Black History Month: Walk Bath’s ‘Uncomfortable’ Past (SOLD OUT)
About
This walk covers Bath’s complex colonial connections. It offers insight into how transatlantic slavery contributed to the splendours of 18th century Bath by bringing to the light how the trafficking and subsequent exploitation of enslaved Africans funded many of Bath’s grandiose neo-Palladian building projects. The walk engages with the city’s heritage from the viewpoint of both those who benefited from slavery and those who revolted or campaigned against it.The walk draws on a walk designed by a group of students at the University of Bath in 2020. A chapter discussing the design of the walk is now available in open access in the recently published book Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes. Look for chapter 12. Mapping Bath’s Uncomfortable Past’ https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epub/10.3828/9781802075885
Location
Outside 44AD artspace (in the square next to Bath Abbey)
Kingston Parade, Bath,
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Black History Month: Walk Bath’s ‘Uncomfortable’ Past (SOLD OUT)
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