African and Indian People in Rural Britain
This week you will study archival evidence of African and Indian people on country estates in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England. You will also consider how their presence might be researched, explored and represented at historic houses today. This research not only gives a glimpse of the people who have otherwise been left out of the historical account but it also allows British people of colour to connect with this history.
Watch this interview with Laurence Westgaph, political activist and television presenter, on black presence in North West England.
Country Houses and the British Empire: How Imperialism Transformed Britain’s Colonial Countryside
Country Houses and the British Empire: How Imperialism Transformed Britain’s Colonial Countryside
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