Black Perspectives On Post War 
British History
To celebrate Black History Month, UCL will be holding a conference on the
evening of Friday 20th and all day Saturday the 21st of October 2000. 
The Friday evening event will be held at University College London in the
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre. The Saturday conference will be held at the
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet
Street, London WC1E 7HU. 
This conference focuses on the history of the various peoples of colour who
have migrated to the UK since the war. It will attempt to rescue this
history from the margins to which conventional perspectives have tended, (or
sought), to confine it. In that sense, this is neither Indian, Caribbean nor
African history, but part of British history. 
Booking Formhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/conferences/black/bookfm.htm 



Panels and Provisional Paper Titles :- 	
	Friday 20th October
Panel	
Raimi Gbadamosi 
UCL	A Man Should be Judged by the Colour of His Shirt
J.Cowley 
ICS	'Life in England': A Survey of Vernacular Black Vocal Music in
Britain 1934 - 1954


	Saturday 21st October 
Panel 1	Race, Space and Identity
Caroline Bressey 
UCL	Public History and forgotten black geographies of London
Julia Drake 
UCL	Redefining Identity: Black Caribbean women and community formation
in Brixton and Notting Hill 1958-81
Divya Tolia Kelly 
UCL	Meanings of 'home' to Asian women living in Britain
Dolly Smith Wilson 
Boston College	Dependence, the Labour market and post war immigration
policy
	
Panel 2	Rejection or Resistance
Michael Dawswell 
UCL	Between Cultures: The Afro-Caribbean Struggle to Re-adapt to Island
Life
Sarah Glynn 
UCL	Young Bengalis in Brick Lane - The Last 25 Years
Clive Harris 
Birmingham	The Bearable Whiteness of Being: British National Identity;
Race, Empire and Post-War Migration
Harvard Sitkoff 
UNH	The US Civil Rights Movement's Impact on the British Commonwealth
	
Panel 3	Colonialism and Communism
Hakim Adi 
Middlesex	Communism and Anti-Colonialism amongst African's in Britain
in the '40s and '50s
David Killingray 
Goldsmiths	Failure to Organise: The Last Days of The League of Coloured
Peoples, 1946 - 54
	
Panel 4	'You make the rules we live the life'
Rosemary Mallett 
KCL	From childhood to aging: A Model for Understanding the Health of
People of African-Caribbean Descent
Marika Sherwood 
ICS	The Lawrence Enquiry and Education


Registration and Panel Times:- 		
Friday 20th October		
5: 30 - 6:00pm	Registration	South Cloisters UCL
6:00 - 8:00pm	Panel	Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre UCL
8:00 - 10:00pm	Evening Reception	Eisai Lounge UCL
Saturday 21st October		
9:30 - 9:45am	Registration	Institute of Historical Research (IHR)
9:45 - 11:45am 	Panel 1	IHR
11:45 - 12:45pm	Panel 3 and Panel 4	IHR
12:45 - 1:30pm	Lunch	IHR common room will be providing food and drink at
reasonable prices.
1:30 - 3:30pm	Panel 2	IHR
3:30 - 4:15pm	Winston James 
Keynote Speech	IHR
The conference has been organised with the assistance of: 
Institute of Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical
Research, Senate House, MaletStreet,London WC1E 7 HU.




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