East End History in An Object – Communities of Liberation Edition

East End History in An Object – Communities of Liberation Edition Episode 2Content warning: This episode and the sources it describes include content and language that may be triggering, inaccurate, racist and offensive.In this episode we look at a library collection, The Gentlemen’s Magazine – Reference Number LC1030. A published bound periodical featuring articles on current affairs, we focus mainly on an article about Phillis Wheatley and her poetry published in 1773. Our guest speaker Dr Montaz Marche (PHD researcher and Historian on Early Modern African Women in London) explores how this source can be used to understand society’s attitude to enslavement and African Peoples in the 17th & 18th Centuries. Communities of Liberation is a historical research and public art project which aims to increase awareness of the long history of the African presence in the borough of Tower Hamlets, by focusing specifically on excavating and sharing stories of individuals who lived here in the 17th and 18th centuries. Local History (ideastore.co.uk)You can search descriptions to our collections on our online catalogue Tower Hamlets CalmView (thcatalogue.org.uk)Also explore The London Archives Project Switching the Lens - Rediscovering Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous Heritage, 1561 to 1840.The London Archives Collection Catalogue (lma.gov.uk)Follow us on Instagram @towerhamletsarchivesSign up to the Newsletter London Borough of Tower Hamlets (govdelivery.com)Thank you to Dr Montaz Marche (PHD researcher and Historian on Black Women in Early Modern London)Interviewing & sound editing by Genova Messiah (Engagement & Learning Officer)Music: Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges: String Quartet Op 1 No 1 in C Major played by a quartet from the London String Network: Simon Roer, Achim Schwenk, Jamie Udagawa and Richard Wiltshire