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    • Work with Shades of Black (2021-present)
      • Meeting Windrush (2023-present)
      • The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (2022)
    • Lodge Hill Cemetery and Warfare
      • Field of Remembrance (2017-2019)
      • Untold Stories (2016)
    • Hear Here Her Story (2023-2024)
    • Represent (2018-2022)
    • Stories from the Mill (2014)
    • Paganel Archives (2012-present)
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The Pageant of Birmingham 1938
Hear HereReport
20 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

A ‘Cloak of Power’ for Ophelia

During Hear Here workshops this year we explored representations of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in The Shakespeare Memorial Library. We

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Hear Here Her Story Post 25th November event
Hear HereNews
15 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

Hear Here Her Story

Come and join us to celebrate women and their stories 2 to 4pm on Saturday 25th November 2023 Hear Here

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Mrs. McGhie-Belgrave MBE talks to children at Corpus Christi RC Primary School
ReportShades of BlackWindrush
14 September, 2023 Marcus Belben

Windrush Day and Black Birmingham History

“Black History doesn’t just happen on ‘Windrush Day’ or in ‘Black History Month’, so why’s it important we mark it?”

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Chatting about Windrush in Handsworth Library
Hear HereRecords at RiskReportShades of BlackWindrush
31 August, 2023 Marcus Belben

Saving stories to share stories at risk

Our recent work with Friction and the Library of Birmingham has been underpinned by Archives – exploring, documenting and creating

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John Russell with MP Tahir Ali at York supplies for the launch of York Supplies Community Cooperative
News
19 August, 2023 Marcus Belben

Investing in the future York Supplies

It’s great to be a part of a new Cooperative in Kings Heath – York Supplies Community Cooperative, and now’s

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NewsShades of BlackWindrush
23 June, 2023 Marcus Belben

Meeting Windrush in Handsworth

24th June 11am Handsworth Library with Mrs. McGhie-Belgrave MBE From Paradise to Reality

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Mrs Eunice McGhie-Belgrave, thanks photographer Vanley Burke
NewsShades of BlackWindrush
8 June, 2023 Marcus Belben

Meeting Windrush

People’s Heritage Co-operative are delighted to be working with Shades of Black and all the Windrush 75 projects across Birmingham

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Hear Here
Hear HereNews
31 May, 2023 Marcus Belben

Hear Here, Ophelia

Great to be working with Everything to Everybody, Friction Arts, Library of Birmingham funded by Arts Council and Heritage Lottery,

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Talking Drums festival at the Edge, Digbeth with Friction Arts
NewsRecords at RiskReport
29 May, 2023 Marcus Belben

Records no longer at Risk

Thanks to funding from The National Archives we are working closely with Friction to save materials and records of their

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News
11 April, 2023 Marcus Belben

Social on 26th April

We’d like to get everyone together to share projects and chat. Please join us on Wednesday 26th April from 6pm at

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Contact us via e-mail at rachel@peoplesheritagecoop.uk

You can also follow us on Twitter at @PHCooperative where we tweet regularly about our work, projects of interest happening in and around Birmingham as well as the occasional historical nugget.

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