The History Hotline

This is the last episode in our migration series where we will be looking at Nigerian migration into Britain with our special guest history student Abigael Fagbolagun!

We'll be discussing a brief history of Nigerian and also looking at the main ways Nigerian's in Britain created community and settled: Faith and the Church and Access to home.

Another episode in our migration series this week, with special guest, history PhD student Satya Gunput. He will be exploring his PhD research and his role as a historian currently working within the structures of UK academia. This is a part 2 to episode 31 and follows on from the discussions that took place in part 1.

Together we continue discussions on migration, focusing on the Punjabi community in Southall, the Southall Black sisters, the radicalisation of Asians in Britain, the recent (March 2021) government report on racial disparities, the 'war on British History' and systemic racial issues vs. individual racial struggles.

https://southallblacksisters.org.uk/

https://twitter.com/hisnameissatya

https://vimeo.com/476804477/89cf852f8c

Another episode in our migration series this week, with special guest, history PhD student Satya Gunput. He will be exploring his PhD research and his role as a historian currently working within the structures of UK academia.

Together we continue discussions on migration, focusing on the Punjabi community in Southall, different forms of anti-racist struggles, the Southall riots, the organisation of the Southall black Sisters and the case of Kiranjit Ahluwalia.

https://southallblacksisters.org.uk/

https://twitter.com/hisnameissatya

https://vimeo.com/476804477/89cf852f8c

The first episode in the three part migration series... this week we're looking at the islands of the Seychelles and the waves of migration into Britain with special guest Vanessa Stewart.

Is Britain still institutionally racist? This episode will focus on the recently published by the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities. Primarily, thinking about what this means for race relations today...

The daughter of the Alake of Abeokuta, a King in the southern region of Nigeria. Omo-Oba Adenrele Ademola arrived in Britain in 1935 and started her training as a midwife.

She balanced her role as a princess with the demands of her professional nursing career. Balancing royal social events in Britain with a nursing career that spanned 30 years. However, records of her life bear little significance in British archives. We'll discuss why that is and the significance of her life regarding empire, Britain's historical memory and the place of Black women in British history.

This episode is about Queen Nanny of the Maroons (c. 1686 – c. 1755). The Maroons were a group of formerly enslaved Africans, featuring in many Caribbean islands, forming separate communities and antagonising the colonisers on the island. They consistently resisted Spanish and then British colonialism and fought a guerrilla war over many years against British. Queen Nanny legacy is that of a military, spiritual and cultural leader.

Sisters Uncut: https://www.sistersuncut.org/

This episode we will be looking at instances of Black women resisting, in the context of women's current struggles to come to voice and be heard. Using Stella Dadzie's 'A Kick in the Belly' we'll discuss the women that resisted British and Portuguese colonialism, transatlantic slave ship rebellions and the military prowess of African women in the 17th and 18th Century.

The Grandmother of Black feminist movements in Britain. This episode we discuss OWAAD, its roots, aims, achievements and legacy. We also look at the book born out of the movement: 'The Heart of the Race' (1985) and discuss the importance of Black women writing their own historical narratives.

As we jump into Women's History Month (March 2021) we are thinking about the trailblazing British-Jamaican Mary Seacole. The doctress, healer and nurse who travelled across the world from the Caribbean to the Crimea to heal wounded soldiers on the battlefield. We'll be exploring her legacy and the way in which history often excludes Black women from its records.

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