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    • Work with Shades of Black (2021-present)
      • Meeting Windrush (2023-present)
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    • Lodge Hill Cemetery and Warfare
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Boy looses cleaver cartoon
Hear HereNews
28 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

Hear Here Bertha Ryland

Birmingham suffragette Bertha Ryland inspired women taking part in Hear Here Her story. Born in Edgbaston in 1882, a stone’s

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Amazing detail in the tactile cloak
Hear HereReport
27 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

16 Days uncloaking violence against women

Violence against women stops us all being free and living the lives we choose. We began 16 days of activism

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Malala Yousafzai By 内閣官房内閣広報室 - kantei.go.jp – ユスフザイ女史による表敬及び共同記者発表, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=104706553
Hear HereReport
22 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

Hear Hear Malala Yousafzai

‘Proud Brummie’ Malala Yousafzai inspires women whose stories, through Hear Here Her story, will be contributed to our Archives within

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Ida B Wells portrait
Hear HereReport
21 November, 2023 Marcus Belben

Hear Here, Ida B Wells

For Hear Here Her Story we were inspired by Ida B Wells. At the unveiling of her blue plaque at

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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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