The Social History Society has awarded the Birmingham People’s History Archive a grant under the BME small grants scheme.
The BME Small Grants Funding Scheme provides grants of up to £1,000 to support Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) historians working in the UK and/or on histories of BME people. The scheme is administered by the Social History Society in partner-ship with the Economic History Society, History UK, History of Education Society (UK), History Workshop Journal, Royal Histori-cal Society, Society for the Study of Labour History and Women’s History Network. It was set up in 2019 in recognition of the under -representation, structural inequalities and racism afflicting UK Higher Education Institutions.
The successful projects from the 2022 round are:
Gaynor Legall for ‘The Heritage & Cultural Exchange, Butetown Community Centre: ‘Tiger Bay – Then and Now’’
Gill Binnie (Lead Volunteer of Friends of Birmingham People’s History Archive) for ‘Commemorating Avtar Jouhl: BPHA Collection’
Saima Nasar (Lecturer in the History of Africa and its Diaspora at the University of Bristol’ for a conference on ‘New Directions in Black Studies’
Mohammed Khan (PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University) for ‘Muhammad Meets Manchester: Documenting Mancunian Experiences of Meeting Muhammad Ali’
Amanda Zhang (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews) for ‘Sissyphobia: Past and Present in China, 1911- 2022’
Nicole Gipson (associate editor of Journal of American Studies) for ‘Welfare Hotels: Race, Gender, and Family Homelessness (1970-1990)
Applications were judged by an independent panel comprised Michael Joseph (University of Cambridge), Miranda Lowe (Natural History Museum) and Jonathan Saha (University of Durham). They noted that they were ‘mindful of supporting historians in different positions, including students, community-based historians, herit-age professionals, and academics’.
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