Dear Andy,
What have you done?
Best wishes.
Sean
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From: "Simons, Andy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: BASA Conference 5 June
Hi Sean
Sorry for the delayed response but I've had an accident and will be out of
work for a few weeks. I'll get back to you eventually and sorry for the
inconvenience. I hope to be in shape for the Conference but don't have any
idea right now.
With regards
Andy Simons
Modern British Collections
The British Library
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From: The Black and Asian Studies Association on behalf of SEAN CREIGHTON
Sent: Wed 26/05/2010 09:24
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: BASA Conference 5 June
Your help in advertising BASA's Conference (email, noticeboards, websites,
etc) would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Sean Creighton
BASA Secretary
Black & Asian Studies Association
Conference
Saturday 5 June, 11.30am-4pm
Dept. Geography, University College of London (UCL),
26 Bedford Way, London. WC1H 0AP
Speakers:
Kathy Chater
Indians in parish records
Daniel Whittall
East Indian - West Indian
connections in 1930s London
Marika Sherwood
Padmore et al: the work of the International African Service Bureau 1937 -
1939
Vandana Patel
The Punjab Exhibition and
Community-Heritage-Academia relationships
Julie Begum
Tower Hamlets Bengali Heritage Trail
Bookstall and displays
Cost £8 (non-members) £5 members (inc. lunch)
Further information & to book contact Sean Creighton, BASA Secretary, 020
8640 2014. [log in to unmask]
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Julie Begum
Julie is Chair of the Swadhinata Trust, the project for excellence in
Bengali Arts, Research & Education, based in Brick Lane.
www.swadhinata.org.uk.
Kathy Chater
Kathy is a freelance researcher, writer and historian. She is a member of
the BASA Committee. Her PhD investigating the black presence in 18th century
Britain, Untold Histories. Black people in England and Wales during the
period of the British Slave trade, c. 1660-1807, is published by Manchester
University Press (2009). She is also the author of guides to research for
family history and media production.
Vandana Patel
Vandana is Exhibition Co-ordinator at the Royal Geographical Society. RGS
Exhibitions have included Crossing Continents - the Bombay Africans. See
www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/Exhibition/ba01.hhtm.
Marika Sherwood
Marika is an independent historian and Hon. Research Fellow at the Institute
of Commonwealth Studies. She organises the ICS/BASA British Black & Asian
History Seminars. Her wide ranging publications include After Abolition on
Britain's continued involvement in slavery. She is working on biographies of
Henry Sylvester Williams, organiser of the 1900 Pan African Conference, and
of George Padmore.
Daniel Whittall
Daniel is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway,
University of London, working on a thesis entitled 'Black West Indians and
the politics of empire in Britain, 1931-1948'. He is a BASA Committee member
and is working with David Killingray on producing a BASA publication on the
League for Coloured Peoples.
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