“Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth” – Public Lecture by Dr Ryan Hanley

As part of Black History Month 2016, the Citizenship ‘Race’ and Belonging Research Network hosted a public lecture on the history of Portsmouth’s black presence in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The talk, Black Preachers in Georgian Portsmouth by Dr Ryan Hanley, a Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford and was based in part on Ryan’s PhD research as well as new research using local archives and national databases such as the Legacies of British Slave Ownership database (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/). Ryan and I joined Mason Jordan on Express FM’s ‘Portsmouth Breakfast’ show on Monday morning to

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CRaB Conference: Britain in Europe, Europe in Britain.

Britain in Europe, Europe in Britain. A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Conference. Thursday June 22nd & Friday June 23rd 2017 at the University of Portsmouth. Keynote Speaker: Prof Arthur Aughey, University of Ulster The Brexit result of June 23rd 2016 shocked Britain and Europe and has revealed a deep division within the country. In the months following the vote, the media continue to report on an almost daily basis about efforts by the ‘Remainers’ to reverse the referendum result, or on attempts by the ‘Leavers’ to speed up the triggering of Article 50. Tragically, the media also report on an almost daily basis about

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