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Walking, talking and learning about anti-black violence in Liverpool: Developing and delivering a 1919 port city riots tour.
Topics: Historical Geography
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Keywords: Walking tours, historical education, black histories, anti-racist education, colonial histories. Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract Day: Monday Session Start / End Time: 2/28/2022 02:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/28/2022 03:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 60
Authors:
Andrew Davies, University of Liverpool
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Abstract
This paper reflects on the experiences of a team of researchers in delivering a walking tour based on the events of the 1919 “Race Riots” in Liverpool. Since 2017, a group related to the Great War to Race Riots Archive have developed a guided walking tour which explores the events leading up to the lynching of Charles Wotton, a black ex-serviceman, in Liverpool docks by a crowd of hundreds of white residents of the city. The tour follows, as best we know, the route that Charles took whilst he was chased by the crowd and the police who enabled his murder through their inaction. In this paper, I reflect on the challenges presented by the tour as it re-enacts in embodied ways past anti-black violence and discuss the ways in which we have imperfectly addressed some of these as the tour has developed since 2017.
Walking, talking and learning about anti-black violence in Liverpool: Developing and delivering a 1919 port city riots tour.