LSHH Research Seminar with Dr Onyeka Nubia – England’s History is Our Histories

This is an invitation to join our School of History and Heritage’s Research Seminar Series:

Wednesday 2nd March 5-6pm – LINK
Dr Onyeka Nubia (University of Nottingham)

England’s History is Our Histories

Abstract:

The soundbite of ‘political correctness gone mad’ hides the narrative that there is history ‘out there.’ And it is impossible to tell England’s story, without including multiple voices! History is not his-story, the elite musings of few very powerful-rich, landed gentry who were born in Europe. England’s history is the histories of everyone who has lived or been connected to these islands. One does not have to choose between Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They are all part of this island’s story.

Biography:
Dr Onyeka Nubia (Assistant Professor in History, University of Nottingham) is a pioneering and internationally recognised historian, writer and presenter who is reinventing our perceptions of the Renaissance, British history, Black Studies and intersectionalism. Onyeka is the leading historian on the status and origins of Africans in pre-colonial England from antiquity to 1603. He has developed entirely new strands of British history which includes Africans in Ancient and Medieval England. Onyeka is also an expert on diversity in Tudor, Stuart, Georgian and Edwardian England/Britain.
He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards. He has written over forty articles on Englishness, Britishness and historical method and they have appeared in the most popular UK historical magazines and periodicals. He has also disseminated his research widely, including keynotes presentations at the Houses of Parliament, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. Onyeka has been also a consultant and presenter for television programmes for BBC and Channel 4.

All welcome!

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Story submitted by Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
aliuzzoscorpo@lincoln.ac.uk