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Media coverage

Details of the local and national news and media coverage gained by the African Stories in Hull and East Yorkshire project.
October 2020
During Black History Week 2020, the project was commissioned to work with Hull High Street Action Zone for Historic England for an exhibition in Hull Old Town.

​We are grateful to the following organisations for their support:
  • BBC Look North
  • Yorkshire Calendar News
  • The Guardian 
  • Yorkshire Post 
  • Kofi Smiles - BBC Radio Humberside
  • Phil White - BBC Radio Humberside
  • Rachel Campey - Beverley FM
  • Hull CC News
  • Hull Daily Mail
  • This is Hull
  • Visit Hull​​
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A feature in the Yorkshire Post promoting the October 2020 exhibition.

June - December 2018
In the last half of 2018, we lent our voice to work with a number of organisations:
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  • Historic England - June
  • Maritime Archaeology Trust (pg. 25-27) - September
  • Black History Month website and magazine - October
  • Fawcett Society - November
  • Leeds Museums with artist Suman Kaur - November
  • University of Cambridge - November
Beverley FM, 26 May 2018
David Fewster broadcasts the news of the second exhibition at Beverley Treasure House.

May 2018

March 2018
Who Do You Think You Are? magazine, March 2018
Call for information featured in Who Do You Think We Are? magazine, April edition.
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February 2018
ITV Calendar, 13 February 2018
Gifty Burrows speaks on James Webster's report on Dusé​ Mohamed Ali.
Beverley FM, 12 February 2018
Les Smith broadcasts our 'Call for Information' and mentions May's Beverley exhibition.

January 2018
The Voice magazine, 21 January 2018
​'Contribution Of Africans Shown In Hull’s History Exhibition'

December 2017
BBC World Service, 3 December 2017
Gifty Burrows speaks on BBC World Service's Weekend programme in their feature 'A Tour of Hull: UK City of Culture'.
  • Listen on the BBC website.

October 2017
BBC Radio Humberside 8 October 2017,
​The 2017 Show with Kofi Smiles: Africans in Yorkshire: Gifty Burrows 
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BBC Hull 2017 UK City of Culture: African Stories in Hull and East Yorkshire
4 October 2017


September 2017

YV Young Voices online article: www.voice-online.co.uk
29 September 2017


http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/stories-showcase-history-africans

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Estuary TV 27 September 2017
BBC Radio Humberside 24 September 2017
Estuary TV News: 19 September 2017
The project's exhibition 'Our Histories Revealed' is featured in the Hull Daily Mail, 2 September 2017 [click to enlarge]:
​Image credit - Jerome Whittingham @photomoments
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It also appeared as a feature on ITV's Calendar News - 7 Sept 2017


https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/histories-revealed-africans-hull-east-yorkshire/

Published: Monday 25th September 2017 by Courtney Farrow
http://www.heytoday.co.uk/local-news/a-history-that-includes-everyone 

Published 4th Sept
https://www.hull2017.co.uk/discover/article/exhibition-shares-histories-africans-hull-east-yorkshire/ 


December 2016
Project Lead Gifty Burrows and Project Researcher Dr Lauren Darwin speak to Estuary TV News about the African Stories in Hull & East Yorkshire Project.

18th October 2016
Project Lead Gifty Burrows and Project Researcher Dr Lauren Darwin speak to David Reeves for the Phil White Show, Radio Humberside.

16th June 2016
Read the Driffield Times & Post article about the project. Click on the image below to download the page.
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13th June 2016
Our project lead Gifty Burrows was at Radio Humberside this afternoon talking to David Reeves on the Phil White show about our amazing Heritage Lottery Fund award which will support us to rediscover stories of people of African descent in Hull and East Yorkshire.

Gifty Burrows, Chair of Trustees of the William Wilberforce Monument Fund and our project lead, reveals plans of an oral history project aiming to collect the untold stories of Africans that have traveled to Hull and East Yorkshire. @wilberforcefund @photomoments

The Phil White Show, BBC Radio Humberside, 11 Feb 2016

Press play to listen to our Project Lead, Gifty Burrows talking about the project on the Phil White show, Radio Humberside..

Hull Daily Mail, 'Calvin on Culture', 13 Feb 2016.

Calendar Local News, 20 Feb 2016.

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