Links
- Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of York, Summer School, 2-6 July 2007: Fighting slavery, past, present and future, 1807-2007
Contact: Lesley Booth - 01904 434625; email: lcb5@york.ac.uk - University of York Public Lectures, February-March, 2007: Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the Modern World
Contact: Sarah Mitchell - 01904 434633; email: slm7@york.ac.uk
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~hist35/abolitions/links_publect.html - The 2007 Morrell Lecture on Toleration
(will be given by the writer and broadcaster, Caryl Phillips on 1 November 2007)
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/morrell/addresses.htm - City of York Events to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.
Further Details at: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~hist35/abolitions/links_citylect.html - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography pages on slavery and abolition:
http://www.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/freeodnb/magazine/slavery/
Related Events
- 16 January 2007, 8.00pm: Historical Association, York branch
Professor James Walvin, 'Why did the British abolish the slave trade'
Lecture room P/L001, University of York, Heslington campus
Further details from: eroyle@eroyle77.freeserve.co.uk
- Chawton House Library/University of Southampton conference, 16-17 March 2007, 'Imagining Transatlantic slavery'. Further Details (Abode .pdf)
- Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, 11-13 July, 'Free at Last? An interdisciplinary conference to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the end of the British Atlantic slave trade'. Call for Papers (Adobe .pdf | Microsoft Word .doc)
- The Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool. Further Details: http://www.liv.ac.uk/history/research/CSIS.htm
- The Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery & Emancipation (WISE), University of Hull. Further Details: http://www.hull.ac.uk/05/wise/index.html
- Anti-Slavery International: Join the Fight for Freedom. Further Details: http://www.antislavery.org/2007/about.html