Activities & news 2017 to 2019
Backwards in time
2019
3 August. Annual John Burns Walk for Battersea & Wandsworth Trades Union Council. John Archer's house to John Burn's house on Clapham Common Northside
21 July. Bookstall at Friends of Norbury Park Fun Day
18 July. Loveless Overton. 18hC Bajan solider and freemason
Talk at International 18thC Studies Conference in Edinburgh
8 July. Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Talk for NHS retired staff group at Croydon University Hospital
6 July. Chaired meeting to set up Norbury History Group, which I will co-ordinate
1 July. Bookstall and panel member at Croydon Windrush Generation event
15-24 June. Bookstall at film festival events organised by Black Stock at David Lean Cinema
22 June. Bookstall at Croydon Windrush commemoration event on North End
26 & 27 June. Bookstall at Whitgift School History Festival
29 June. Bookstall at St Oswald's Church Fair (Norbury)
45 May. Bookstall. May Day event at Ruskin House
4-6 January. Annual 18thC Studies Conference
Papers by me read out on my behalf:
Petitioning Newcastle Corporation in long 18thC
The Princess of Zanfara and Bewick's Kneeling Slave
2018
Wednesday 28 November. Remembering the Soldiers Faith
Faiths Together in Croydon, CVA, 82 London Road, Croydon
Monday 26 November. 6pm . The Big Society in the First World War
Voluntary Action History Society, Senate House
Saturday 24 November. 2.30pm. Women’s Rights to Vote and Learn
Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society. East Croydon URC, Addiscombe Rd
Monday 29 October. Samuel Coleridge Taylor
St. Mary's Church, Beddington
Saturday 10 November. 6.30pm. Croydon's Votes for Women campaign
Croydon Labour Party Suffrage Centenary event
Monday 1 October. Sutton's Slavery Connections
St, Mary's Church, Beddington
Saturday 1 September. Edwardian Roller Skating Boom in Lambeth
Lambeth Archives Open Day - part of Lambeth Heritage Festival
Thursday 21 June. Campaigning for Peace in Croydon since 1816
Talks with Dan Frost as part of Croydon Peace Festival
Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd
Saturday 16 June. Tensions and contradictions within and towards infrastructure organisations
Voluntary Action History Day
Wednesday 30 May. Wandsworth: 18thC Powerhouse
Wandsworth Library as part of Wandsworth Heritage Festival
Monday 26 March 2018. East India Company and Croydon
Coulsdon Rotary
Saturday 31 March. Bookstall
Thornton Heath Action Team CR7 Market Stall Day
Friday 9 March. International Women's Day/Votes for Women
Presentation at Key Stage 2 Assembly, Norbury Manor Primary School
Wednesday 7 March. East India Company and Croydon
Croydon U3A
Saturday 24 February. Publications stall
Croydon Assembly/National Union of Education meeting
Saturday 17 February. Publications stall
Surrey Opera Spring Fair
Wednesday 14 February. Slavery and abolition in Durham
Walk and talk for University students
Saturday 10 February. South Lambeth Stories history walk
for Vauxhall Society and Friends of South Lambeth Library
Wednesday 3 - Friday 5 January 2018. British Society for 18thC Studies Annual Conference
Speaker on Black 'Georgians' Panel 1 and on the orange tradeChair, Black 'Georgians' Panels 1 & 2 & session on Fanny Coker and John Pinney
2017
Thursday 27 November. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Talk at Croydon Rotary Club
Saturday 11 November
Asked to say a few words at the Nubian Jak Community Trust unveiling of a plaque to Cy Grant in Highgate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oXDmjD4HI8
Friday 10 November. Remembrance
Discussions with two Year 4 and 6 classes at Norbury Manor Primary School
Thursday 26 October. 7.30pm. Is Sutton part of Black History?
Talk for Friends of Honeybrook Museum
Honeywood Walk, Carshalton, SM5 3NX
Tuesday 17 October. The Similarities & Differences between Christianity and Islam
Year 5 classes Norbury Manor Primary School
Monday 16 October. Black History Month Assembly
Norbury Manor Primary School
Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 October. Black Women and Leadership in history
Home Office Immigration section diversity officers Black History Month event
Mondays 2 & 16 October & 6 November . Labour Party History
Political education facilitation for Dulwich & Norwood Labour Party
Monday 2 October. Victorians
Norbury Manor Primary School Year 6 Classes
Saturday 2 September. 10.30am-4.30pm. Lambeth Local History Fair
Bookstall at St Leonard’s Church, Streatham High Road, SW16 1HS
Saturday 9 September. 2pm. Wandsworth Town/Wandle Walk
Details to be finalised
Saturday 22 July 2pm Croydon TUC John Burns Walk from his grave in Battersea Rise
Cemetery
17 July. Edwardian Roller Skating
29 June. 7pm. Keen as mustard: An introduction to South Croydon’s heritage
Talk for South Croydon Community Association
St Peter’s Church House, Heathfield Road CR0 1EZ
Part of Croydon Heritage Festival
28 June. The Edwardian Roller Skating Boom
for Norbury Church Women's Fellowship
19 June. 11am. The East India Company and Croydon
Talk at Ashburton Library, Shirley Road, CR9 7AL
Free, but book in advance at 020 3700 1001
Saturday 3 June. Wandsworth Town/Wandle Mouth Walk
Part of Wandsworth Heritage Festival
1 June. Wandsworth 18thC Powerhouse
Talk as part of Wandsworth Heritage Festival
Wandsworth Town Centre Library, Garratt Lane, SW18 - CANCELLED
27 May. Battersea Walk
As part of Wandsworth Heritage Festival
6 May. Battersea Rise Cemetery History Walk
for St. John's Community Centre (Peabody Estate Clapham Junction)
27 April. Introduction to Battersea History
for St. John's Community Centre (Peabody Estate Clapham Junction)
4-6 January. British Society for 18thC Studies Annual Conference, Oxford
Talk: Wandsworth: 18thC Powerhouse
Chaired panel on the Black Atlantic
Organised and chaired roundtable discussion on Black Georgians