From Liam Liburd:

My name is Liam Liburd and I’m the Assistant Professor of Black British History at Durham University. I’m also the Department of History’s Public History Officer and am responsible for arranging history-related public events across the academic year.

I’m writing to bring our Black History Month event to your attention…

History Now! BHM 2023: Black History in the North East

Thursday, 26 October 2023, 5:30-7:30pm
Great Hall, Durham Town Hall

A discussion of academic research and public history projects on the North East’s Black history to mark Black History Month 2023.Featuring presentations and discussion from:

• Busola Afolabi, the Director of Newcastle-based educational charity, Success4All. As part of their work engaging, empowering and motivating young people to succeed in education, Success4All have facilitated youth-led projects on Black history in their local area.
• Terry Graham, Head of history at Heworth Grange School in Gateshead and the lead in Project North Star – a multi-faceted project looking at promoting Black history with schools and local communities and amplifying the North East’s history in national conversations on this subject.
• Joe Redmayne, a final year History PhD student at Newcastle University interested in global labour history. His thesis situates County Durham during the year 1919 transnationally and explores the global implications of the Empire on British society through regional working-class consciousness. He uses a multi-occupational approach and the category of whiteness to renew our understanding of class consciousness in an age of world empires.

Chaired by Liam Liburd, Assistant Professor of Black British History.

Registration is essential. Please register for free tickets here.

Please do spread the word among your members and contacts and it would be great to some of the North East Labour History Society at the event.

Best wishes,

Liam