Discovering our region's diverse history
MANY famous people have passed through Exeter on their travels through life – and a new project aims to find out more about them.
Exeter's Global Centre has won a grant of £49,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to find out more about famous, and ordinary, people with a connection to the city.
Telling our Stories, Finding our Roots: Exeter's multi-coloured history will bring together local people of all backgrounds, ages, ethnic groups and nationalities, to find out about Exeter's rich and varied past.
Ghee Bowman, the project's co-ordinator, said: "People often think that Devon is all-white and always has been. This project aims to unearth some hidden stories of people like slaves and servants and sailors, GIs and Roman legionnaires and modern restaurateurs: folk from around the world who've settled and passed through."
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Volunteer researchers from the community will receive training before interviewing Exeter residents from a variety of backgrounds, as well as carrying out research of local archives. Organisations involved include Exeter University and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
If you would like to be part of the team of volunteers, if you know somebody who might be good to interview, or if you can suggest stories and leads, contact Ghee Bowman on 01392 438811 or gbowman@globalcentredevon.org.uk
There will be information events at the Global Centre on Wednesday, August 29, at 2pm and on Tuesday, September 18, at 6pm.
Comments
by rizla_bf
Saturday, August 04 2012, 5:24PM
“That's politically correct garbage CJR, the UK is a North European monoculture and always has been, The kind of Multiculturalism your talking about has happened over the last fifty years. Politically correct left wing social engineering is built upon a rats nest of lies.”
by C_J_R
Saturday, August 04 2012, 11:10AM
“I think the negative comments above show why projects like these are necessary. How can raising awareness of our multicultural past possibly wipe out indigenous English culture (whatever that might be?) And how many commentators truly know their own ethnicity?”
by DitchTownsend
Saturday, August 04 2012, 8:55AM
“Well done Global Centre: to celebrate our diversity is to be wonderfully human.”
by SWNationalist
Friday, August 03 2012, 10:26PM
“Another politically correct group with lottery funding.
Are they going to highlight the slavery of white Britons by foreign races which is well documented? No, of course not.
Are they going to provide details of such diverse and multi-coloured delights as http://tinyurl.com/bwp4dm6
Of course they are not.
Just another attempt at re-writing past and present, rose tinted glasses vision of the mulitcultural nightmare.”
by Woolydale
Friday, August 03 2012, 10:09PM
“So Roman legionaires were not evil colonisers & Empire builders but wonderful migrants who can teach us about Diversity!”
by Woolydale
Friday, August 03 2012, 9:58PM
“Sounds like another eg of the State using public funds to wipe out indigenous English history people & culture, in its on going plan to colonise England with millions of Third world & East European migrants”
by rizla_bf
Friday, August 03 2012, 9:57PM
“What a politically correct twerp, Exeter has not got a Multicoloured history!”
by DrRyanWalker
Friday, August 03 2012, 9:38PM
“Sounds like BS to me re-writing history to fool people into believing we have always been multicultural is a Lie!!”