Category: Lancaster Slavery History
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Seeking Freedom: Connected Sociologies in Collaboration with Lancaster University
On October 27th I am collaborating with the Connected Sociologies Curriculum and colleagues in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, in a one day workshop “Who do we think we are?”. This workshop for educators and students (16+) on race, migration and belonging in the UK. It foregrounds approaches to these topics that are attuned…
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Imagined Portraits: Lela Harris in Conversation with Imogen Tyler
As part of Litfest 2023, I had a discussion with Lela Harris. In this video, we discuss the six paintings Lela created for the ‘Facing the Past Project’ that sees imagined portraits of known Black Lancastrians hanging in the Judges’ Lodgings Museum alongside portraits of prominent eighteenth-century Lancastrians involved in the Atlantic trade in enslaved…
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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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Black Lives Matter and Legacies of Slave Ownership in Lancaster: the Bond’s and the Booker Brothers in Guyana
Imogen Tyler. Reposted from Lancaster Black History Group. Originally published on 14 August 2020. This is a photograph of Malena and Temi, both pupils at a local school, participating in a Black Lives Matter Protest on the steps of the Town Hall in Dalton Square, Lancaster, in June 2020. The photograph was taken by their…
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Decolonising Lancaster: a Preliminary Resource List for local teachers and community groups working on Lancaster’s Slavery and Plantation histories
This photograph depicts the Rawlinson’s Family Memorial Grave Stone, which sits just outside the front of Lancaster Priory and was defaced in June 2020, as part of Black Lives Matter Protests in Lancaster. Rev. Canon Chris Newlands commented on the defacement of this memorial “We can’t remove our history, but we want to make sure the city…
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‘Colonise at home!’ Paupers, Serfs, Slaves and the making of the English State
I am continuing to blog some extracts from my new book, of Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality. I have chosen this extract as it is also one of the starting points for my current project on “Decolonising Lancaster” and the histories of slavery and plantation labour which shaped this small city in Lancashire. This extract…
Professor Imogen Tyler 