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Nottingham News Centre CIC has received support from the National Heritage Lottery Fund (NLHF) as well as other organisations, partners and individual public donations for a unique project titled Black Miners Museum. The two-year project, based in Nottingham, East Midlands UK, from May 2109- July 2021, will work in collaboration with project partners: Communities Inc. Nottingham the National Coal
02/04/2025
If you are in Cardiff or Swansea 3-9 April 2025, let’s meet up! Take part in the AHI Roadshow, talking all things heritage (careers, interpretation, events etc.) and find out about joining the AHI 50 year anniversary celebrations in Cardiff, 8-10 October 2025. Diolch!
05/11/2024
Mural honouring African Caribbean Miners at former Gedling Colliery goes on display at Gedling Borough Council HQ, in Arnold Nottinghamshire for Black History Month 2024, as featured in the Gedling Eye online magazine.
Why not take a visit? The 'Digging Deep' mini touring exhibition at available to view at the Arnold Civic Centre, Arnot Hill Park, Nottingham Road Arnold Nottingham, NG5 6LU
If you are unable to see the exhibition in person, read all about it here:
Mural honouring African Caribbean Miners at former Gedling Colliery goes on display at council HQ for Black History Month. Artwork celebrating the lives of former miners of African Caribbean heritage who worked at the former Gedling Colliery has gone on display
17/06/2024
16/02/2024
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16/12/2023
Norma Gregory, Honorary Doctorate of Letters recipient for Services to Heritage, Education & Media Arts from the University of Nottingham, my home town university, on the 15th December 2023, where I studied in 2009-2010 as a PGCE student (English teacher training, post-grad) and have since used aspects of this knowledge and experience in my professional practice now as an EDI heritage consultant and educator, leading change to help transform museums, heritage sites across the world and broadcast heritage media production, to become more inclusive, multicultural and diverse learning spaces.
I will continue to lead positive change through heritage, education and the arts, to inspire others on their life journeys towards a more inclusive, equitable society we can and must contribute to, in some way.
Thank you to all those whom I have had the pleasure of working with / liaising with in some way, of my 30+ years of work output/study/impact. I share this award with you. Surreal...
27/06/2023
If you missed ITV Central News programme on Windrush Day 2023. View here
Windrush 75 years: ITV News Central's special programme for the East Midlands | ITV News Thursday 22 June marked 75 years since Empire Windrush brought hundreds of people from the Caribbean to the UK. They were responding to the British governmen...
22/06/2023
Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the HMT Empire Windrush arriving in Britain on 22 June 1948.
In this interview, Newcastle United legend Andy Cole talks about his dad Lincoln who emigrated to the UK from Jamaica in 1957 and worked as a coal miner in Gedling until 1987.
“My father was one of the first,” says Cole. “He wasn’t an individual who would shout about it. But when he passed away, coming up to a year now, I got to find out just how revered my dad was for being one of the pioneers."
Read the full interview here https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/miner-dad-found-best-britain-30264740
Lincoln was one of the men photographed for the Digging Deeper exhibition as part of the Black Miners Project Coal Miners of African Caribbean Heritage. It explored black miners’ migration memories adjusting to life in the UK; finding work in the collieries; teamwork, camaraderie and discrimination; memories of accident, injuries and death at the colliery; the struggle for industrial and personal survival; legacy and life after mining.
We were very proud to be part of the project and host the exhibition in 2020 and share the stories and contribution they made to the coal mining industry.
PLEASE NOTE THIS EXHIBITION IS NOT CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY AT WOODHORN MUSEUM. You can watch an interview with Norma Gregory about the exhibition here https://vimeo.com/468249544
Image credit David Severn
21/06/2023
So please to announce that Black Miners heritage (image/s) from Nottingham News Centre will feature on Piccadilly Lights, London W1 on Windrush Day (22nd June 2023, 8pm) in a new film by the Black Cultural Archive London and CIRCA. Thank you
Watch live at https://circa.art/ and on YouTube https://lnkd.in/eDn_fyEC 22nd June 2023, 8pm
07/06/2023
View another new (hot off the press) educational poster and teaching resource for young people/ all people to find out about the contributions of the 'Windrush Generation' to British industries, past and present, produced/co-created by Norma Gregory designed by artist, Manavi Singhal.
Find out more on Thursday 22nd June, Windrush Day 2023, afternoon hybrid event . Book at https://lnkd.in/edC6Nac7
Places for the evening event available at:
https://lnkd.in/eagJMvnS
Free posters on the day. FREE event (Light Caribbean cuisine refreshments for in person events)
Kindly supported by: Near Neighbours, The Development for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC), The National Lottery Community Fund, supporting partners and the wider public. Thank you