Uncovering York’s Black History Olivia Carpenter
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Discover York’s rich Black history on a fascinating journey spanning nearly 2,000 years - from Roman Eboracum to the 1950s.
Join Olivia Carpenter of the University of York for a historic guided walk as she introduces ten key sites where people of African descent stayed, worked or visited. Starting out with the ancient period and Roman ruins, find out more about this vital but less well-known part of the city’s past.
All sites are within easy walking distance of each other. Please meet at the front gate to Museum Gardens on Museum Street.
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Conversazione at the Social Science Congress at the Assembly Rooms, York, 1864.)
About the speaker
Dr Olivia Carpenter is a Lecturer in Literature at the University of York where her research focuses on Black Studies, Critical Race Theory, and literary history. Her first book, Marriage Interruptus: Black Marriage Interrupted in Domestic Fiction, 1791-1853, examines Black characters in late 18th- and early 19th-century British marriage plots. She completed her PhD at Harvard University in 2021.
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