbolic expressions of racism in the countryside and has a deep love of the countryside...for one, he's climbed several stages of Mount Snowden with a group of fifty people of colour, some of whom who have limited access to the countryside- enjoying the rugged beauty and grandeur of this land

Dr Viji Kuppan is the Research Associate at The Centre for Hate Studies-School of Criminology & School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Visiting Research Fellow Leeds Beckett University

                     
Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. Consequently, the experiences of people from minority ethnic backgrounds living in and visiting rural spaces have remained largely ‘hidden’.  This project seeks to ‘re-story’ our understandings of life in the countryside by using evidence to unpack and transform old narratives and by addressing skewed perceptions of rural spaces. It is the first project of its kind to place the lived experiences of ethnic minorities centre stage through its co-produced research design, and in doing so it will expose and dismantle the barriers which prevent minority ethnic households and visitors from feeling a sense of belonging within rural communities. 

Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.

The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.

Raj Pal and son !

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/raj-pal-65898924




… is an advisor at the National Trust and Member of Inclusive histories working group. Raj is engaged with The Churchill and Chartwell project to explore his role in empire and post war Europe. Here, Raj talks to Kevin Ncube @ColonialCountr1 about his experience of the Colonial Countryside Project …. and his son Kabir tells an interesting story of laying daffodils on a certain grave ….

Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.

The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.

Karen Onojaife - https://karenonojaife.com/

Her work has previously been long listed for the Bridport Short Story and the Fish Short Story competitions. Her novel Borrowed Light won the Reader's Choice award and placed runner-up in the inaugural SI Leeds Literary Prize 2012. She is a VONA/Voices fellow and a recipient of a place on the Hedgebrook Writers in Residence program. Here she reads an Extract from “Stet”- Karen wrote Stet for the Colonial Countryside Project and tells Kevin more about her experience of working on the commission……

Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.

The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.

Pete Kalu: http://www.peterkalu.com/cvbio/

Story weaver, storyteller, novelist, poet and researcher for eight Manchester Museums bicentenary of the abolition of the trade in slaves researcher- Peter has a

PhD Creative Writing from (Lancaster University) 2019. Peter has written/ performed, among many things, Bluebird, which is a Colonial Countryside project-related poem-song 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zy2EVuETRc

Kevin Ncube[Project Manager @ColonialCountr1] chats to Peter after he reads from his work ‘Richard Watt the First, Merchant’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2bf16kqOAU

Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.

The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.

Mahsuda Snaith: https://mahsudasnaith.com/
is a writer of novels and short stories. Her debut novel ‘The Things We Thought We Knew’ (Black Swan) was released in 2017 when she was named an ‘Observer New Face of Fiction’. Her second novel ‘How to Find Home’ (Black Swan) was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book at Bedtime’. She leads creative writing workshops at De Montfort University- Mahsuda tells Kevin Ncube [Project Manager @ColonialCountr1] about her experience of working on her colonial countryside commission after reading her piece Waste Not, Want Not ….

Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.


The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.

Malachi McIntosh is editor and publishing director of Wasafiri. He previously co-led the Runnymede Trust's award-winning Our Migration Story project and spent four years as a lecturer in postcolonial literature at the University of Cambridge

The Editor and Publishing Director of Wasafiri magazine, Malachi McIntosh is the author of Emigration and Caribbean Literature (2015) and the editor o...

Read more at: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/mbifl2020/speakers/malachi-mcintoshmalachi-mcintosh-mbifl-2020-1.4439745

Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.

The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.

Ayanna Gillian Lloyd: https://ayannagillianlloyd.com/

…. is a writer from Trinidad & Tobago. Her work has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Callaloo and Anomaly.

She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and is now a postgraduate researcher in Creative-Critical Writing at UEA.

She is a contributor to Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted with her work THE SHADOW MAN and tells Kevin Ncube [Project Manager @ColonialCountr1] more about her contribution to the project, that is, after she reads her engaging piece !

Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.

The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.

Trinidad and Tobago’s award winning poet Andre Bagoo https://www.andrebagoo.com
reads from his work Litany For Two Boys at Dyrham Park, England and talks to Kevin Ncube [Project Manager @ColonialCountry1] about writing the piece…..