Black British History: Local Perspectives

在整个现代时期，非洲人后裔抵达英国，在某些地方建立社区。在世纪，这主要发生在码头城市利物浦、格拉斯哥、卡迪夫、布里斯托和伦敦，因为来自帝国的水手和旅行者在英国土地上定居。在20世纪，这种移徙模式的发展规模更大，并向全国各地转移。也就是说，来自加勒比海和非洲的黑人移民越来越多地遍布英国，在苏格兰、威尔士、北部和西南部以及码头城市建立社区和社区。鉴于大多数学术著作都通过伦敦的案例来研究这段历史，本项目试图从这一系列当地定居点的角度讲述黑人在英国的生活故事。通过认识，恢复和研究来自全国各地的这种多样性的经验，我们能够讲述一个更多样化，民主和细致入微的黑人英国在现代的历史。为了挖掘和平台这些历史，这个项目汇集了来自格拉斯哥，卡迪夫，利物浦，曼彻斯特，普雷斯顿，伦敦和斯托克波特的地方，社区，黑人历史团体的代表，沿着的还有艾哈迈德·伊克巴尔·乌拉种族中心的档案管理员、亨特博物馆的馆长、青年组织新星组织和曼彻斯特大学的学术历史学家。该项目源于这些社区合作伙伴的想法，建议和要求，他们参加了在曼彻斯特（2022年6月）举行的英国黑人历史本地视角研讨会。因此，这个应用程序是反映了一套独特的需求和当地的黑人社区历史学家在英国各地的感受关注。在计划的网络会议上，成员将分享他们各自的地方研究，使我们能够建立一个多方面的历史，是由地方细微差别，并考虑到不同的经验范围内的英国黑人。兰开夏郡的乡村，古雅，人口稀少的加勒比移民，如利雷·康斯坦丁和C.L.R.詹姆斯与帕丁顿或后来伦敦的布里克斯顿的黑人社区相比？像前者这样的地方在英国黑人的叙事中扮演什么角色？如何强调黑人历史是来自全国各地的，而不是关注其“种族关系资本”，重塑对英国民族本身的理解？通过与当地黑人历史专家的接触，该项目旨在回答这些问题。在将当地黑人历史团体的代表与学术界，博物馆和档案馆的专家聚集在一起时，该项目将创建一个独特的跨部门同事网络。每个网络成员所拥有的专业范围，从口述历史到档案实践，投标写作和媒体表演，意味着将提供一系列特别突出的技能供交流。该网络将组织四个讲习班，每个讲习班将包括一个以技能为基础的会议，一个正在进行的研讨会和一个网络会议。我们还将制作一个编辑的卷，其中包含网络的社区知识分子，活动家，当地历史学家和学者的贡献，以及跨部门合作的报告。

Throughout the modern period, people of African descent have arrived in Britain to establish communities around certain locales. In the nineteenth century, this occurred mainly in the dock cities of Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol and London as sailors and travellers from the Empire settled on British soil. In the twentieth century, such migratory patterns evolved to become bigger in scale and also to devolve across the country. That is, Black migrants from the Caribbean and Africa increasingly spread throughout Britain to establish neighbourhoods and communities across Scotland, Wales, the North and the South-West as well as the dock cities. Whereas most academic works have studied this history through the case of London, this project seeks to tell the story of Black lives in Britain from the perspective of this range of local settlements. By recognising, recovering and studying this multiplicity of experiences from around the country, we are able to tell a more diverse, democratic and nuanced history of Black Britain in the modern era.To unearth and platform these histories, this project brings together representatives of local, community, Black History groups from Glasgow, Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, London and Stockport, along with the archivists of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Centre, curators at the Hunterian Museum, the youth organisation Rising Stars, and academic historians at the University of Manchester. The project arises out of the ideas, suggestions and requests of these community partners, who attended the Black British History Through Local Perspective workshop in Manchester (June 2022). This application is thus reflective of a distinct set of needs and concerns felt by local Black community historians across Britain.At planned network meetings, members will share their research of their respective locales so that we are able to build a multifaceted history of Black Britain that is nuanced by locality and takes account of a diverse range of experiences. How did the rural, quaint and sparsely populated Lancashire of Caribbean migrants like Learie Constantine and C.L.R. James compare to the Black neighbourhoods of Paddington or, later, Brixton in London? What role do places like the former play in narratives of Black Britain? And how does highlighting Black history as emanating from across the country, as opposed to a focus on its 'race relations capitals', reshape understandings of the British nation itself? By engaging with local Black historical experts, this project aims to answer these questions. In bringing representatives of local Black history groups together with experts in academia, museums, and archives, the project will create a unique cross-sector network of colleagues. The range of specialisms held by each of the network members, from oral history to archival practice, bid writing and media performances, means that a particularly salient range of skills will be on offer for exchange. The network will organise four workshops which will each involve a skills-based session, a work-in-progress seminar and a network meeting. We will also produce an edited volume containing contributions from the network's community intellectuals, activists, local historians and academics, and a report on cross-sector collaboration.