Research activity, events and archive

Author Sam Carroll

More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets

Coming soon: available 11 May. For over 100 years, when you’d often have to wait a week to see your photos, film processors used photo wallets – cheery illustrated envelopes – to return your pictures to you. They showed what… Continue Reading →

Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project – verbatim theatre from oral histories

CMNH are forging a new partnership with Star Creative Heritage a Brighton based non-profit organisation set up to preserve community heritage and make it available and accessible to existing and new audiences. Their current project Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage… Continue Reading →

CMNH workshop: Hosting Hybrid Events: CANCELLED

Please note, this event has been cancelled. Organisers will be producing and sending out a step-by-step guide to those who registered. Wednesday the 26th April Online & M2, Grand Parade. Session 1 : 1:30 – 3:00pm Session 2 : 3:30 –… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar: 1968 and After: French Radical Posters and Press at the Crossroads of New Left and ‘Counterculture’ .

1968 and after: French radical posters and press at the crossroads of new left and ‘counterculture’ . Manus McGrogan, IS History Group. Independent Scholar. Wednesday 18th January 2023, 5:30 to 7pm. G4, Grand Parade, City Campus. CMNH Seminar Series: Visual culture,… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar: Reparative vs Repetitive Histories, or When the Post-Colonial and the Post-Socialist Discourse meet in the Realm of Statue War

Reparative vs repetitive histories, or when the post-colonial and the post-socialist discourse meet in the realm of statue war. Dr Andrea Pruchova Hruzova, Institute for Contemporary History, Charles University, Prague. 11am to 1pm. Friday 24th February, 2023. M2 Boardroom, Grand… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar: Futures Past: Africa in the Cold War Photographic Archive

Futures Past: Africa in the Cold War Photographic Archive Professor Darren Newbury (University of Brighton) Wednesday 26th April, 5:30- 7pm, 2023. G4, Grand Parade. CMNH Seminar Series: Visual culture, history, and memory. All Welcome, no need to book, just turn… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar: Neither Forbidden nor Particularly Encouraged or Supported: the Ambivalent Status of Photography during Romania’s Communist Period

Neither forbidden nor particularly encouraged or supported: the ambivalent status of photography during Romania’s communist period Dr Uschi Klein, School of Art and Media, University of Brighton Wednesday 10th May 2023, 5:30 to 7pm (online) Please book here to attend… Continue Reading →

CMNH event: Visual Memory and the Art of Protest: Nicaragua

Visual Memory and the Art of Protest: Nicaragua Centre for Memory Narrative and History, University of Brighton Exhibition: 17th– 21st of October 2022 Atrium Space Grand Parade campus Panel presentation: 16:30, October 19th 2022 Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade. The Exhibition “The… Continue Reading →

CMNH Black History Month: Book Launch 12 October 5.30-7.00 G4

Black History Month Event: CMNH Book Launch. Wednesday 12th October 2023 Time: 5.30-7pm Room G4 Grand Parade, University of Brighton The Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories will be launching two books at this special Black History Month event. Places… Continue Reading →

CMNH Online Seminar: Complex Normalities: Soldier Memories and Politics of the Post- in Northern Ireland

CMNH Occasional Seminar. Annemarie Majlund Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) 19th May, 6pm to 7:30pm (online) Book now The past presence – and present absence – of the British Army in Northern Ireland often reappears in accounts of the island’s transformation… Continue Reading →

Joint book launch, talks and discussion with Dr Julia Winckler and Dr Annebella Pollen.

Joint book launch, talks and discussion with Dr Julia Winckler and Dr Annebella Pollen Thursday 12 May 2022, 17:30-19:00, Room M2, Mezzanine floor, Grand Parade Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by… Continue Reading →

The Centre for Memory Narrative and Histories welcomes new joint Co-Directors

The Centre for Memory Narrative and Histories is delighted to announce its two new Co-Directors: Dr Deborah Madden and Dr. Zeina Maasri. We congratulate them warmly on their achievement and look forward to the development of the Centre under their… Continue Reading →

CMNH and PPA Seminar: Owning My Ancestors: The Slave-owning History of the Dawkins Family, 1664-1833

Dr James Dawkins, Lancaster University Owning My Ancestors: The Slave-owning History of the Dawkins Family, 1664-1833 Thursday February 17th, 6pm-7.30pm. Online. Book here Co-hosted by the Centre for memory, Narrative and Histories and the Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics Seminar Series…. Continue Reading →

Opportunity: Student Social Media Assistant, Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories

The Centre for Memory Narrative and Histories (CMNH) seeks to appoint a University of Brighton postgraduate student as a Social Media Assistant who will help us to build our social media presence to enhance our profile, reach new audiences, develop… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar: Feminist Creative Processes in Transnational Kurdish Communities. Dr Ceren Ozpinar (University of Brighton)

Feminist Creative Processes in Transnational Kurdish Communities Dr Ceren Ozpinar (University of Brighton) 5:30 to 7pm, Wednesday 16th March 2022 (online) Book here Dispossessed and dispersed across the world the unsettling histories and experiences of transnational communities are often transmitted… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar: From the French Foreign Legion to Nazi brutality: narratives of internment, commemorative scripts and the history of the Gurs camp. Dr Scott Soo (University of Southampton)

From the French Foreign Legion to Nazi brutality: narratives of internment, commemorative scripts and the history of the Gurs camp. Dr Scott Soo (University of Southampton) Wednesday 25th May 2022. Details about joining this online seminar will be emailed out… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar: Memory, migration and conflict – Journeys from the north of Ireland to Britain during the Troubles. Dr Fearghus Roulston and Professor Graham Dawson (University of Brighton)

Memory, migration and conflict – Journeys from the north of Ireland to Britain during the Troubles. Dr Fearghus Roulston and Professor Graham Dawson (University of Brighton) 5:30 to 7pm, Wednesday 16th February 2022 (online) Details about joining this online seminar… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar: Refugee Histories, Representation and Records. Paul Dudman (UEL Archives)

Refugee Histories, Representation and Records: Counter-Narratives of the Refugee Archive and Empowered Collaboration – a Case Study of the Living Refugee Archive. Paul Dudman (University of East London Archives) Cancelled due to illness. Details about joining this online seminar will… Continue Reading →

CMNH Seminar. Dr Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck College) (B)ordering Britain: Law, race and empire

  Wednesday 20th October 2021, 5:30 to 7pm. Online. Dr Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck College, University of London) (B)ordering Britain: Law, race and empire In this seminar Dr Nadine El-Elany will be discussing her book (B)ordering Britain: law, race and empire… Continue Reading →

CMNH Online Event: Correspondences: a conversation about art, memory and heritage.

15th June 2021, 2pm to 4:30pm. Invitations to join this event online will be shared a couple of days before to those who have registered. Book a place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/correspondences-a-conversation-about-art-memory-and-heritage-tickets-153624921275 Please note: we will be recording the Panel presentations but… Continue Reading →

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