LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP

1st-31st May 2023

This exhibition was first displayed at Lancaster City Museum in the summer and autumn of 2023, and we are pleased that it has now travelled to the University Library. It is one of the outcomes of the first phase of the Slavery Family Trees project, funded by a small grant from the charity Necessity (2021-2022), and conducted primarily online during the Coivd-19 pandemic. For this project, LBH collaborated with school children and teachers, refugees and asylum seeker groups, university students and staff, and members of voluntary groups/charities/trusts/museums/heritage orgs and local government. Groups and individuals from these communities undertook historical research, working with pubic databases, local museums and other resources to research 7 families with connections to Lancaster’s 18th century involvement in ‘the slavery business’ (Hall, 2018). The Necessity grant allowed LBH to commission a research coordinator (Sunita Abraham) who worked alongside an advisory team from LBH (led by Imogen Tyler and Alan Rice, with support from Jamie Reynolds, Geraldine Onek, Nick Radburn as well as other members of LBH and local historians and archivists). We worked with the following Lancaster-based groups: 

• Lancaster Royal Grammar School (LRGS)- researching the Gregson family. 
• Lancaster Girls Grammar School (LGGS) – researching the Lindow family. 
• East meets West (women’s group working with refugee and asylum seekers) – researching the Satterthwaite family 
• Cornerstones community faith group on Dalton Square – researching the Bond family. 
• Why is My Curriculum White Campaign (WIMCW) at Lancaster University – researching the Hinde family.
• Priory Church community – researching the Rawlinson family and collaborating with women refugees from East meets West to work on the Satterthwaite family. 
• Judges Lodgings Museum – researching the Gillows family.