A Free Guided Tour! Guides: Dr Sunita Abraham and Dr Chris Donaldson from Lancaster University Fancy discovering how the city’s past connects with the histories of people from around the world? Join us for a tour of nine places in Lancaster’s historic Castle Quarter and its surroundings. We’ll view some of the city’s most iconic sites…

Time: Wednesday 19 June 2-4 pm Location: St Thomas Church Centre Free but requires registration – link HERE A fun-filled event where you can sip on delicious chai and sample food from around the world while engaging in conversations with people from diverse backgrounds.

Time: Tuesday 18th June 2024, 12.30 to 3 pm Location: FASS Meeting Room 2 and 3 Free workshop and lunch – requires registration. See LINK and attached poster. Open only to staff and students of Lancaster University. Emre Sarikaya is a Lancaster-based woman refugee artist from Turkey who will be teaching participants about the amazing UNESCO World Heritage recognised Ebru…

Time:  Thursday 13 June, 16:45 – 18:30 Location: Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre  Free but requires registration. See LINK Organised by students in the postgraduate community in the History Department. Dr Andrea Livesey, Senior Lecturer in the History of Slavery at Liverpool John Moores University, will be discussing her ground-breaking research on Imagining ‘Granny Marie’: Understanding Black Maternal…

Time:  Tuesday June 11, 11am-1pmLocation: Cavendish Colloquium Seminar Room Open to LU staff and students only, please register interest with Dr Esmorie Miller, e.j.miller@lancaster.ac.uk You be the Judge’ Roundtable Discussion on the Mau Mau. This insurgency, also known in Britain as the ‘Emergency Period’, was an eight-year span of violence in colonial Kenya (1952-60).

Location:  Storey Gallery, Lancaster city centre Time: 10th-15th June. Free, all welcome! See attached poster for more details.