This event is part of Bristol Transformed - an annual festival of socialist ideas, culture, and arts. Tickets for the tour are free, but only valid alongside a ticket to the main festival! Find it here: hdfst.uk/e126380

Meet outside the main gate to the SS Great Britain, on the docks. Arrive 5 minutes early - we'll be leaving at 18.00 sharp!

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Before Bristol Transformed Festival kicks off in earnest, join us for the walking tour: "Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol Memoryscapes".

The tour is a 90min walk from the SS Great Britain to Stokes Croft/Hamilton House, reflecting on memorialisation, the spectres of colonialism and repair, led by Richard White. The route is wheelchair and buggy accessible, but bumpy in places.

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About Richard White:

Dr Richard White is a former Senior Lecturer in Media Practice at Bath Spa University and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow.

For the past 10 years he has been hosting walks creatively exploring hidden, obscured and often uncomfortable histories, legacies of slave-ownership and colonialism. In July the book he contributed to and co-edited, Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes was published by Liverpool University Press (the book is available to download for free from:
/liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781802075885)

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