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The BASA newsletter has been publishing the latest research, archive material and events about Black and Asian History since 1991. Shelley Goffe-Caldeira is the Editor. She, Marika Sherwood and Chris Pereira comprise the Editorial Board. Marika commissions book reviews. From 2009 the newsletter is being published in July, November and March (within the membership subscription year - April to March). To receive the newsletter as a member of BASA or as a newsletter subscriber, see the About BASA page, and click on the links in the left hand column. If you have any articles, book reviews or events that you would like to promote through the newsletter then please email Shelley at editor@blackandasianstudies.org If you want to place an advertisement or a flier in the newsletter please contact BASA's Secretary, Sean Creighton on secretary@blackandasiansstudies.org Over the next few months BASA is planning to enable you to order back copies of Newsletters through the website. Meanwhile if you want to buy back copies please contact the Secretary.
Newsletter 53 (March 2009): Cliff Pereira. Forgotten Asian contributions to Portuguese Geography Shelley Goffe-Caldeira. Remembering Sir Hugh Worrell Springer: Politician, Educator and Man of the People Stephen Bourne. Spreading the Word Historic figure. Samuel Jules Celestine Edwards 1857-1894 plus: historic document, parish records, reviews, published synopses and chapters £3 plus postage
Newsletter 52 (September 2008): Shelley Goffe-Caldeira. Report on the BASA Education Conference Stephen Bourne. Josie Woods: Tap-dancing star of Music Hall Gloria Gordon. Modern British Culture Uncovered: How Race Inequality is Maintained in Britain Caroline Bressey. Catherine Impey and the Anti-Caste Movement. Part one – The Origins of Anti-Caste Marika Sherwood. The Struggle Continues Historic document. Claude McKay. The Yellow Peril and the Dockers Historic Figure. Thomas Latham plus: parish records, reviews, published synopses and chapters £3 plus postage
Newsletter 51 (May 2008) Stephen Bourne. Keep Smiling Through: Black Londoners on the Home Front 1939-1945 Martin Hoyles. Ira Aldridge Room at the Theatre Royal Newcastle Michael Herbert. The Working Class Movement Library Cliff Pereira. We Didn't Talk About It! - A Review of 2007 Shelley Goffe-Caldeira. Scottish Freemasonry and the Williams & Walker Vaudeville Company Arthur Percival. Being British Historic Figure. William Miller 1890-1970 plus: parish records, reviews, published synopses and chapters £3 plus postage
Newsletter 50 (February 2008) Dan Lyndon. Henry Compton pupils visit the site of Walter Tull's death Cliff Pereira. The Cultural Interactions Resulting from the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Arab-Islamic World Reverend Duncan Dormor. Beyond 1807: Telling a Different Story James McCarthy. Selim Aga: New Light on his Life and his Explorations in West Africa Hazel Waters. Remembering Ira Aldridge Hakim Adi. An Examination of the Wider Historical Context of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Historic document. Royal Commission on Population 1949 Historic figure. Leslie Hutchinson (Hutch) 1900-1969 plus: parish records, reviews £2 plus postage
Newsletter 49 (November 2007) Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade Special Edition Allison Edwards. Teaching About the Trade in Enslaved Africans Cliff Pereira. The Shackles of Memory – Interview in Nantes James Robertson. The Case of Joseph Knight David Spence. London, Sugar and Slavery: A New Gallery at the Museum in Docklands Lancaster Youth Group Poetry Lucy MacKeith. Address (at Exeter City Council event 25 March 2007) Arthur Torrington. The Equiano Exhibition Historic figure. Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay 1761-1804 £2 plus postage
Newsletter 48 (April 2007) Colin Douglas. Remembering Ben Bousquet Julia Bush. News Update: Northamptonshire Black History Association Shelley Goffe-Caldeira. Black Atlas – A Celebration of the Lives of Tom Molineaux & Bill Richmond Caroline Bressey. Portraits, People and Abolition – Creating a Trail for the National Portrait Gallery in 2007 The 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade – A What's On Guide Historic document: from West Africa, 22 July 1939: 'Cooperation, not Anti-Whitism' (report on London Conference) Historical figure: Ina Sarah Davies (nee Forbes Bonetta) c.1843-80) plus: news and activities, research news, parish records, reviews (books, articles, journals and film) £2 plus postage
Marika Sherwood has compiled an index of the BASA newsletters from 1991 to 2007
You can download some samples of articles published in the BASA newsletters over the last 17 years:
International Conference on the Siddis of India and the African Diaspora in Asia by Cliff Pereira
A poem in memory of Claudia Jones by Peter Blackman
Community Memories by Liz Braby A Museum Oral History Project with BME communities
And some of the historical figures that have been written about by BASA members:
Ira Aldridge, by Oku Ekpenyon and Jonah Albert, the 'Negro Tragedian' famed for playing Shakespearean roles including Othello and Hamlet in Victorian Britain.
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, by Elizabeth Williams the slave who bought his freedom and published his autobiography 'The Narrative of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw an African Prince' in about 1770.
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
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