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

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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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Booklaunch for Lexie Scherer’s Children, Literacy and Ethnicity

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On 8 April 2016 one of CRaB’s members, Lexie Scherer, from the University of Portsmouth’s School of Education and Childhood Studies, launched her book Children, Literacy and Ethnicity: Children Reading the Primary School at the university’s local branch of Blackwell’s. Professor Matthew Weait, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities andSocial Sciences, spoke about the importance of books and bookshops generally, about the importance of children’s reading and literature, and about his pride in a colleague having conducted and published such important research. Lexie then introduced the book, thanking the children involved in her research – mostly ethnic minority and refugee children

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Citizenship advice event

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On 18 September 2016 CRaB teamed up with local migrant advocacy and support group Friends Without Borders to provide free immigration law advice for anyone concerned with their status in the UK following the ‘Leave’ vote in June’s EU referendum. Advice was provided by three qualified advisers in the form of a 45 minute talk followed by one-to-one advice sessions. Issues covered included qualifying for residency status, how to obtain permanent residence, and how to obtain citizenship. The overall advice given was that those potentially affected shouldn’t worry, but that ensuring they were qualified according to the UK’s interpretation of

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