Archives & Collections are delighted to announce details of this year’s Chris Upton Memorial Lecture! Our speaker this year will be Dr. Lisa Amanda Palmer (former Central Library alumni!) now Interim Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University.
Lisa will focus on the importance of green spaces – gardens, allotments and parks – using personal photographs, along with archive materials from the Library of Birmingham, to begin tracing a green history of Caribbean communities in the city. Back gardens, allotments and green spaces have played an important role in sustaining a connection to the land for many Caribbean and migrant peoples who live and work in sprawling urban cities such as Birmingham. These narratives and histories are important now because questions of who has access to land, to the pleasures of growing, planting and cultivating has become even more urgent in this period of crisis.
This year, the lecture will be on Monday 7th November in the Heritage Learning Space on level 4 of the Library of Birmingham. It will start at 5.30pm, with doors opening at 5pm. To book your place at the lecture, please visit the booking pages on Eventbrite.
We’ll look forward to seeing you there!
Booking Essential.
Nicola Crews, Archivist
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