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Black Victorians.(Report from Europe)(Black Victorians: Black People in British Art)(Brief Article)
People of African or Caribbean origin have lived in Britain for some centuries. With the growth of the British Empire, first explorers and then governors brought back, along with such exotic produce as tobacco and potatoes, a few people native to the lands introduced into the British political orbit.
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When Victoria became queen in 1837, slavery was in the process of being abolished in the British West Indies. For much of the nineteenth century the visual arts incorporated depictions of black people that fell into various categories. Some were merely for curiosity value. Others were celebrities such as the Crimean War nurse Mary Seacole, the American-born actor Ira Aldridge, the queen's goddaughter Sarah Bonetta Davies, ...
- Central City News: Moira's making news at event; CITY CENTRE: BBC broadcaster...
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England) January 17, 2006 700+ words
...veteran broadcaster will open the Black Victorians exhibition at the Waterhall...agreed to open the show." Black Victorians is jointly organized by Manchester Art Gallery and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and is curated by writer...
- Artistic ideals of the other Victorians; Black Victorians - Black People in...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) February 11, 2006 700+ words
...fascinating images today of eminent black Victorians. The book shows at one point...the colour of one's skin. Black Victorians is currently on show at the Waterhall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. CAPTION(S): James Northcote...
- Black Victorians: Patrick Vernon, a key figure in the Greatest Black Britons...
- Magazine article from: History Today Vernon, Patrick October 1, 2005 700+ words
...The new exhibition 'Black Victorians: Black People in...by the Manchester Art Gallery (where it opens on...Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (where it transfers...100greatblackbritons.com 'Black Victorians: Black People in...2006 at Manchester Art Gallery, ...
- Exhibition presents truthful image of black Victorians.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) February 2, 2006 700+ words
...s first art exhibition of Black Victorians in Birmingham yesterday and...exhibited at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, gave a remarkable insight...Stuart at the opening of the Black Victorians art exhibition in Waterhall...
- Moira in the picture; ART: TV newscaster praises exhibition of paintings...
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England) February 2, 2006 700+ words
...s first art exhibition of Black Victorians in Birmingham yesterday and...exhibited at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, gave a remarkable insight...browsing at the official opening of Black Victorians art exhibition in the city...
- REVIEW: Black Victorians/Black Victoriana.(Book Review)
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books July 17, 2003 700+ words
...2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD 'Black Victorians/Black Victoriana' is a collection...achieving Gerzina's aim of putting black Victorians "back into the national picture...us to acknowledge the effect that black Victorians have had on modern day British society...
- Black Victorians/Black Victoriana.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Hughes, Keith January 1, 2006 700+ words
Black Victorians/Black Victoriana. Ed. by HOLDBROK...directly on the experiences of specific black Victorians--the composer Samuel Coleridge...Conceptualizations, and Discourses of Black Victorians'. This is where the majority of...
- Black Victorians.(Books about antiques)(Black Victorians: Black People in...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Mayor, Alfred February 1, 2006 700+ words
...only white but black slave owners, as well as the Africans who herded other Africans to the slave ships. By contrast Black Victorians: Black People in British Art, 1800-1900 is an oasis of tranquility. Under the Slave Trade Act in 1807, British slavers...