To mark Windrush 75 in 2023, the Outreach team contributed to the community engagement strand of The National Archives programme.
Outreach led on two projects, one with Black African Asian Therapy Network and the other with Tamasha Theatre Company, each in their own way capturing more of the very personal responses to these significant moments in our national story.
Tamasha Theatre Company
We continued our now well-established association with audio drama with a new play by Mel Pennant, ‘A story told three times and still unfinished’, which premiered on Monday 30 October 2023. The play was written following research at The National Archives and then a programme of outreach led by Tamasha with black Caribbean communities in London and Bristol. You can listen to the play and the Q&A here:
Black African Asian Therapy Network (BAATN)
In the project with BAATN, the aim was to reach out to the Windrush generation through links members of the BAATN community had, and capture this on a dedicated web page. The result has been a very personal and moving tribute to the Windrush generation via a collection of reflections and memories. The page also features some of the records from The National Archives used in making this project. You can visit the web page here:
Windrush 75: A Collaboration with The National Archives
Blog post
Reflecting on Windrush 75
Outreach led on two projects, one with Black African Asian Therapy Network (BAATN) and the other with Tamasha Theatre Company. Each, in their own way, captured more of the very personal responses to these significant moments in our national story. Building on the work Outreach has pioneered in the field of archives and emotions, we were involved early on in a dual process of both dissecting the record and the related histories, but also attuning ourselves to those viewing the record or sharing it with others. Doing so afforded opportunities that engaged participants not only in discussions about records and histories, but also about feelings, emotions and memories.