In which there are Black histories, women's histories, male gazes, and police stop and... tweet
- Black History Month: men working on a locomotive, possibly transport in a wartime ordnance factory, 1940s-50s.
- "Canary girls": on the subject of wartime factory workers, I note that the women workers at Rotherwas munitions factory, and especially the 22 people who died in an air raid in 1942, will be memorialised with a history project. There are, of course, already limited memorials for Chilwell (134 dead, in 1918) and Barnbow (35 dead, in 1916) amongst others (individual deaths from health and safety failings and long term consequences were much higher in the industry in general, obv).
- Helping the police with their... social media. I was out for a stroll around town and was stopped by a police officer who asked me if I'd take a phonecam photo of her so she could tweet it on the local police station's twitter feed. Why, yes, I do feel odd about helping the police, especially this particular police force, with their enquiries PR. It also occurred to me that it'd be an excellent wheeze for acquiring partial fingerprints from a suspect, lol.
- Too much het male gaze for a show about male strippers: there was a Full Monty poster staring at me from the back of the cubicle door in the ladies loo at the theatre! Now I can't speak for the sisterhood in general but this is not a desirable image to be confronted by under those circumstances, heh, and is unlikely to lead to increased ticket sales from my vicinity.
- Another Black Briton sold into slavery in the US after 1772? (Secret message to
al_zorra, not expecting you to read this immediately but...) Quoted from Jeffrey Green's website from 1853-5 sources: 'John Brown, born into slavery in Virginia around 1818, worked in the cotton fields of Georgia near Milledgeville before being sold on to planters in other states. At Milledgeville Brown met John Glasgow, a sailor from British Guiana (today: Guyana) whose stories of life in England encouraged Brown to consider escaping slavery and venturing to England. Glasgow had married a Lancashire woman and had two children and a small farm when he sailed to Savannah, Georgia’s main cotton port, in 1829. Slave states in the U.S.A. had strict controls on their black residents, and those with ports (Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas) viewed the free black sailors on French and British ships with alarum. Several put the black sailors into prison, releasing them when their ship was ready to depart and the captain had paid any debts and fines. Glasgow’s ship was long-delayed, and he was left in prison by the captain. Glasgow was sold at auction for $350, to a planter near Milledgeville. There he met John Brown, who was to say “One of my chief regrets is that I cannot remember the name of the place where John’s wife lived”. / Inspired by Glasgow, Brown eventually escaped north to Michigan and then Canada. He was living at 26 Stonecutter Street off Farringdon Street in central London when he made his declaration, having reached England in 1850, having last heard of Glasgow in 1840.'
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- "Canary girls": on the subject of wartime factory workers, I note that the women workers at Rotherwas munitions factory, and especially the 22 people who died in an air raid in 1942, will be memorialised with a history project. There are, of course, already limited memorials for Chilwell (134 dead, in 1918) and Barnbow (35 dead, in 1916) amongst others (individual deaths from health and safety failings and long term consequences were much higher in the industry in general, obv).
- Helping the police with their... social media. I was out for a stroll around town and was stopped by a police officer who asked me if I'd take a phonecam photo of her so she could tweet it on the local police station's twitter feed. Why, yes, I do feel odd about helping the police, especially this particular police force, with their enquiries PR. It also occurred to me that it'd be an excellent wheeze for acquiring partial fingerprints from a suspect, lol.
- Too much het male gaze for a show about male strippers: there was a Full Monty poster staring at me from the back of the cubicle door in the ladies loo at the theatre! Now I can't speak for the sisterhood in general but this is not a desirable image to be confronted by under those circumstances, heh, and is unlikely to lead to increased ticket sales from my vicinity.
- Another Black Briton sold into slavery in the US after 1772? (Secret message to
al_zorra, not expecting you to read this immediately but...) Quoted from Jeffrey Green's website from 1853-5 sources: 'John Brown, born into slavery in Virginia around 1818, worked in the cotton fields of Georgia near Milledgeville before being sold on to planters in other states. At Milledgeville Brown met John Glasgow, a sailor from British Guiana (today: Guyana) whose stories of life in England encouraged Brown to consider escaping slavery and venturing to England. Glasgow had married a Lancashire woman and had two children and a small farm when he sailed to Savannah, Georgia’s main cotton port, in 1829. Slave states in the U.S.A. had strict controls on their black residents, and those with ports (Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas) viewed the free black sailors on French and British ships with alarum. Several put the black sailors into prison, releasing them when their ship was ready to depart and the captain had paid any debts and fines. Glasgow’s ship was long-delayed, and he was left in prison by the captain. Glasgow was sold at auction for $350, to a planter near Milledgeville. There he met John Brown, who was to say “One of my chief regrets is that I cannot remember the name of the place where John’s wife lived”. / Inspired by Glasgow, Brown eventually escaped north to Michigan and then Canada. He was living at 26 Stonecutter Street off Farringdon Street in central London when he made his declaration, having reached England in 1850, having last heard of Glasgow in 1840.'
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