BHM 2021 Recordings and Archives.
Click the link below to find a collection of recordings of talks and events that took place during Black History Month Scotland 2021.
The Hidden Stories Map
In every city there are many hidden stories. Our buildings, statues and the names we give to places often contain links & clues to past events and forgotten people.
From the 17th century, Scotland was significantly involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Glasgow played an important role in this dark chapter of history. Many of the buildings in Glasgow were built from the profits of slavery. Scotland also features in the story of the fight to end chattel slavery in the 18th century. The Hidden Stories Map will take you on a journey through part of our city & through time, uncovering some of the stories behind our buildings and the spaces between them.
CRER, Cllr. Graham Campbell, Hoskins Architects & Stuco Design
James Watt and Slavery in Scotland
This recent article by Dr. Stephen Mullen explores his work uncovering the role of Scottish inventor James Watt in Transatlantic slavery.
Museum of Me
An exciting online exhibition brought to you by PACHEDU - The School of African Culture and Paisley Museum Creative Learning Team. All the amazing artwork for this exhibition has been created during the ‘Museum of Me’ project by Renfrewshire families exploring and celebrating their African and Scottish identities. You can access the exhibition via the BHM programme on the Renfrewshire Leisure website.
Launching online, Thursday 15th October 2020.
Renfrewshire Libraries
All year access to the diversity collection within the Young Peoples e-book collection.
Colourful Heritage
Colourful Heritage aims to preserve and celebrate the contributions of the early South Asian and Muslim communities and migrants to Scotland. It has created a repository of oral stories, established a dedicated archive and launched a unique exhibition showcasing the community’s journey.
Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century
The Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Britain project has created a searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped.
Historians on Dundas and Slavery
Recording of an online event organised by the Edinburgh Centre for Global History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Amid calls for the removal of Henry Dundas's statue, historians with specialist knowledge of his career came together to discuss and analyse all aspects of his relationship to slavery.
Historic Environment Scotland blog posts on Black History
Collection of articles from Historic Environment Scotland on aspects of Scotland’s Black History, from the Black presence in Roman times to Britain’s first Black school teacher.
This Is Glasgow
This is Glasgow provides a collection of resources exploring and celebrating the legacy of migration to Glasgow. The project used five methods: oral histories, heritage walks, exhibitions, workshops and training. These, in turn, were developed into a book, film and exhibition.
Preserving Family History
Mélina Valdelièvre’s interdisciplinary learning project is designed to help young people develop closer bonds with their relatives, strengthen their sense of identity and gain a better understanding of the past as well as the present.
ACWA book launch videos
Formed in 1988, ACWA (the African and Caribbean Women’s Association) brings together women from Africa, Caribbean and the Diaspora. ACWA has collaborated with Streetlevel Photoworks on two books capturing African and Caribbean women’s experiences of coming to and living in Scotland from the 1950’s to the present day. The videos here document the launch of both volumes.
New Shoots, Old Roots Volume 1 Click here
New Shoots, Old Roots Volume 2 Click here
Projected Identity
Photographer Kim Simpson presents Projected Identity, a collection of portraits created in 2014-2015 of Scottish people who identified with being othered due to societal perceptions of their skin tone. These portraits are lit by anonymously sourced 35mm kodachrome slides shot in Scotland throughout the 1960’s-1970’s. These slides symbolise outdated attitudes which should have no place in a modern Scotland.