BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:357@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151028T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20151028T180000 DTSTAMP:20151021T162656Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/central-library-from-great-war-t o-race-riots-website-launch/ SUMMARY:Liverpool Central Library: Central Library: From Great War to Race Riots Website Launch DESCRIPTION:From Great War to Race Riots Website Launch\n\nDate: Wednesday 28 October 2015\nVenue: Liverpool Central Library\nTime: 18.00\nFree\, no booking required\n\nWriting on the Wall presents the Great War to Race Rio ts Website Launch on Wednesday 28th October during Black History Month at Liverpool Central Library at 6pm. In 2014 community member and activist Jo e Farrag presented Writing on the Wall with a fascinating and moving colle ction of documents and letters. This archive relates to the position of Bl ack ex-servicemen\, seamen and factory workers stranded or left destitute in Liverpool after the First World War who had fought for England on land and at sea during the Great War of 1914\, or had worked in factories in Li verpool\, and had wives and children here. They were then subjected to ver bal\, physical and racial abuse on the streets of Liverpool which was comp ounded by institutional racism. Set against the backdrop of the 1919 race riots\, the documents reveal a plight of daily racism and loss of jobs bec ause of a boycott by white workers.\n\n[caption id="attachment_64622" alig n="alignright" width="300"] Sharon Lane and Janaya Pickett look at the arc hive[/caption]\n\nThe unique nature of this material is that it contains t he written word of those ex-servicemen\, sailors and workers who were bein g confronted with poverty\, abuse and assault. One stranded seamen\, Elish a Sterling\, who is appealing for help from the Lord Mayor so he can retur n to Jamaica\, writes\, ‘My wife as to lock in the house all day – she having no freedom to walk the street the way in which she is insulted by people’s as she is being a coloured woman. Please sir I am anxiously awa its your assistance otherwise I believe…my wife will do some wrong to he rself.’\n\nThe Archive group have been attending weekly sessions to expl ore and research the archive material\, preserve and conserve it\, and pre pare it for archiving and public presentation. Writing on the Wall welcome s the public to come view these fascinating documents and meet the people who have worked hard to catalogue and digitise this important collection a nd who have been exploring Liverpool's Black WWI experience through the pr ism of these important letters and documents.\n\nFeaturing: Levi Tafari wh o will be performing specially commissioned pieces inspired by the stories contained in the archive.\n\nCo-Director of Writing on the Wall\, Madelin e Heneghan says: ‘This fascinating collection has received a great deal of nation attention because it sheds light\, not only of Liverpool’s dev elopment\, but on British Colonial and World War 1 histories. The group of volunteers who have been working on the archive to make it publicly acces sible are playing a vital role in the preservation and presentation of the city’s rich heritage.‘\n\nThis project is funded by The Heritage Lott ery.\n\nWriting on the Wall website ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2015/10/wow-bhm-1.jpg LOCATION:Liverpool Central Library\, William Brown Street\, Liverpool\, L3 8EW\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40948;-2.981423 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=William Brown Street\, Live rpool\, L3 8EW\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Liv erpool Central Library:geo:53.40948,-2.981423 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR