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  • Explore Lancaster’s Global Connections – Join Our Walking Tour!

    Ever wondered how Lancaster connects to histories across the world? Join us for the Lancaster ‘Glocal’ History Walking Tour, an engaging guided walk that explores how the city’s story links from the Roman Empire to the British Empire. Discover iconic landmarks, and understand Lancaster’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution. Learn…

  • Inclusivity Zine-Making Workshop

    This zine-making workshop, led by Meg Ritchie, explored zines as a creative, decolonial and community-building practice. Participants used visual and written storytelling to reflect on inclusion, voice and collective experience. The session encouraged informal knowledge-sharing and creative expression as alternatives to traditional academic formats, highlighting how art-based methods can support inclusive engagement and dialogue. The…

  • DLU and LU Sanctuary Online Panel Discussion

    As part of Black History Month, DLU co-hosted an online panel discussion with LU Sanctuary focusing on decolonial approaches to museums, asylum and modern slavery. The panel brought together colleagues working across research, policy and community engagement. Speakers included: The session provided space for staff and students to engage with applied decolonial work and to…

  • Glocal Walk with Lancaster Royal Grammar School Students

    An external Glocal Walk was delivered for senior students from Lancaster Royal Grammar School, focusing on local sites connected to colonial trade, industrial labour and global movement. The walk aimed to support school-level learning around history, citizenship and social inequality through place-based discussion. Students were encouraged to consider how global histories are embedded within local…

  • Welcome Week Glocal Walks at Lancaster University

    Two Glocal Walks were delivered during Welcome Week, let by Dr. Sunita Abraham and Dr. Chris Donaldson from Lancaster University. These walks were designed to introduce new students to Lancaster’s local history while linking it to wider global processes connected to empire, trade, labour and migration. Participants were encouraged to reflect on how colonial histories…

  • Are We Still Decolonising the University? One-Day Symposium co-hosted by DLU

    This one-day in-person symposium brought together over 60 staff and students from universities across the UK to discuss decolonisation and anti-racism in Higher Education. The event was co-hosted by Dr Sunita Abraham (Lancaster University), Dr Laura Key and Lucy Potter (York St John University), and Dr Leon Moosavi (University of Liverpool). The symposium was open…

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