The History Hotline

William Cuffay was a chartist leader in early Victorian Britain. His mother was English and his father was a formerly enslaved African man born in Saint Kitts. He began as an apprentice to a tailor and quickly ended up in the world of politics, fighting for working people's rights.

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Host: Deanna Lyncook Researcher: Zakiyyah Riaz

100 EPISODES. A special episode to mark a special milestone... Reflections on the podcast so far, how I got here and why I started.

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On Wednesday 15th March over 400,000 workers opted to strike across multiple industries. Strikes have become commonplace within British society as of late and with them impacting so many of us in a variety of ways. I thought it would be wise to sit down with some of those taking to the pickets for better pay, working conditions, job security, pensions and to make the services better for those who use them.Thank you to those that contributed to this episode: Denis Fernando, Holly Cooper, Rachel, Zac, Sham and others.

This episode looks at Hazel Carby's 'White Women Listen!' and explores intersectionality and the representation of Black women in British history.

Engagement with Dr King often begins and ends with his “I Have A Dream Speech” and even though Britain seems to bring him out at all possible times, we actually know very little about him.

In this episode we will look at two of his visits to the UK in 1961 and 1964. His activism balanced on his firm beliefs in equality across all lines. We will discuss who he spoke to and met and the transnational nature of his activism and the wider US Civil Rights Movement.

Further Reading:

Dr Hannah Elias, John Collins, Martin Luther King, Jr, and transnational networks of protest and resistance in the Church of England during the 1960s, in “The Church of England and British Politics since 1900”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/02/martin-luther-king-in-london-1964-reflections-on-a-landmark-visit#:~:text=Five%20months%20before%20his%20assassination,UK%20university%20in%20his%20lifetime.

https://www.bloomsbury.org.uk/60-years-on-the-legacy-of-martin-luther-kings-first-london-sermon/

https://www.baptist.org.uk/Articles/619003/60_years_on.aspx

https://www.stpauls.co.uk/visit-from-martin-luther-king

In this episode I am joined by Tionne Parris, a PhD candidate specialising in African American history and member of the editorial board of the History Matters journal. We will be discussing a whole host of Radical Black Women including: Claudia Jones, Angela Davis, Eslanda Robeson, Vicky Garvin and Louise Thompson Patterson.

We discuss Black British History, Black Radicalism and Black Power in the UK and US contexts.

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Henry Brown was born enslaved in Richmond, Virginia in either 1815 or 1816 at the Hermitage plantation. Unlike many enslaved Africans he knew and lived with his family members on the same plantation.

However, after being split from his wife and children he decided that he could no longer be without his freedom and liberty and escaped in the way he saw best fit... in a box.

Tune in to find out more about his escape and subsequent life in Britain.

Passing as a white man and his slave, Ellen and William Craft escaped enslavement in Georgia and headed for freedom. This episode will look at their escape, their lives in Britain and their constant efforts to free others from enslavement and garner support for abolition.