Next Phase: MPEF and Welcoming Renée
Co-written by: Amouraé Bhola-Chin and Renée Landell Throughout the lifespan of the Mapping Black London project, our team has been approached consistently by school…
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MBL celebrates Black History Month with Brentford Community
In celebration of Black History Month 2024, we were invited by the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team at London Borough of Hounslow to run…
‘UNFORGOTTEN LIVES’ moves outdoors
Recently, when conversing with a long-time archivist, I learned that up until the late 1990s and early 2000s, archives were seen as a source…
Detectives in an English Stately Home
Upon being invited to Boughton House by the Buccleuch archivist Crispin Powell, we saw first-hand the reality of the prodigious physical spaces that Ignatius…
The Research Process
Teaming up with just one magnifying glass put us in good stead to locate several missing locations and some unsuspected finds. An early success…
Visit from Novelist and Archivist
We were fortunate to be in conversation with Paterson Joseph and Crispin Powell, one which was spurred on by our shared interest in the…