The mckenzie heritage picture library and archive (1996 - 2006) is a unique collection of historic images, books & engravings & documenting global African & Asian communities.
Currently on loan to the Black Cultural Archives (London).
Operating as usual
Indelicate truths — an artist’s depiction of slavery on fine china
https://www.ft.com/content/51936c59-d58b-4aa4-a036-0353e69536f0?fbclid=IwAR1BnOEMVqNrMKYNuEkNdVmxGhrJf4c9DVLxWAkhY1rJ4eaTijt0qbMc3-E
Jacqueline Bishop’s alternative dinner service brings history starkly to life
Hate crime at Windrush walkway exhibition, Tilbury
https://t.co/WiZ2VEfiJ3?fbclid=IwAR3MYvKvPMl6W0hv3ValP06Zlh0YnCd-PwljqDDah9533qzXdOf0EK0Ms-4
The Port of Tilbury is where the Empire Windrush ship anchored in 1948
Work Of First African American Painter With International Reputation Explored
Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris, where he found "nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears." Recent conservation work explores his artistic process.
Junior tap dancing class in Harlem dance studio
One of hundreds of thousands of free digital items from The New York Public Library.
Notting Hill Carnival: 10 photographers recount their favourite moments
Photographers such as Vivek Vadoliya, Babycakes Romero and Dolapo Olasimbo select their favourite images, captured at the Caribbean parade
Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories is an art and sound installation. It is the first site-specific art and sound installation to be held at the Port of Tilbury in Essex and the UK dedicated to people of the Windrush Generation.
https://www.evewrightarts.org/tilbury-walkway
© Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories. Artist EVEWRIGHT and selected Photos John Ferguson. All other images Evewright Studio and Evewright Arts all rights reserved 2021
I remember how excited I was when I set up McKenzie Heritage Pictures which included archival images of African, Caribbean and Indian communities. Luckily I still have my own private collection of postcard images, some originally created from photographs which can be found in the Caribbean photo archive.
http://www.caribbeanphotoarchive.com/
#caribbean #photographs #archive #mckenzieheritage
The Caribbean Photo Archive is a privately owned collection of original photographs taken throughout the Caribbean Islands, the Bahamas and Bermuda in the 19th century and early 20th century. If you’d like to see more of our collection, check out our regularly updated Photostream and our Photo Col...
1940s black women's fashion
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1940s black women's fashion
https://vintagedancer.com/1940s/1940s-black-fashion-african-american-clothing-photos/
From the time of WW2 to the post-war revival, these photos capture everyday life and fashion in the 1940s for black African American men and women.
Jamaica, early 20th Century
Jamaica, early 20th Century
‘Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika’.
When I listen to this song, it makes me so emotional…family, friends and so many meaningful memories. Happy African Emancipation Day (1834). Happy Sunday🌻 #africaemancipationday #sunday #heritage 🤎
“The British like other colonial powers had allowed the widespread practice of slavery to take place during the time of expansion to the new world. In 1772, the ruling in the case of Somerset v Stewart determined that slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales. While the ruling was not clear on the situation in other parts of the Empire, this case was seen as a key turning point in the change towards emancipation.
Slavery was finally abolished throughout the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which came into effect on August 1st 1834. The territories controlled at that time by the East India Company, Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) and St. Helen's were excluded. Slavery was not abolished in these regions until 1843”. 👍🏾
LYRICS to Nkosi sikelela -
Nkosi sikelel' Afrika
Maluphakanyisw' uphondo lwayo
Yizwa imithandazo
Yethu
Nkosi sikelela
Thina
Lusapho lwayo
Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso
O fedise dintwa la matshwenyeh
O se boloke (Ntate)
O se boloke
Setjhaba sa
Heso
Setjhaba sa
South Afrika
(South Afrika)
Uit die blou van onse hemel
Uit die diepte van ons see
Oor ons ewige gebergtes
Waar die kranse antwoord gee
Sounds to call to come together
And united we shall stand
Let us live and strive for freedom
In South Africa our land.
https://youtu.be/NBKjWRjwMkY
‘Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika’.
When I listen to this song, it makes me so emotional…family, friends and so many meaningful memories. Happy African Emancipation Day (1834). Happy Sunday🌻 #africaemancipationday #sunday #heritage 🤎
“The British like other colonial powers had allowed the widespread practice of slavery to take place during the time of expansion to the new world. In 1772, the ruling in the case of Somerset v Stewart determined that slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales. While the ruling was not clear on the situation in other parts of the Empire, this case was seen as a key turning point in the change towards emancipation.
Slavery was finally abolished throughout the British Empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which came into effect on August 1st 1834. The territories controlled at that time by the East India Company, Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) and St. Helen's were excluded. Slavery was not abolished in these regions until 1843”. 👍🏾
LYRICS to Nkosi sikelela -
Nkosi sikelel' Afrika
Maluphakanyisw' uphondo lwayo
Yizwa imithandazo
Yethu
Nkosi sikelela
Thina
Lusapho lwayo
Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso
O fedise dintwa la matshwenyeh
O se boloke (Ntate)
O se boloke
Setjhaba sa
Heso
Setjhaba sa
South Afrika
(South Afrika)
Uit die blou van onse hemel
Uit die diepte van ons see
Oor ons ewige gebergtes
Waar die kranse antwoord gee
Sounds to call to come together
And united we shall stand
Let us live and strive for freedom
In South Africa our land.
https://youtu.be/NBKjWRjwMkY
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'The door opens a little and someone squeezes through, then it slams closed again' - photographer Vanley Burke and author Kieran Connell reflect on 1980s Handsworth
Marcus Rashford & Adwoa Aboah Star on Front Cover of British Vogue in Issue Celebrating Activists
Footballer Marcus Rashford stars on the cover of British Vogue in an edition celebrating inspiring global activists.
Cephas Williams turns a shopping centre into a gallery for his Portrait of Black Britain exhibition.
The African figures 'forgotten' by England's cultural past
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57397584?fbclid=IwAR0_L_bVPZYb9RVa5vx7FqkT2q10xiEGQPoPwgEwod1iGwLjySBscCmKzsA
A new English Heritage art collection aims to reflect the long history of African people in England.
Britain’s first Black policewoman, Sislin Fay Allen, from Jamaica has passed on at age 83 at her home in Jamaica. May her onward journey be blessed. 🌺
Britain’s first Black policewoman, Sislin Fay Allen, from Jamaica has passed on at age 83 at her home in Jamaica. May her onward journey be blessed. 🌺
‘Heading Herring’ published in 1861. ARTIST: LIEUTENANT OSBON . American engraving from an old issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, an illustrated newspaper.
In 1964, Ghanaian, Melody Danquah became the first ever female Pilot to emerge from the whole of Africa.
Melody finished first in her class and as Flt. Cadet Danquah, she flew solo for the first time in a de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk aircraft on June 22, 1964.
#MelodyDanquah #ghana
In 1964, Ghanaian, Melody Danquah became the first ever female Pilot to emerge from the whole of Africa.
Melody finished first in her class and as Flt. Cadet Danquah, she flew solo for the first time in a de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk aircraft on June 22, 1964.
#MelodyDanquah #ghana
A history that seeps into how people think and behave today.
https://vimeo.com/210316203
This is "How does the painting, ‘The Redemption of Ham’, by Modesto Brocos illustrate ideas of whitening?" by Choices Program on Vimeo, the…
Looted artefacts withdrawn from UK auction after Ethiopia’s appeal. Ethiopian government asked auction house to ‘stop cycle of dispossession’.
Article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/16/looted-artefacts-withdrawn-from-uk-auction-after-ethiopia-appeal
RIP
RIP
Anton Wilhelm Amo, A Black Philosopher in 18th Century Europe and Went back to Ghana.
Story:
https://medium.com/@temitopeajileye/anton-wilhelm-amo-a-black-philosopher-in-18th-century-europe-16d29ff3f165
Anton Wilhelm Amo, A Black Philosopher in 18th Century Europe and Went back to Ghana.
Story:
https://medium.com/@temitopeajileye/anton-wilhelm-amo-a-black-philosopher-in-18th-century-europe-16d29ff3f165
Hazel Dorothy Scott
Hazel Dorothy Scott
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57397584
A new English Heritage art collection aims to reflect the long history of African people in England.
Images of Indentureship arrival in the Caribbean
During the period of Indian Indentureship (1838-1917), the number of emigrants indentured to each colony varied between the dates 1834-1917. The largest emigration was to Mauritius with 453,063. The next highest was British Guiana with 238,909, then Trinidad with 143,939. Away from the Caribbean some of the highest number of emigrants indentured were to Malay with 250,000, Natal with 152,184 and Fiji with 60,965.
The numbers returning to India from British Guiana, Trinidad, Jamaica, and other Caribbean islands have been estimated to be under 10%. However, there remains some debate as to how many Indians actually returned to India or found work elsewhere. According to reports submitted by colonial officials, those Indians that did return to India would re-submit themselves for indenture after a period back in India. Some of those re-indenturing would act as recruiters for new labour to the colonies.
Further reading
There are many books on the subject of Indian Indenture, below are some suggestions:
‘A New System of Slavery: Export of Indian Labour Overseas 1834-1920’ by Hugh Tinker, Oxford University Press, 1974
‘Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830 -1920′, by Ashutosh Kumar, Cambridge University Press, 2017
‘Indentured Labour: Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918′ by Walton Look Lai, 1993
‘Girmitiyas: The origins of the Fiji Indians’ by Brij V Lal, Journal of Pacific History, 1983
‘Voices from Indenture: Experiences of Indian Migrants in the British Empire’ by Marina Carter, Leicester University Press, 1996.
‘Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture’ by Gaiutra Bahadur, Hurst and Company, 2016.
‘India in the Caribbean’ edited by Dr David Dabydeen and Dr Brinsley Samaroo. Hansib, 1987.
‘Sugar, Sugar: Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers’, by Lainy Malkani. Hope Road, 2017
Indian indentureship
A one-day workshop on Indian Indenture exploring themes of departure, journey and settlement by combining therapeutic practice with archival research.
Saturday 24 July 2021, 10 am – 3 pm
https://www.baatn.org.uk/national-archive-page/
Journeying: Indian Indenture A one-day workshop on Indian Indenture exploring themes of departure, journey and settlement by combining therapeutic practice with archival research. Saturday 24 July 2021, 10 am – 3 pm Press “Legacy” button below to see previous event, personal reflections and to...
To be published on 22 June Windrush Day. The book is the only book currently available giving you a total guide around London from the Black perspective.
This book covers North, East, South and West areas of London, you can open it at any page and learn something new.
Enjoy meeting new characters such as William and Ellen Craft, Daphne Adriana Steele and many more. The book covers memorials, statues, plaques, street names and ephemeral pieces of work.
Buy:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313518853347?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=7101533165274578&mkcid=2&itemid=313518853347&targetid=4584826055637461&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=412354546&mkgroupid=1299623041023876&rlsatarget=pla-4584826055637461&abcId=9300541&merchantid=87779&msclkid=e56f8e33160f101365a6ee852e154974
To be published on 22 June Windrush Day. The book is the only book currently available giving you a total guide around London from the Black perspective.
This book covers North, East, South and West areas of London, you can open it at any page and learn something new.
Enjoy meeting new characters such as William and Ellen Craft, Daphne Adriana Steele and many more. The book covers memorials, statues, plaques, street names and ephemeral pieces of work.
Buy:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313518853347?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=7101533165274578&mkcid=2&itemid=313518853347&targetid=4584826055637461&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=412354546&mkgroupid=1299623041023876&rlsatarget=pla-4584826055637461&abcId=9300541&merchantid=87779&msclkid=e56f8e33160f101365a6ee852e154974
When you think about America's Gilded Age, what do you imagine?Perhaps you see images of "Little House on the Prairie"? Or photos of dapper gentlemen and women dressed in frilly lace, riding steam engine trains across the country?Most of us equate the fashion and social norms of that time period wit...
A starting point. Would have preferred a global perspective.
Goldsmiths, University of London Ansel Wong
A starting point. Would have preferred a global perspective.
Goldsmiths, University of London Ansel Wong
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/60-black-plaques-and-nubian-jak-tickets-155209546933
Amazing Black British history has been memorialised in 60 black plaques and two statues. The dynamo behind Nubian Jak reveals all, plus Q&A
Britain's first black aristocrats
Whitewashed stories about the British upper classes are being retold. Fedora Abu explores the Bridgerton effect, and talks to Lawrence Scott, author of Dangerous Freedom.
Colonial postcards from a dark past, 1890-1914
By the 1890s postcards were widely available throughout continental Europe. The postcards appealed to tourists looking for a souvenir of their travels abroad. Although travel was still largely limi…
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The ‘Slave Bible’
John Henry Smthye
John Henry Smythe
Anita McKenzie (Founder and CEO of Mckenzie Heritage Picture Library) talks with Gradle about 'cultural competency' and her journey as a photographer, Mckenzie Heritage Picture Library & Achive and how to apply the use photographic images, with her 7 Tips, to life memory and heritage work with children and elders. Featuring images from the MH and Anita's personal collection.
Loving this🙏🏾
So grateful to have a recording of Ignatius Sancho’s beautiful music...
Love docu’s
Prosperity in Greenwood, Oklahoma
“If we stand tall it is because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors.” —African Proverb. At Mckenzie Heritage (MH) we dig images big time, thats what its all about. Preserving the past and celebrating the present through the visual. Started in 1996 by Anita J McKenzie, a photographer and image collector. It was the first of its kind, a Black-owned commercial picture library and archive, with a collection of historic and contemporary images in the form of engravings, lithographs, postcards, ephemera and photographs. The collection has been utilised by publishers across print, art, news and journalistic and other visual media industries. Supported with the expertise of a diverse advisory board, which included Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Len Garrison, William March, Conrad Taylor... In 2004 Mckenzie Heritage published ‘Contrasts, Textures and Hues – Exploring early printed images of people of African and Asian heritage’
This neat book features a collection of selected woodcuts, engravings and lithograph images depicting African and Indian heritage people which were circulated in western magazines and books of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Society of Antiquaries of London
Burlington House, PiccadillyHayward Gallery at Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre
