Black Georgians
Study day at the Hunterian Museum & the Foundling Museum
Wednesday 22nd October 2008, 10.00-16.00
To mark Black History Month, SI Martin, journalist for ‘The Voice’ newspaper
and author of Britain's Slave Trade (1999), is joined by a team of speakers to
examine some dramatically different experiences of black people living in 18th-
and early 19th-century England. Presentations will be given on subjects
ranging from London’s black street children (a few of whom were admitted to
the Foundling Hospital), the life of Dr Samuel Johnson's servant and friend
Francis Barber, and George Alexander Gratton, a child slave exhibited as a
curiosity because of his skin condition, piebaldism.
This study day will start at the Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and
continue at the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury for the afternoon sessions.
Attendees will have the opportunity to explore both museums on the day, and
will be entitled to free admission to Dr Johnson’s House before 22 November.
Tickets cost £25 (includes light lunch).
To book contact the Foundling Museum on 020 7841 3600.
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of
England, The Foundling Museum,
35-43 Lincoln's Inn
Fields,
40 Brunswick Square,
London, WC2A
3PE
London, WC1N 1AZ
Website:
www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums
Website: www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk
For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits
please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2008 at
http://www.arlis.org.uk/
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