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The Commissioned Writers PodcastRURAL RACISM PROJECT- Dr Viji KuppanDr Viji Kuppan is the Research Associate at The Centre for Hate Studies-School of Criminology & School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Visiting Research Fellow Leeds Beckett University Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. By recruiting, training and working alongside 20 community research partners from minority ethnic backgrounds, the project generated new, co-produced knowledge about the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced within the English countryside. Dr Viji Kup...
2024-12-0805 minThe Commissioned Writers PodcastRURAL RACISM PROJECT- Dr Viji KuppanDr Viji Kuppan is the Research Associate at The Centre for Hate Studies-School of Criminology & School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Visiting Research Fellow Leeds Beckett UniversityDespite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. By recruiting, training and working alongside 20 community research partners from minority ethnic backgrounds, the project generated new, co-produced knowledge about the nature, extent and impacts of racism experienced within the English countryside. The English countryside is enduringly represented as a rural...
2024-12-0808 minThe Commissioned Writers PodcastRURAL RACISM PROJECT-Dr Viji KuppanDr Viji Kuppan is the Research Associate at The Centre for Hate Studies-School of Criminology & School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Visiting Research Fellow Leeds Beckett University Despite the significant growth of research into issues of ‘race’ and racism, most investigations focus on urban areas of significant diversity. Consequently, the experiences of people from minority ethnic backgrounds living in and visiting rural spaces have remained largely ‘hidden’. This project seeks to ‘re-story’ our understandings of life in the countryside by using evidence to unpack and transform old narratives and by addressing skewed perceptions of rural space...
2024-12-0808 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastRAJ PAL AND SON KABIRCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.Raj Pal and son ! https://uk.linkedin.com/in/raj-pal-65898924 … is an advisor at the National Trust and Member of Inclusive histories workin...
2021-07-0608 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastKAREN ONOJAIFE- StetCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Karen Onojaife - https://karenonojaife.com/Her work has previously been long listed for the Bridport Short Story and the Fish Short Story competitions. Her novel Borrowed Ligh...
2021-07-0510 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastPETER KALU- The Richard Watt StoryCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Pete Kalu: http://www.peterkalu.com/cvbio/Story weaver, storyteller, novelist, poet and researcher for eight Manchester Museums bicentenary of the abolition of the trade in slaves rese...
2021-06-3010 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastMAHSUDA SNAITH -Waste not, want not- kedleston hallCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Mahsuda Snaith: https://mahsudasnaith.com/is a writer of novels and short stories. Her debut novel ‘The Things We Thought We Knew’ (Black Swan) was released in 2017 when she was...
2021-06-2007 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastMALACHI MCINTOSH- _Imperial Homes-Calke AbbeyCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.Malachi McIntosh is editor and publishing director of Wasafiri. He previously co-led the Runnymede Trust's award-winning Our Migration Story project and spent four years as a lecturer in post...
2021-06-1707 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastAYANNA GILLIAN LLOYD- The Shadow ManCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Ayanna Gillian Lloyd: https://ayannagillianlloyd.com/…. is a writer from Trinidad & Tobago. Her work has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Callaloo and Anomaly. She is a g...
2021-06-1706 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastANDRE BAGOO - Litany for two boys at Dyrham Park EnglandCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Trinidad and Tobago’s award winning poet Andre Bagoo https://www.andrebagoo.comreads from his work Litany For Two Boys at Dyrham Park, England and talks to Kevin...
2021-06-1604 min
The Commissioned Writers PodcastHANNAH LOWE -The Chinese WallpaperCommissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians.The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard.Hannah LowePoet and academic Hannah Lowe www.hannahlowe.me reads from her work DAZZLING BLUE and talks to Kevin Ncube @ColonialCountr1 about her experience of rese...
2021-05-2704 min