Simon P. Newman
Miranda Kauffman
Miranda Kauffman
'Slavery was as real and present in London as it was in the colonies. So, too, was resistance by the enslaved'
Professor Simon P Newman is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of Glasgow and author of ‘Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London’ published in 2022.
Miranda Kauffman
Miranda Kauffman
Miranda Kauffman
'Because the best stories are true stories'
Currently working on her second book 'Heiresses: The Caribbean Marriage Trade'
Miranda Kauffman is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Her first book, Black Tudors: The Untold Story, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in 2018.
Richard Nevell
Photo credit: Disruptive Media Learning Lab
Programme Coordinator WIKIMEDIA UK
'The information skills taught through this activity will be useful to pupils throughout secondary and higher education and I am delighted that there are schools and individuals who have developed the Sankofa London Schools Project to address such an important topic area. This is the kind of project I would very much like to see taken up by schools and local authorities. ’
Fulham Palace
Thanks to a new collaboration, participants in the Sankofa London Schools Project are now invited to explore an exhibition and trail looking at physical and spiritual acts of RESISTANCE @Fulham Palace