Nottingham Black Archive

Description

Nottingham Black Archive (NBA) is an independent, community-led heritage organisation founded in 2010, growing out of an idea first raised in 2009 for a resource that would make Nottingham's Black history available to the wider public. Its aim is to research, collect and preserve Black history, heritage and culture in Nottingham from the earliest times to the present day. Under the mission "Keeping the past in the present", the archive collects, preserves and celebrates the histories of people of African descent in Nottingham, and runs a programme of exhibitions and events that share the diversity of cultures originating from Africa and the Caribbean. The collection spans five decades and includes personal papers, organisational records, books, ephemera, film, photographs and a growing body of oral histories, many recorded with the first generation of Africans and Caribbeans to settle in Nottingham; it also holds articles, newsletters and political letters dating back to the 1940s, and a reference library on the Black presence in Britain, migration, post-colonial Jamaica, pan-Africanism and late twentieth-century radical politics. The collection has been amassed by volunteers from the Black community and supports NBA's education and outreach work, delivered by a Learning Team with a Council of Elders and offered to schools, families, young people, community organisations and adult, further and higher education. NBA has taken part in externally funded projects, including First World War commemoration work funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) with the Centre for Hidden Histories, a mural project funded through the AHRC Connected Communities programme, and the Community Capsule project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Its projects have included oral-history, intergenerational, exhibition and public-art work, often delivered in partnership with local and national cultural and research organisations, and it aims to be a leading institution for Black heritage and culture in Nottingham.

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Offers funding

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Founding year

2010

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Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R)

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Nottingham

Partner Universities

Nottingham Trent University

Additional Partnerships

Centre for Hidden Histories; Renaissance One; Nottingham Photographers' Hub; Afro-Caribbean National Artistic Centre (ACNA); New Art Exchange; Autograph ABP; AHRC Connected Communities Programme