Perhaps Miller's study could include some contextual information about Akyaaba Addai Sebbo, who brought Black History Month to the UK in 1987. He chose October as it represents a time of tolerance & conciliation in African society. With 1987 the centenary of Marcus Garvey's birth, Akyaaba Addai Sebbo, then a Greater London Council (GLC) employee, promoted, with the help of Bernie Grant & the GLC, Britain's first Black History Month event in London that year. BHM’s popularity was boosted by an independent inquiry headed by Lord Gifford & funded by Liverpool City Council, which in 1989 published a preliminary report into race relations in Liverpool in the wake of the unrest in the Toxteth area of the city. Entitled Loosening the Shackles, the Report criticized the Liverpool Maritime Museums' 1984 exhibition on the Port of Liverpool for glossing over the city's role in the slave trade, & concluded that Liverpool's museums & public institutions, when they present Liverpool's history, should give a full & honest account of the involvement of black people in the city.
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Angela Allison, Coventry UK
"I know the one thing we did right,
was the day we started to fight.
Keep your eyes on the prize, Hold on!"
---- Malcolm Dick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A MA dissertation is a small-scale exercise - only part of a taught course. It is based on a few comparative case studies conducted over a relatively small time frame. It would be unreasonable and impossible to expect a MA student to look at any more than a small sample of institutions, especially if the student expects to visit these institutions and talk to users and employees as part of their study.
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> I think we should welcome the fact that the subject of engagement with heritage is being explored by a student on a course which is designed for heritage professionals.
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> It will be interesting to see what the student finds out.
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