WALKING TOUR

Date: Saturday 16 March

Time: 14:00 – 17:00

Start: Nottingham Tourist Centre, NG1 2BY

Finish: The Navigation, NG2 1AA

Difficulty: easy

Distance: 2/3 miles around the city centre

Highlights: local history, Standing In This Place.

Join Zig Zag to learn about the contribution of enslaved African people to the historic development of Nottingham. Though far from Britain’s port cities, Nottingham has strong connections to the transatlantic slave economy. Discover enslavers in unexpected places and famous sites of commerce that you didn’t know thrived from African enslavement. Encounter people of African descent, past and present, who have contested enslavement and its legacies, and learn about their interventions in Nottingham’s commemorative landscape.

The tour is led by historian Dr James Dawkins, former member of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at University College London, and Dr Susanne Seymour, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Slavery at the University of Nottingham.

The cost of this tour is £12 and 75% of the proceeds will be donated to Standing In This Place.

Standing In This Place is an arts and heritage project co-created by sculptor Rachel Carter & the Legacy Makers, in response to the work of the Legacy Makers group Est. 2014 by Bright Ideas Nottingham and the collaborative community-academic Global Cotton Connections project.

It looks to highlight the contributions and connections between white mill workers and black enslaved women uprooted to the Americas, showing how their stories and histories are connected by cotton, sorrow, strength and resilience.

For more information about Standing In This Place click here.