This lecture will explore the racially diverse history and my walks over the years across rural Britain. The racially diverse history of rural Britain is well documented, yet it continues to feel invisible to the wider public and communities; much of that presence is erased in the English rural idyll. Our absent presence underlines the fiction that racialised people in rural Britain are recent immigrants.
From the Africans along Hadrian’s Wall to Dartmoor Prison. Diversity was integral to Hadrian’s Wall, which included the African Roman emperor Septimius Severus. The erasure of racialised people from heritage and history mirrors the erasure of racialised people from rural Britain.
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