London Socialist Historians Group
28th September
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Socialist Historians to mark Black History Month with a look at what the Tories leave out of history
The London Socialist Historians Group which organises the socialist history seminar at the Institute of Historical, University London, will mark Black History Month on Monday 4th October
Monday Oct 4th 5.30pm Marika Sherwood ‘George Orwell told us that ‘the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their own history’. What has been obliterated from ‘our’ history here in the UK and in what used to be our colonies?’
Register for the seminar here(free on Zoom):
https://www.history.ac.uk/node/8133
Marika Sherwood is one of the most well-known historians working in the area of black history in the UK. She was one of the founders in 1991 of the Black and Asian Studies Association.
Her 2007 book After Abolition, Britain and the Slave Trade since 1807 is an important contribution to black history.
The historians say that as part of the Tories Culture Wars the real history of black and minority ethnic people in the UK is increasingly whitewashed. However historians continue to do serious and important research to discover and recover this important part of Britain’s imperial history and resistance to it.
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