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‘They just ignored my tears, they ignored my unhappiness’ Karen Hanrahan, Principal Lecturer in the School of Education and doctoral student with the Centre for Memory Narrative and Histories, conducted research through oral histories with her own mother and other nuns… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Unveiling of blue plaque to commemorate C.L.R. JAMES in Southwick The Southwick Society will be unveiling a blue plaque to commemorate the late, great black Trinidadian cricket writer and revolutionary historian C.L.R. James (1901-1989) on Friday 17 March 2023… Continue Reading →
Recovering the hidden multicultural history of the University of Brighton and its forerunner institutions This collaborative archival project aims to recover the hidden presence and experience of Black and Asian people, as well as other racialised ethnic minorities – both… Continue Reading →
CMNH is really pleased to welcome Dr Manus McGrogan, historian, researcher, oral historian and political activist. Manus will be facilitating two oral history workshops that draw on his research and activism, as well as presenting a paper at the Centre’s… Continue Reading →
We are really pleased to welcome Professor Forkert, who joins CMNH as VRF for 2022-23. Kirsten Forkert is a researcher, teacher and activist. She is based at the Birmingham Institute of Media and English at BCU, where she’s also… Continue Reading →
CMNH is delighted to announce the launch of a new work in progress seminar that’s open to all members and other interested researchers. The aim of our work in progress seminar is to open up a space where ideas and… Continue Reading →
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 →
We are delighted to announce the publication of Picturing Ghosts: Memories, Traces and Prophesies of Rebellion in Postdictatorship Chilean Film by former CMNH member and visiting research fellow Struan Gray. Picturing Ghosts is published with Peter Lang as part of the Cultural… Continue Reading →
We are delighted to announce the publication of Belfast punk and the Troubles: An oral history by CMNH member Fearghus Roulston. Belfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to our co-director Dr. Zeina Maasri who has been awarded the AHRC – Research, Development and Engagement Fellowships for her project ‘Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications’ starting in October 2022 and extending to July… Continue Reading →
Congratulations to CMNH Steering Group member Uschi Klein for being awarded the University of Brighton’s Rising Stars (2022-23) for her project, entitled: Resisting socialist realities through vernacular photography in communist Romania (1947-1989) Romania was one of the most severe totalitarian dictatorships… Continue Reading →
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 →
We are delighted to announce the publication of Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917 a new book by CMNH member Christian Høgsbjerg co-edited with David Featherstone and Alan Rice and appearing as part of the series Racism, Resistance… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
