Author: Imogen Tyler
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Lancaster Girls Grammar School and the Slavery Family Trees Community Project
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: Harry Yearnshire (Head of History, Lancaster Girls Grammar School) Alongside four students from Lancaster Girls Grammar School (LGGS) students – Jasmine Patel, Emma Chandler, Emily Yates and Bella Tyler – that have been involved with the Lancaster Black History Group (LBHG) Slavery ‘Family Trees’ research project have benefited…
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Narrative threads: textiles, art and history
Originally posted on Revolutionary Films: Cycling and Cinema: In the course of the research I did for my book,?Cycling and Cinema, one of the most interesting sources I came across was the 1895 volume?A Wheel within a Wheel, by American academic, teacher and campaigner, Frances A Willard. As I’ve mentioned before in this blog, inspired…
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Social Abjection, Disposable Lives and the Politics of Disgust
Social abjection is a ‘revolting concept’ which names but also has the capacity to trouble the symbolic and material forms of violence it describes. It is by employing revolts against abjection as a map or guide that Revolting Subjects attempts to breach open the dustbin of history. The insurgencies of those designated as abject— enable us to…
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‘Hanging Town, Haunted City: Researching Connected Sociologies of Colonial Capitalism in Place’ (archived from December 2021).
Annual Lecture for North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership, Professor Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University In June 2020, hundreds gathered in Lancaster’s Dalton Square to participate in a vigil in response to the Black Lives Matter uprisings. Over the weeks that followed, the protests focused on Lancaster ‘s St George’s Quay, (where Lancaster Slave Ships…
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Slavery Family Trees Exhibition at Lancaster University Library 1-31st May 2003
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: This exhibition was first displayed at Lancaster City Museum in the summer and autumn of 2023, and we are pleased that it has now travelled to the University Library. It is one of the outcomes of the first phase of the Slavery Family Trees project, funded by a…
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Doing Anti-Racism. With Imogen Tyler, Geraldine Onek and Jasmine Patel
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: An LBH Podcast How are racism and stigma power linked? How can education empower us to face the past and tell new stories? And why must we break historical silences? Sociologist Imogen Tyler talks to fellow activists from Lancaster Black History Group, formed after a Black Lives Matter…
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Revolting Subjects Redux
Revolting: Verb: The action of revolt; apostasy; rebellion, insurrection; Adjective: That [which] evokes revulsion; repulsive, disgusting. Noun: That which is revolting; revoltingness. (abridged from the Oxford English Dictionary, 2012) A decade ago I published my first sole authored book, Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (2013). The forms of social violence, disenfranchisement,…
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My New Website
It feels fantastic to be launching a new website today featuring some of my work from over the last decade (and more!). During the pandemic years I was far too busy as a Head of Department at my University, as a mum and as a carer to elderly parents to maintain a website, so I’m really…
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Imagined Portraits — Lela Harris & Imogen Tyler in conversation
Event at Lancaster Judges Lodging Museum Lancaster, Sat 25 march – click here to book for online or in person In 2022 Lela Harris was commissioned by The Judges’ Lodgings Museum to create a set of portraits of real Black individuals from Lancaster’s history whose given names alone we know. Imogen Tyler will discuss with…
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Connor Sparrowhawk: the erosion of accountability in the NHS
Imogen Tyler. Re-posted from Open Democracy. Originally published on 4 February 2016. “For me, it’s not a question of saying the NHS is ‘safe in my hands’. Of course it will be. My family is so often in the hands of the NHS. And I want them to be safe there. Tony Blair once explained…
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