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Breaking the Dead Silence – Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes

Richard White

Richard White

walking-with, uncomfortable presence, social justice 
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Breaking the dead silence frontcover
Breaking the dead silence frontcover

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Colonial Britain Revealed

WAS POSTPONED - New date is Thursday 16 January.

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Tracing the World: On Radhika Subramaniam’s Footprint

Radhika Subramaniam recently published Footprint: Four Itineraries, probing the long history of the footprint’s manifestation in the human imagination.

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On the Resilience of the Dead Silence and the Crisis of Imagination. A walk.

A short walk in a public garden, formerly a private space for the wealthy of the city. Some steps and kerbs. All on hard standing. Working dogs welcome. Registration essential.

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Walking Writers Salon: Colonial Britain Revealed

Richard White co-editor of “Breaking the Dead Silence” in conversation with historian Professor Corinne Fowler be talking about her newly published investigation into Colonial Britain: “Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain.“ One’s attitude to taking a walk in the British countryside might well change once you have read “Our Island Stories”. Corinne Fowler accompanies a

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Is it possible to tread lightly on our world?

A Walking Writers Salon with Radhika Subramaniam Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City where she was also the first Director/Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center from 2009 to 2017. With an interdisciplinary practice as curator and writer, she explores crises and surprises as they emerge in urban

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Diverse and distinctive voices in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol. Timely commentaries, insights and experiences in the memoryscape enriching and transforming an uncomfortable heritage through empathy and creativity. Multiple perspectives from academics, artists, activists and heritage professionals, contribute ideas and strategies towards re-telling obscured stories and getting unheard voices heard.

The first overarching publication focusing on the impact of slavery legacies on the memoryscapes and authorised heritage narratives of Bath and Bristol.

Offers an innovative perspective on a plethora of local interventions seeking to attend to silenced voices and unheard or unfairly represented stories in the memoryscape.

A unique collection of critical commentaries, reflections and case studies from academics, curators, artists, activists, young researchers, and other stakeholders suggesting new strategies to enrich and diversify memoryscapes locally and internationally.

Paperback | 9781802075885 | £34.99 / $59.99 Open Access ebook available. Free to download.
416 pages, 234 × 156 mm

earl-footed, hurdle-footed, club-footed

As in “He’s got feet like an earl-footed turnip” (said of someone who walks with his feet turned out). from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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