O Seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados em História, intitulado "Rethinking the long 19th century: Black British History Methodologies", será apresentado por Caroline Bressey, da University College London. 

O evento terá transmissão online, através do link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/97235218633?pwd=ZzMwdU81dzlraDlKRVF2ZngvazcxZz09 

--- Mais informação sobre Caroline Bressey--- 

Caroline Bressey is a Reader in Historical and Cultural Geography at UCL in London.  Her research focuses upon recovering the lives lived by individuals who made up the Black presence in Victorian Britain, especially London, alongside Victorian anti-racism communities.  She is also interested in and the links between contemporary identities and the diverse histories of London as represented in heritage sites in Britain, and has co-curated exhibitions with the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of London Docklands and Tate Britain.  Her first monograph, Empire, Race and the politics of Anti-Caste (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013; winner Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2015, Women’s History Network Book Prize, 2014)) examined the anti-racist reading community around Anti-Caste (1888)  an anti-racist paper established by Quaker Catherine Impey and also run by Britain’s first Black editor, Celestine Edwards.  Her current research project is exploring multi-ethnic working-class communities of Victorian England.

--- Resumo do artigo "Rethinking the long 19th century: Black British History Methodologies" ---

In this paper I will be reflecting upon my work researching the Black presence in Victorian and Edwardian England, a period that sits within the stretched boundaries of the long nineteenth century.  My work has drawn on a wide range of archives from prisons and asylums to royal castles and has included working with text, paper and photographic prints.  Over the twenty years that I have been undertaking this work, the digital turn has made a material difference to the ability to surface people ‘of colour’ in British archives.  However, many complexities remain, particularly around the theme of absence, and really being able to ‘know’ those we find in the archives.  I will be considering these methodological concerns in relation to several key, often overlapping themes within my work: Proof of presence; Lived experience; Micro histories & ‘community’; Class and gender; Political activism; Geographies of experience/belonging; absence in the archives.