Hello from Britain!

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  • The Black British Herstory Podcast! Subscribe to learn more about the lives of Black British women in the 20th century and beyond. If you would like to support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HellofromBrit
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  • #12 SEASON 1✅
    Aug 19 2022

    Thank you so much for learning along with me, @Seunspeakss, over the past year! Hello From Britain! will be back with Season 2 soon. 


    Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello


    Summer Reads:

    Jordanna Bailkin, The Afterlife of Empire

    Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock, eds., Here To Stay Here To Fight: A ‘Race Today’ Anthology

    Jean Toomer, Cane

    Touré, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?

    Richard Wright, Native Son


    Online Archive to check out:

    Warwick Digital Collection on Britain, Empire and Migration: https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/bem 




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    7 mins
  • #11 SPECIAL EPISODE: WOMEN AND PAN-AFRICANISM pt2
    Jul 29 2022

    🚨SPECIAL EPISODE🚨

    In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about how Pan-African political thought developed in late 20th century Britain.

    Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello

    Further resources:

    6th Pan African Congress: https://snccdigital.org/events/6th-pan-african-congress/

    BLF: https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/listings/region/online-event/the-black-liberation-front-qa/

    Linda Bellos interview: https://www.rainbowjews.com/equality-champion-linda-bellos-proud-to-be-an-african-jewish-lesbian-feminist/

    Organisation of African Unity: https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/organisation-african-unity-oau, https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/organization-african-unity-1963-2002/

    Resolutions of the 7th Pan-African Congress: https://d.lib.msu.edu/ajps/13

    UK ARM Repossession Order: https://i2.wp.com/berniegrantarchive.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ephemera_repossession_large.jpg

    UNESCO, African women, Pan-Africanism and African renaissance: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000235230

    W.E.B. Du Bois' Appeal To The World!: https://www.aclu.org/appeal-world

    Young Historian's Project on the BLF:

    https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/blf-exhibition

    https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/blf-film-we-are-our-own-liberators

    Music Recommendation:

    Grand Kalle, Independance Cha-Cha

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    28 mins
  • #10 SPECIAL EPISODE: WOMEN AND PAN-AFRICANISM pt1
    Jul 24 2022

    🚨SPECIAL EPISODE🚨


    In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about how Pan-African political thought developed in early 20th century Britain. 

    Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello

    Further resources:

    Archive of W.E.B. Du Bois documents: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/collection/mums312

    Horrible Histories Video on Sons of Africa: https://fb.watch/esaGWASaib/

    Short documentary on Amy Ashwood Garvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4SqjgGWNc

    W.E.B. Du Bois 1900 speech: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1900-w-e-b-du-bois-nations-world/

    Frances Willard, Jane Addams, Jesse Daniel Ames, ‘White Women and the Campaign against Lynching’, Counterpoints: The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America: Lynching, Prison Rape, & The Crisis of Masculinity (2001)

    Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism: A History (Bloomsbury 2018)

    Marika Sherwood Lecture on the 1945 Pan-African Congress for Manchester Metropolitan University- https://mmutube.mmu.ac.uk/media/1_fpebqm06

    People’s History Museum on the 1945 Pan-African Congress- https://phm.org.uk/blogposts/africa-speaks-in-manchester-pan-africanism-manchester-and-a-collection-gem/

    Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (Pluto Press 2018)

    RM Burroughs, ‘Savage times come again’: Morel, Wells, and the African Soldier, c.1885-1920’, English Studies in Africa: a journal of the humanities (2016) -https://bit.ly/3ztSohm


    Music Recommendation:

    Miriam Makeba- A Piece of Ground



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    37 mins

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