Time: 12:00 - 1:45pm
This live webinar brought together three emerging researchers on Black British History.
The panel, chaired by Dr Rob Waters (School of History, QMUL) discussed their current research and touched on their experiences of studying Black British History in the context of Black Lives Matter and COVID-19.
Panel:
Deanna Lyn Cook (History Hotline Podcast)
Deanna is currently finishing her MA dissertation titled: ‘We cannot agree to accept coloured women for service in this country’. Caribbean Women in Britain, 1939 -1990, as part of a Masters in Social Research: Economic and Social History at the University of Birmingham. She recently launched a weekly podcast called 'The History Hotline' where she discusses events and individuals that have shaped Black history in Britain.
Olivia Wyatt (Young Historians Project)
Olivia Wyatt is a Masters's student at the University of Leeds whose current research focuses on ‘community’ and African-Caribbean women’s activism in Leeds c.1970-1980s. She is a member of the Young Historians Project - a non-profit organisation that trains young historians of African descent and works on projects that document neglected aspects of Black British history. She co-founded From Margins to Centre?: An undergraduate conference on marginalised histories - an academic space for undergraduate students across Britain to present papers on the intersectional histories of the LGBT+ community, disability, women, and Black and Asian people.
Satya Gunput (Birkbeck, University of London and Hisnameissatya blog)
Satya Gunput is a doctoral student in History at Birkbeck, University of London, funded by the Bonnart Trust. His research focuses on race, ethnicity, and the afterlife of the Empire in 1970s Britain: specifically the different ways that New Commonwealth migrants and their children articulated new ways of belonging in Britain. His work has been published in History Workshop Online and Twentieth-Century British History.
Chair:
Rob Waters (Queen Mary University of London)
Rob Waters is a lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London. His book, Thinking Black: Britain 1964-1985 was published in 2019 by the University of California Press.
A recording of this event is available on our YouTube Channel.