We were delighted to welcome Mr Creighton to speak to Sixth Form students on Thursday 10th February.
Mr Creighton lived in Wandsworth from 1970 to 1995 and was a Councillor 1982-86. He has been researching Wandsworth’s history, primarily focusing on its labour and socialist movements since 1976. He has given a wide variety of talks and led walks in different parts of the Borough. His interest in John Archer grew out of this, and led him into also researching, writing and talking about British black history and slavery and abolition. He has worked on a range of history projects including one on Archer with Nubian Jak Community Trust in several Wandsworth secondary schools, the 2007 Tyne & Wear Remembering Slavery project and the 2010-13 North East Popular Politics Project. He edits a database from these projects for North East Labour History Society. He has been working on slavery and abolition issues with students at Durham University as recently as Monday and Tuesday of this week. He co-ordinates the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network and produces blogs on Croydon, history and Norbury where he now lives. In May and June at the Wandsworth Heritage Festival he will be giving talks on the Edwardian roller skating boom and on sport at the time of John Archer.
Mr Creighton’s talk introduced students to John Archer. He discuss memorialisation problems involved in researching, and publicising the Black Atlantic, and posed a number of important questions for students to consider.
Mr Andrews (Senior Tutor)