Global Cotton Connections: East meets West in the Derbyshire Peak District, UK

Lead Research Organisation: University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Geography

Abstract

Britain is famous for its 'Industrial Revolution' and cotton textiles were a key component of this. Many early mills were located in rural areas where water power could be harnessed. The Derbyshire Peak District, now partly covered by a National Park, is one such area. Amidst small towns and farmland the sites of the earliest water-powered cotton mills in the world are found, several of which form the heart of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. Yet the global connections of this important cotton textile heritage area often remain obscured. The sources of raw cotton grown in India, Egypt and on slave-worked plantations in the Americas are rarely identified. The importance of the cotton goods produced for not only domestic but colonial markets, including the slave trade and plantation supplies remain hidden. Such absences contribute to feelings of exclusion and alienation amongst Indian and African Caribbean heritage groups already poorly represented as visitors to such heritage sites and the wider countryside.

This project sets out to reconnect this important world site of industrial innovation with the people and places involved in cotton textile production in the past and now. Through examination of historical archives it will provide new information on cotton supplies and product use. It will use this new historical information to inform collaborative work with three local community-based groups from different heritage backgrounds: former Derbyshire textile workers based in Glossop, a Sheffield Hindu heritage group and an inner city Nottingham group of African Caribbean heritage. The groups will be encouraged to reflect on this new information and undertake visits to the mill sites, facilitated by the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, to help them gain further insight into the issues. In conjunction with the project team the community groups will consider how global, diverse heritage perspectives might be better represented in the heart of the Peak District and will develop a set of materials to help do this. As well as this very local approach, the project will run an international cotton workshop, hosting cotton experts from India and the Americas, to provide new perspectives on the Peak District cotton textile industry and its heritage sites. This will be attended by academics, charities and representatives of the community groups involved in the collaborative research. Bringing people together in this way will help develop personal links between academics, third sector organisations and publics interested in the connections of cotton and with the aim of encouraging more collaborative work in the future.

Planned Impact

The project has capacity for cultural and social impact on a local, regional and national scale. In particular, it has potential for direct impact on public and third sector bodies in the Derbyshire Peak District, and community-based organisations and wider publics in the region. Through archival research and a series of community engagement, knowledge exchange and networking activities, the project will: a) Improve the effectiveness of rural heritage provision in the Peak District and so enhance cultural enrichment opportunities; b) Enhance the knowledge of public and third sector organisations concerned with preserving and communicating the Peak District's natural and cultural heritage; c) Contribute to increasing public understanding of the British countryside's global histories, and so help open up these public spaces to more diverse audiences.
To achieve this the project is collaborating with the following key stakeholders: 1) The Peak District National Park (PDNP), whose remit includes the conservation of the Park's cultural heritage, increasing public understanding of the park and fostering the social well-being of its local communities; 2) Derwent Valley Mills (DVM) World Heritage Site, a third sector organisation that manages this UNESCO World Heritage; 3) The Arkwright Society, an educational charity concerned with the conservation of industrial heritage and the built and natural landscape of Cromford; Glossop Heritage Trust, a local charity promoting the textile heritage of Glossop and responding to the interests of ex-textile workers and their families in the region; Sheffield Hindu Samaj: a voluntary group concerned with promoting Hindu faith, culture, arts and languages, raising awareness about different ethnic groups, and advancing education. The project has also engaged a community historian, Helen Bates, with significant experience of working in the East Midlands, especially with Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) communities. Drawing on her expertise and network of contacts, e.g. from the Hyson Green Nottingham Group, Bates will help facilitate engagement with Nottingham's BME communities. The activities and outputs that will help realise these impacts are set out below. The archival research into international connections of cotton supplies, products and people will directly benefit the named public and third sector bodies, as the new information will enhance the scope of heritage narratives at these sites, and thereby their appeal to more diverse audiences. This will be embedded through new exhibition panels. Both the PDNP and the DVM World Heritage Site will also benefit from the greater engagement of BME and inner city groups enabled by the project's site visits, and associated knowledge exchange. The production of heritage resources aimed at such underrepresented audiences will also benefit these non-HEIs in terms of attracting wider audiences, including BME and international visitors. This will be helped by the project's marketing scheme, targeting national organisations such as the Black and Asian Studies Association and the Black Cultural Archives.
The community workshops and site visits will directly benefit the community groups working with the project, as they will be designed to respond to their interests, e.g. in terms of particular connections to textile mills and global histories. Additionally, the opportunity for knowledge exchange and the co-production of heritage resources will offer participants a voice in their own heritage and community narratives. More indirectly, wider publics including BME groups in Nottingham and Sheffield will benefit from the project's outputs, which will communicate the new heritage and community narrative about the Peak District's international connections to cotton, including those related to slavery and colonialism, in an accessible way. This will include the new heritage resources in situ but also digital and social media outputs, eg blog pages, community films.
 
Title DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre, Cromford Mills Phase 1 
Description The GCC project contributed to the development of the following key elements of the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre exhibition: 1) maps showing the supplies of raw cotton to the Strutt family mills in the DVMWHS; 2) a panel on 'Cotton Connections' highlighting the links of the cotton industry in the Derwent Valley to issues of enslavement and colonialism, plantation agriculture in the Americas and the cotton industry of the Indian sub-continent; 3) a co-designed global cotton workers illustration which makes explicit reference to the contributions of enslaved African people and Indian workers to the founding of the Derwent Valley cotton industry. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2016 
Impact Changes to the working practices of the heritage professionals and to the visitor experience at Cromford Mills. The former Director of the DVMWHS stated "The [Global Cotton Connections] group offered new ideas and a challenge to the interpreters their input fed directly into the design of the new Gateway Centre for the World Heritage Site which opened in 2016". The Heritage Manager for the Arkwright Society stated "The information on Global Cotton Connections in the Gateway has taken the story out of the Derwent Valley and given a global context to everything that happened here and the impact it had on lives around the world". Brian Gallagher the artist-illustrator of the co-designed global cotton workers landscape illustration was awarded the Public Realm Professional prize by the Association of Illustrators (AOI) in the World Illustration Awards 2016 for this work at Cromford. 
 
Title DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre, Cromford Mills Phase 2 
Description Archival research from the GCC project and further processes of creative reflection on these historical materials under the PRH project led to the following further co-produced elements fed into Phase 2 of the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre development: 1) a co-produced interpretative panel added to the global workers' mural in response to heritage professional and volunteer guide feedback; 2) a BAME-community volunteer focused interpretative space focused on the links of cotton to the transatlantic slave trade and the Indian sub-continent involving visual and audio materials (the latter described further in the DVD Voices of Global Cotton Connection). This material has been developed collaboratively with the Nottingham-based Slave Trade Legacies group and Sheffield South Asian groups, in liaison with the Arkwright Society and its heritage consultants, Tandem and the DVMWHS. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact The new Visitor Centre materials were positively received by the BAME groups involved in the process and their wider families and friends, the Arkwright Society and the international guests at the PRH celebration event held at Cromford Mills in April 2018. BAME volunteers and their families and friends have reported enhanced self-esteem and self-determination through the process and have been encouraged to visit Cromford more in future: "I'd never been before and now I'm more likely to go and I'm more likely to take people there to see because I've said to people that you haven't been to Cromford and there's wonderful work, I've said you must visit Cromford, make a trip it's a nice place to visit", STL volunteer, 2018. Other visitor feedback is currently being monitored. 
 
Title STL group Global Cotton Connections film 
Description This short film entitled 'Global Cotton Connections - Untangling the Threads of Slavery' has been produced by the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group, made up of people of mainly African Caribbean heritage backgrounds, drawing on its involvement in the Global Cotton Connections project. In the film members of the group reflect on their learning journey as they came to know more about cotton histories and the entanglements with slavery and, through their visits to Derbyshire, how these stories were told in the Derwent Valley mills. The film also includes academic and policy perspectives and historical material produced through the project. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2015 
Impact The film was launched in March 2015 at the Broadway Cinema celebration event for the Slave Trade Legacies Colour of Money HLF project. It was shown to an international and national audience at the GCC Cotton Workshop in April 2015, at the University of Nottingham during Black History Month (Oct 2015) and at the AHRC CC Heritage Network conference in Jan 2016. It was also a key element of the AHRC CC Festival activities hosted by the GCC and the Slave Trade Legacies group at Cromford Mills, Derbyshire on Saturday 20th June 2015. Feedback from the Festival events can be found at https://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/ahrc-connected-communities-festival-event-global-cotton-connections-creative-reflections-feedback-summary/ The Youtube site for the film had 663 views by March 2019. 
URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2QmVmXqP6
 
Title Sheffield Hindu Samaj Heritage group: Poetry collection 
Description The Sheffield Hindu Samaj Heritage group has produced a collection of poetry, entitled 'British Raj in the Peak District: Threads of Connection', edited by a member of the group, Debjani Chatterjee. This draws on work conducted through the group's previous Heritage Lottery Fund project, entitled 'British Raj in the Peak District' and its involvement in the Global Cotton Connections project. The poems in the volume are written by members of the group, many of whom attended writing workshops in the summer of 2014, run by Debjani and funded by the Global Cotton Connections project. The collection was launched at the AHRC Connected Communities Festival events hosted by the Global Cotton Connections project and the Sheffield Hindu Samaj heritage group at Cromford Mills Derbyshire on Saturday 20th June 2015. 
Type Of Art Creative Writing 
Year Produced 2015 
Impact Free copies of the poetry collection have been distributed to Cromford Mills and Belper North Mill in Derbyshire and were distributed to audience members at the CC Festival events in June 2015. Further copies are available while stocks last at Cromford Mills and Belper North Mill Trust Museum or from the Sheffield Hindu Samaj Heritage group. Public performances of the poetry have been hosted at Cromford Mills as part of the AHRC CC Festival 2015. These performances were attended by approximately 80 people, around 25 of mainly Indian heritage background from the wider Sheffield Hindu Samaj, around 30 of mainly African Caribbean heritage from the wider Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies initiative, and around 25 members of the wider general public, including some volunteer guides based at Cromford and Belper mills. A summary of feedback from the Festival day can be found at https://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/ahrc-connected-communities-festival-event-global-cotton-connections-creative-reflections-feedback-summary/ 
URL https://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/celebrating-the-cotton-heritage-legacy-mate...
 
Title Voices of the Global Cotton Connections 
Description A DVD slideshow featuring audio histories about the global cotton connections of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site and project member perspectives on the GCC and PRH projects, supported by illustrations from the projects. The recordings feature: interviews with project representatives from the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies (Vivinne Bramwell) and Sheffield South Asian group (Debjani Chatterjee) volunteers, the PI (Susanne Seymour, University of Nottingham), and the Arkwright Society (Hannah Steggles, Head of Heritage); Sheffield South Asian volunteers' reflections in poetry on cotton connections of the Indian sub-continent; Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies volunteers' reflections on enslaved life on cotton plantations in the Americas, inspired by real life narratives; family testimony from descendants of enslaved African people on the Mount Pleasant Plantation Carriacou which supplied raw cotton to the Strutt family business in the DVMWHS; and Michelle 'Mother' Hubbard reading her poem 'A Sack Full of Cotton', commissioned as part of the GCC project in 2015 and included in the Global Cotton Connections (2015) film. These recordings are slightly expanded versions of those found on the audio points installed in the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford Mills in April 2018. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact Copies of the DVD slideshow were distributed to project members (Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies volunteers; Sheffield South Asian volunteers; the Arkwright Society staff and volunteers; Bright Ideas Nottingham, university partners), the wider family and friends of volunteers and the international guests at the PRH cotton project celebration event held at Cromford Mills on 21 April 2018. 
 
Description The research uncovered archival evidence of global cotton connections in the Derwent and Glossop valleys. A particular case study was made of the Strutt cotton mills in the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Most of their raw cotton came from the Americas and was produced via slave-based systems. A publication on this element of the archival research is now available. The Peak District visits highlighted a lack of information about global cotton connections in heritage venues. The community groups have reflected on archival information and the sites and given feedback to the venues visited. The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site and the Arkwright Society have been given feedback on archival work undertaken in relation to the Derwent Valley Mills, and community group and academic reactions to the sites, tour guide presentations and proposals for a new Gateway Visitor Centre. This new Visitor Centre opened to the public in 2016 and is informed by, and contains reference to, the GCC project's archival research, most notably in relation to raw cotton supplies. The design of the panels also reflects feedback from the project and its associated community groups, the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies Group and the Sheffield Hindu Samaj Heritage group. This important development has therefore made this new heritage facility more globally contextualised and more tailored to a range of ethnically diverse audiences. GCC research and additional archive work has also informed phase 2 interpretative work at the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford, which opened in April 2018.
Exploitation Route Findings related to the archival research in the Derwent Valley have been issued in a book sponsored by The Arkwright Society. This chapter is freely available via the GCC project website and at Cromford Mills which is owned by the Arkwright Society. This means the material is available to inform educational materials and mill tour guides in the Derwent Valley. Key findings from the archival research and diverse ethnic perspectives on cotton which emerged from the GCC's liaison with African-Caribbean and Indian heritage groups are also embedded in the new Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford Mills. This has been open to the public since 1 Feb 2016 and had its official opening on 10 March 2016. The project findings have been presented to community and academic audiences in Derbyshire, Nottingham, Cardiff and London and in 2020 via online events. The contributions by members of the GCC to the DVMWHS Research Framework have also contributed to the development of future research in the area. The Slave Trade Legacies Colour of Money and Global Cotton Connections projects form a Case Study in the Common Cause Research project report, Common Cause: Building Research Collaborations between Universities and Black and Minority Ethnic Communities (2018). There are plans to produce a co-written account of the research from the viewpoints of academic and community participants for publication and in light of the subsequent Practising Reparative Histories grant. The project findings have also fed into the DVMWHS Vital Valley Great Place initiative, including online materials (2017-2021) and the (2019-21) NLHF grant won by Bright Ideas Nottingham and the Slave Trade Legacies group for the Legacy Makers project.
Sectors Creative Economy,Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other
URL http://www.globalcottonconnections.com
 
Description Findings have been used in a WEA course run by Bright Ideas, Nottingham for Slave Trade Legacies group volunteers and other members of the African Caribbean community in Nottingham. They have also been used in meetings, visits and via the blog with the community-based groups in Sheffield (Hindu Samaj) and Nottingham (Slave Trade Legacies). Findings have been used in the development of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford Mills, in the development of new guide narratives at Cromford and Belper Mills, including a new audio-visual narrative about the Global Cotton Workers Mural, in a Children's Guide to the DVMWHS and a research report on the DVMWHS website. These elements have contributed to the economic sustainability of the NGOs running these sites. The community involvement in Nottingham via the Slave Trade Legacies group has also informed the establishment of the Nottingham Black History Society launched in Nov 2016. The findings have informed further Phase 2 development of interpretative materials in the Gateway Visitor Centre of the DVMWHS at Cromford Mills developed as part of the Practising Reparative Histories grant and further archival research undertaken for the Arkwright Society for use at Cromford Mills and for the DVMWHS. The Visitor Centre materials informed by the GCC project have also been consulted by the 'Out of Town audience' strand of the DVMWHS Vital Valley (Great Place) initiative (2017-2021).
First Year Of Impact 2015
Sector Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other
Impact Types Cultural,Societal,Economic
 
Description Consultation over Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Gateway Exhibition Visitor Centre, Cromford
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Feedback from the Global Cotton Connections project and its associated community groups (Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group and Sheffield Hindu Samaj Heritage group) is reflected in the recently opened Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford Mills (1 Feb 2016). This presents a new vision of the Valley's cotton industry connections with colonial developments in India and the Americas, including the Atlantic system of slavery and the displays include new information on global sources of raw cotton provided by the GCC project. Explicit reference to the contributions made by enslaved African people and Indian workers to the founding of the Derwent Valley cotton industry is made in the Centre's new co-designed landscape visualisation which was commented on by the community groups and the academic members of the GCC. In relation to this work and associated work, the Director of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site made the following comment: "Historical interpretation usually has some element of bias, and even if not intentional, can also mislead through omission. The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site was keen to ensure that the role of the transatlantic slave trade and its legacy was reflected in the story of these world-changing mills. The invitation to work with the Global Cotton Connections Project was timely. The group worked with the Belper North Mill Trust and the Arkwright Society at Cromford Mills. The group offered new ideas and a challenge to the interpreters at both sites. At Cromford their input fed directly into the design of the new Gateway Centre for the World Heritage Site which opened in 2016. The group acted as a critical friend to the section of the gallery which focussed on the origin of the raw cotton. Their work on the source of the cotton for Strutt's Belper mills also informed this gallery and expanded the vocabulary of the guides at the Belper Mill."
 
Description Consultation over Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Research Framework, 2 April 2014 (Cromford) and 15 May 2014 (Belper)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description DVMWHS Enslavement Acknowledgement, Diversity and Representation Workshop 8 June 2021
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Research Sub-group
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Input into Arkwright Society's Cromford Mills guides
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The Involvement with the GCC project has assisted the volunteer guides at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire in developing a more global story of cotton to present to visitors. For example, the volunteer manager at Cromford Mills made the following statement: 'We always welcome new or additional research into any aspect of cotton spinning and the textile industry which helps us to expand or reconfirm the stories we tell our visitors. The information on Global Cotton Connections in the Gateway has taken the story out of the Derwent Valley and given a global context to everything that happened here and the impact it had on lives around the world.'
 
Description Natural England workshop 11 Nov 2021
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Royal Geographical Society, Historical Geography Research Group PGR Training event
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Vital Valley (DVMWHS) Scheme Board member
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description AHRC CC Heritage Legacies Workshop Leeds 22-23 May 2014
Amount £300 (GBP)
Organisation University of Aberdeen 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2014 
End 05/2014
 
Description AHRC Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement: Creating Living Knowledge
Amount £87,920 (GBP)
Funding ID AH/P009689/1 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2017 
End 04/2018
 
Description Archival research on Derwent Valley Mills cotton
Amount £4,075 (GBP)
Organisation The Arkwright Society 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2017 
End 12/2018
 
Description BAME Community History and Representing Heritage day event grant 2015-16
Amount £1,700 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2015 
End 07/2016
 
Description Connected Communities Festival 2015
Amount £5,846 (GBP)
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2015 
End 03/2016
 
Description Connected Communities Showcase (London) and additional Knowledge Exchange/Dissemination 2013-14
Amount £11,871 (GBP)
Funding ID 4010001537 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2013 
End 04/2014
 
Description ESRC Festival of Social Science event 2022
Amount £1,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2022 
End 11/2022
 
Description Local Collaboration Fund: Research Grant Co-Development Workshop on Slavery, Cotton and Lace
Amount £800 (GBP)
Organisation University of Nottingham 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2020 
End 03/2020
 
Description New Legacies of Heritage Research: Experiments for Understanding the Outcomes, Impacts and Legacies of Connected Communities Projects 2014
Amount £978 (GBP)
Organisation University of Aberdeen 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2014 
End 12/2014
 
Description The Arkwrights and Slavery: A scoping Report
Amount £3,000 (GBP)
Organisation Derbyshire County Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2021 
End 07/2021
 
Description Sheffield Hindu Samaj Heritage group 
Organisation Hindu Samaj Sheffield & District
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Global Cottons Connections project staff built on the previous University of Sheffield collaboration with the Hindu Samaj heritage group in the Heritage Lottery Fund project, 'British Raj in the Peak District'. Global Cotton Connections has contributed to a second strand of this heritage focused work, adding more historical research information and facilitating further engagement with heritage venues. They have also helped the group realise three key outputs: a poetry collection; a guided trail leaflet and a research poster for use in the group's building.
Collaborator Contribution Sheffield Hindu Samaj have contributed research and learning from their Heritage Lottery Fund project 'British Raj in the Peak District'. They helped organise the GCC visit to Calver Mill (Peak District visit 1). A member of the Hindu Samaj Sheffield has provided professional input into the development of heritage legacy materials through running creative writing workshops funded under the GCC. These were later brought together in a volume of poetry edited by Debjani Chatterjee (2015) entitled 'British Raj in the Peak District: Threads of Connection' (also funded under GCC). The group has also drawn on its experience of walking in the Peak District to develop a leaflet on Indian Heritage Walks in the Peak District.
Impact The main outputs of this collaboration are: the development of the second phase of the Sheffield Hindu Samaj heritage blog; the publication of a volume of poetry entitled, 'British Raj in the Peak District: Threads of Connection'; the production of a free leaflet on Indian Heritage Walks in the Peak District; the production of a research poster for the group's own use; input into the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford Mills. The collaborating disciplines have been geography and history.
Start Year 2014
 
Description The Arkwright Society 
Organisation Cromford Mill
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This official partnership builds on previous collaboration through the GCC project. Under the Practising Reparative Histories project, a representative of the Arkwright Society was a member of the project Steering Group. The PRH project supported the work of The Arkwright Society and the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site (DVMWHS) more broadly through the provision of new interpretative materials on the global cotton story for use in the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre located at Cromford Mills, Derbyshire and on the Arkwright Society website, through facilitating interactions and cultural learning with other project partners, including African Caribbean and South Asian community groups, and through facilitating the sharing of this project work more widely. New archival materials were also provided through funding from HLF through the Arkwright Society. The NLHF project, Legacy Makers, ran a day of Black History month events at Cromford Mills on the connections between the DVM and slavery in October 2019. Susanne Seymour made a presentation on the Strutt family's cotton textile mills and slavery.
Collaborator Contribution A member of the Arkwright Society heritage staff was a Co-Investigator on the Practising Reparative Histories project and sat on the Project Steering group. The Arkwright Society has contributed to the co-design of the cotton-related project activities based in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site (DVMWHS), Derbyshire. The Arkwright Society has hosted community group visits to Cromford Mills and facilitated interactions with its staff and volunteers, contributed exhibition space for the project activities in the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford Mills and on its website, and provided expert input and additional funding in relation to the development of interpretation panels and audio points in the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre. Volunteers and staff from the Arkwright Society manage and provide interpretation of the materials developed through the Global Cotton Connections and Practising Reparative Histories projects. The Arkwright Society hosted a day of Black History month events at Cromford Mills in collaboration with the Bright Ideas-led Legacy Makers project (funded by NLHF) in October 2019.
Impact The main outputs are: Heritage interpretation panels in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site (DVMWHS) Gateway Visitor Centre, Cromford Mills (opened in April 2018); Audio point recordings in the DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre, Cromford Mills (opened in April 2018). Black History Month day event (Oct 2019) as part of the Legacy Makers project. Advisory input into a new visitor film at Cromford Mills (2022). The disciplines involved are: geography, history, heritage.
Start Year 2017
 
Description BAME Community History and Representing Heritage day 7 June 2016 New Art Exchange Nottingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This free day event was organised by Susanne Seymour and was sponsored by the University of Nottingham's Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice (including the Institute for the Study of Slavery (ISOS), the Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R) and the Identities, Citizenship, Equalities and Migration Centre (ICEMIC)) in conjunction with the New Art Exchange, Nottingham. It brought together Midlands-based Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) community groups and freelance researchers to share their historical research and to discuss with academics and heritage representatives how heritage venues might better present BAME histories. The day included presentations on historical research findings and issues of BAME representation, case studies of good practice examples in heritage venues, small displays of historical research and roundtable discussions.
The day encouraged networking between BAME community groups, academics and heritage professionals (including representatives of English Heritage, the Historic Houses Association and the National Trust).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description BHM presentation 25 Oct University of Nottingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Black History Month presentation entitled, 'Making Black Histories Visible in Cotton Heritage Venues in the Derwent Valley', given by Susanne Seymour (University of Nottingham) and Veronica Barnes (Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group volunteer). The purpose was to share and reflect on the past and potential future activities of the Global Cotton Connections project and Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group, particularly in relation to changes made in the cotton mill heritage venues in Derbyshire's Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
There was lively discussion over the strengths and weaknesses of the work and indications that other local Black heritage groups would like to be more actively involved in future projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Black History Month blog - Oct 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Blog introduced the Global Cotton Conections project and the talk and panel discussion given on 31st Oct 2014.

Blog encouraged participation at the talk and panel discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blackhistorymonth/2014/10/22/http:blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blackhistorym...
 
Description Black History Month talk for Belper North Mill Trust, Oct 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Susanne Seymour was invited to speak at this Black History Month event hosted by Belper North Mill Trust. It was advertised by the Trust to its volunteers, members of the DVMWHS team and wider publics. It was intended to disseminate further understanding of the historical research and heritage interpretation work undertaken through the Global Cotton Connections and Practising Reparative Rural Histories projects. The talk entitled, Recognising the contribution of enslaved African lives to the Strutts' cotton spinning industry at Belper: historical research and heritage interpretation in the Derwent Valley, sparked questions and discussion afterwards and on-going interest in the topic area from Belper North Mill Trust volunteers and DVMWHS staff.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.belpertowncouncil.gov.uk/news/2020/10/a-talk-for-black-history-month-by-dr-susanne-seymo...
 
Description Britain's Forgotten Slave-Owners Panel 12 Oct 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The activity was a Panel Discussion accompanying a presentation by David Olusoga on 'Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners'. Susanne Seymour made panel comments from the perspective of her use of the Legacies of British-Slave ownership project findings in her locally and regionally-based research on rural legacies of slavery. Over 50 people attended and there was a strong level of discussion. New contacts were made and previous ones enhanced.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blackhistorymonth/2015/10/13/highlights-from-britains-forgotten-slave-...
 
Description CC Festival 20 June 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Around 80 people attended the events hosted by the Global Cotton Connections project and its associated community groups (Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies and Sheffield Hindu Samaj) as part of the AHRC Connected Communities Festival. These were held on Saturday 20th June 2015 at Cromford Mills under the title 'Global Cotton Connections: Creative Encounters'. The purpose was to share a range of GCC-related outputs, particularly those produced by the associated community groups, with general public visitors to Cromford Mills and wider diverse communities bussed in from Nottingham and Sheffield. Activities involved three sessions (10am, 12noon and 2pm) of the 'Global Cotton Connections: Untangling the Threads of Slavery' film show and 'British Raj in the Peak District: Threads of Connection' poetry readings hosted by the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group and Sheffield Hindu Samaj cultural group held in the Exhibition room at Cromford Mills. This room also displayed wider materials produced as part of the Global Cotton Connections project, including a poster created by the Sheffield Hindu Samaj group also drawing on their HLF project work, and work on textiles from the AHRC Legacies of Rural Slavery and Colonialism scoping project. These events were attended by about 25 members of the wider public (including some volunteer mill guides) and around 55 people of mainly African Caribbean or Indian heritage background associated with the wider Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group, facilitated by Bright Ideas Nottingham, and the Sheffield Hindu Samaj cultural group, brought to the site by coach. These participants also had the opportunity to take guided tours at Cromford and Belper. They were asked to identify the main things they gained from the day. Most (27 out of 44, 10 from Nottingham, 17 from Sheffield) referred to gaining new knowledge of the cotton mills or cotton industry more broadly, with reference to cotton connections (6 mentions) particularly between the mills and India (4 mentions), cotton origins (2 mentions) and the role of the slave trade (2 mentions). A number of participants (7), mostly from the Nottingham group, highlighted gains from sharing, solidarity and meeting like-minded people. A small number (3) referred to the rewards of seeing the impact of their research projects in the mill venues. Comments from the general public were positive and included 'great to hear the 'hidden' histories'; 'inspiring'; 'excellent experience'; 'wanted more!'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/
 
Description Consultation with Glossop Heritage Trust, May 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Discussion of Global Cotton Connections project and how Glossop Heritage Trust might be involved.

Outline of interest in the Dinting Vale Calico Printing Works and its late 19th/early 20th century history.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Derby Museums: In Conversation Audio interview, Feb 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Susanne Seymour was invited to take part Derby Museum's 'In Conversation' audio interview series. She spoke with Derby Museums' Executive Director Tony Butler about her research on the histories and legacies of historical transatlantic slavery in cotton mills and rural estates in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire and initiatives to tell these stories in heritage sites. The purpose was to share details of this research and to promote further understanding of the the impacts of slavery and colonialism in the countryside and its on-going legacies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.derbymuseumsfromhome.com/podcast/in-conversation-tony-butler-and-dr-susanne-seymour
 
Description Display stand at Scence in the Park Festival, Castleton 1 Nov 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Stand sparked interest from visitors who asked questions and took away information. It also generated interest amongst other participating groups.

Display materials retained by Peak Park for use on 8th Nov 2014.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Evans talk for Legacy Makers project, Darley Abbey Derbyshire, 27 July 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Presentation to the Legacy Makers (National Lottery Heritage Fund) project participants and members of the public, including many from BME backgrounds and local residents, at Darley Abbey, Derbyshire on 'Slavery and supplies of raw cotton to the Evans family in the Derwent Valley' on 27/7/19. The purpose was to provide a baseline of existing research on the topic from which the archival research of the Legacy Makers project could build. The Legacy Makers project is on-going.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://legacymakers.home.blog/blog-feed/
 
Description Festival of Social Science 2022: Remembering transatlantic cotton workers 12 Nov 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Film shows and panel discussion with community partners, Legacy Makers and Rachel Carter reflecting on the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery and female employment in the East Midlands textile industries. The films were made through the Legacy Makers NHLF project on Darley Abbey Mills in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, Derbyshire and Rachel Carter's Arts Council project Standing in This Place. The latter film was also supported by a small grant from the Political Geography funding hub, School of Geography, University of Nottingham. The event attracted a strong audience of c.70 people, many of African Caribbean heritage, and positive audience engagement and subsequent feedback, such as "I'm much more well informed about the project and learnt details about the slave trade legacy that I didn't know before ! Keep up the good work guys !" and "It made me realise that there were a number of further ways in which I could join in the work of these groups ... and finding out how to spread/share ideas and ensure the work is ongoing".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://festivalofsocialscience.com/events/remembering-transatlantic-cotton-workers-the-enslaved-and...
 
Description GCC International Cotton Workshop: 17-19 April 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This international workshop brought together international, national, regional and local participants to discuss 'Cotton, textiles and their legacies: histories and geographies of production, consumption and heritage'. It consisted of two days of presentations by academics, heritage practitioners and local community participants in the GCC project. The scope of the 2 day workshop covered cotton and textile history and heritage in the Americas, Africa and Asia as well as Britain. Members of the Sheffield Hindu Samaj heritage group and the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies groups both presented, the former covering material from their wider work on Indian textiles in Derbyshire as well as readings from their collection of poetry, while the latter presented and discussed their film: 'Global Cotton Connections: Untangling the Threads of Slavery'. The field visit day included international, national and GCC participants to key Derwent Valley cotton mill heritage sites to enable further discussion and reflection on how cotton histories are currently told. New connections were made between academics from different parts of the world and between the community groups, heritage professionals and academics. These new connections are informing future local and planned future international activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com
 
Description GCC Nottingham Community Workshop 2:15 Nov 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Workshop involving the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group to help develop key heritage outputs following field visits to Derwent Valley. Susanne Seymour (GCC PI) provided an update on the wider GCC project activities (archival, conferences) and on consultations with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site over the Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford Mills and with the Arkwright Society over materials for guides. The group shared experiences and ideas from involvement in the GCC and STL projects to date. The group viewed the film clips made to date, including material from the field visits and interviews, and discussed how to progress with producing the final film. Further ideas for the development of creative materials were also discussed. Two members of the Sheffield Hindu Samaj heritage group also attended and shared their reflections on the GCC project and some of the poetry created by the group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description GCC Sheffield Community Workshop 2: 22 Nov 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Workshop involving the Sheffield Hindu Samaj group to help develop key heritage outputs following field visits to Derwent Valley and other summer writing workshop activities.
Lowri Jones (GCC researcher) provided an update on the wider GCC project activities (archival, conferences) and developments in relation to the
consultations with the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site over the Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford Mills and with the Arkwright Society over materials for guides. The group shared experiences and ideas from involvement in the GCC project and their own HLF project to date and discussed how to progress with the proposed poetry collection and Peak District trail leaflets. Two members of the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group also attended and shared their reflections on the GCC project and the film project being undertaken by their group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Global Cotton Connections Peak District field visit 2 (5 July 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Participants from Sheffield and Nottingham shared their experiences of Masson and Cromford Mills, particularly in relation to the global cotton story but also with respect to local mill workers and textiles produced.
Sheffield participants combined their further examination of the site with a poetry activity. They made some detailed critique of current information about India.
Nottingham participants had the opportunity to ask further questions of the Arkwright Society Education Officer as part of their further examination of the site. Disappointment at the coverage of slavery issues was again expressed.
Both groups reflected in their discussion sessions on how the proposed DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre at Cromford might cover Indian (Sheffield group) and slavery (Nottingham group) cotton connections. The Nottingham group reflected specifically on portraits of black people proposed by the Visitor Centre consultants and on alternative portraits and images put together by the GCC team. The discussion was very rich and the group was pleased to be asked to put forward views. However, little support was shown for the portraits proposed for use in the Visitor Centre. None of the alternative portraits or cotton plantation images presented were found to be suitable either. Disquiet was expressed at the manner in which the Visitor Centre consultants had engaged only late in the day with the GCC and diverse heritage groups and the short time-scale of this informal consultation. It was felt that consultation with diverse heritage groups and historical experts on global aspects of cotton should have been integrated into the Visitor Centre development plans from the beginning. This omission was thought to be particularly surprising as the visitor centre has HLF backing. Unfortunately this experience of late, informal consultation served to reinforce the idea that diverse heritage groups and their perspectives are under-recognised in cotton heritage sites.

The Sheffield group's critique of the representation of the cotton story in relation to India was fed back to the DVMWHS, the Arkwright Society and the consultants working on the proposed DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre.
The Nottingham group's critique, informed by an additional discussion session organised by Bright Ideas, was fed back to the DVMWHS, the Arkwright Society and the consultants working on the proposed DVMWHS Gateway Visitor Centre.
Other GCC team members consulted further with exp
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/
 
Description Global Cotton Connections Twitter account (set up 3 Mar 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Tweeting on Global Cotton Connections Project activities.

Responses to twitter from a range of local, regional, national and international followers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/
 
Description Global Cotton Connections blog post (from 5 March 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Public access to information on blog.

Public access to information on blog.
Requests for further information.
Twitter comments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014,2015,2016
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/
 
Description Global Cotton Connections presentation, DVMWHS Partnership Forum, 4 June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Short presentation entitled 'Global Cotton Connections: Histories, Legacies and Diverse Communities', an update on past and future research, made to the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Partnership Forum day event on 4 June 2019. The audience included a mix of heritage and local authority professionals, including those working with schools, members of the public and other groups with an interest in the World Heritage Site. The talk generated discussion and interest in the GCC research to date and future developments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Global Cotton Connections presentation, National Museum of Wales, 9 July 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation entitled 'Challenging rural textile heritage? Collaborative strategies between academics, BAME communities and heritage professionals in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, UK', at the 'Clothing the Enslaved in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World' conference held at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 8-10 July 2019. The audience was a combination of academics, heritage professionals and community volunteers. The presentation generated questions and discussion and helped develop new contacts with community projects, including the NLHF project, 'From Sheep to Sugar'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Global Cotton Connections project Peak District visit 1 (31st May 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Participants shared their experiences of Indian and Caribbean plants and landscapes and reflected on the rural context of Calver Mill and their experiences of being in the countryside.
Participants discussed the coverage of global perspectives on the cotton story at Cromford Mill. Concern was expressed at the lack of information on raw cotton supplies and the places, people and production systems which generated them. Members of the Slave Trade Legacies group were particularly upset at the lack of reference to slave-produced cotton, the enslaved Africans who produced it and the wider system of Transatlantic slavery, including the Slave Trade, which facilitated this. Members of the Hindu Samaj discussed ways in which British colonial policy in relation to Indian textiles impacted on the Indian cotton industry and helped stimulate cotton textile production in the Derwent Valley.
Participants were relieved to find more information on the global cotton story at Belper North Mill Museum, including the sourcing of raw cotton from the Americas and India and a connection acknowledged between Belper cotton thread and textile production and the slave trade. Lively discussions were held with the guides leading the three tour groups though coverage of slavery issues was felt to be variable. Participants discussed whether guides felt uncomfortable talking about the slave trade and colonial issues.
Participants collected materials (photos, film, textiles) to help inform heritage legacy outputs.

After this visit both groups were determined in their desire to see changes to the presentation of the cotton story at cotton mill heritage venues. Feedback on the visits, highlighting frustration at the lack of coverage of global perspectives on cotton, was sent by the GCC to the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, the Arkwright Society and Belper North Mill Museum. In particular this highlighted the negative experience of the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group due to the lack of ackno
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/peak-district-site-visits-1/
 
Description Hindu Samaj Heritage blog part II (from 7 Mar 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Sharing Global Cotton Connections project activities with the wider Hindu Samaj group and with the public.

Sharing Global Cotton Connections project activities with the wider Hindu Samaj group and with the public.
Media interest in the Hindu Samaj heritage work in the Peak District.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014,2015
URL http://heritagehindusamaj.wordpress.com/
 
Description History workshops for Rachel Carter's Standing in This Place project 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact History workshops for participants in Rachel Carter's Standing in This Place project, funded by the Arts Council. The talks focused on the experiences of enslaved female cotton plantation workers in the Americas and female cotton mill workers in the East Midlands. The talks informed the Dance and Movement group aspects of the project which formed the basis for Rachel's sculpture output.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.rachelcarter.co.uk/community
 
Description London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, 8 Oct 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Presentation entitled 'Practising reparative historical geographies of enslavement in rural heritage sites in the English East Midlands' made to the London Group of Historical Geographers on 8 October 2019 in its series on Geographies of Slavery and Freedom. The audience included scholars and practitioners from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The talk generated questions and discussion on reparative heritage and community engagement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Making Slave Trade Legacies Visible in British Heritage Venues blog Oct 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A blog by Susanne Seymour entitled 'Making Slave Trade Legacies Visible' was posted on the University of Nottingham's Black History Month events page to provide background to the Film Shows hosted by the Slave Trade Legacies group and Susanne Seymour as part of these events.
It is not clear how many people have read the blog but the site is publically available.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blackhistorymonth/2015/10/15/making-slave-trade-legacies-visible-in-br...
 
Description Media interest: BBC Radio Nottingham 18 May 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Susanne Seymour from the University of Nottingham and Danielle Wood-Wallace from Bright Ideas talked about the Slave Trade Legacies initiative and the Global Cotton Connections project on Reya El Salahi's Sunday evening show aimed at African and Caribbean audience.
Programme sparked comments amongst colleagues and Global Cotton Connections project participants.

Comments from people who had heard the programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/back-to-blogging-2-events/
 
Description Media interest: Kemet fm Slave Trade Legacies show (Nottingham local radio) 30 Oct 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Show included the Director of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, Mark Suggitt, community members of the Slave Trade Legacies group and Susanne Seymour, PI of the Global Cotton Connections project.
Show generated twitter comment and feedback from public.

Comments from people involved in the programme or who had listened to it.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://www.facebook.com/cottonslavelegacies
 
Description Media interest: Kemet fm Talkback show (Nottingham local radio) 11 May 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Two hour show on local BME community radio with a range of guests involved in the launch of the Slave Trade Legacies initiative. Susanne Seymour represented the Global Cotton Connections project.
Programme generated audience phone-in questions and twitter feedback.

Helped raise profile of Global Cotton Connections project and Slave Trade Legacies initiative.
Encourage people to attend the launch on the following day.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/back-to-blogging-2-events/
 
Description Meeting with National Trust at Quarry Bank Mill Cheshire, 22 March 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact This event allowed Susanne Seymour (GCC) and a member of the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group to meet with the National Trust who manage Quarry Bank Mill a well-known and well-preserved cotton mill in Cheshire to share the outcomes of the GCC project and to view the displays relating to global cotton connections at Quarry Bank Mill. The visit sparked interest from the National Trust in the historical research and the materials created by the GCC partner community groups (of which copies were distributed). The potential for future collaboration between the National Trust and the GCC was noted, particularly in relation to a future themed 'India' year proposed by the Trust. Quarry Bank Mill was confirmed as a venue of interest to the wider collaborating community groups and a group visit there has been built into the Practising Reparative History grant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Mill guides meeting 13 Mar 2016, Cromford Mills 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact This event was held to facilitate sharing between the GCC project members and its associated community groups and the volunteer mill guides who run tours at Cromford Mills and Belper North Mill in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The activity involved Susanne Seymour (GCC), one member of the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group, two members of the Sheffield Hindu Samaj and five volunteer guides, plus the Arkwright Society guides coordinator.We discussed the historical materials produced by the project, the poetry and Indian walks leaflets of the Sheffield Hindu Samaj and the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies film (which was shown). Guides also spoke about the impacts of what they had heard for their work and here the STL film made a strong impact. illustrative comments from the guides were: "Enlightening to discuss the global impact of the mills + cotton industry + that it's relevant to all of our visitors and our chance to tell all of those stories"; "Will raise profile of slaves/slavery in future tours. Will double check that visitors understand implications of origins of cotton".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/
 
Description New Lanark A Living Legacy conference presentation 2 Mar 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Helen Bates and Lisa Robinson presentation at New Lanark, A Living Legacy conference. Presentation title: 'Engaging with the textile industry's challenging histories of slavery and colonialism: The Global Cotton Connections projects in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site' and roundtable discussion on Challenging Histories in Industrial Heritage.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Nottingham Global Cotton Connections consultation meeting with Director of Bright Ideas Nottingham, 3 April 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting helped develop collaboration with Bright Ideas Nottingham over Slave Trade Legacies initiative and planning for the integration of the Nottingham aspect of the Global Cotton Connections project into this umbrella initiative.

Facilitation of joint launch of the Nottingham element of the Global Cotton Connections project and The Colour of Money HLF project under the Slave Trade Legacies banner.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/back-to-blogging-1-connecting-collaborating-...
 
Description Nottingham Global Cotton Connections start-up workshop (under Slave Trade Legacies banner) (12 May 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Participants asked questions about the purpose and activities of the Global Cotton Connections project.
Participants shared their knowledge of and experience of visiting the Peak District and heritage venues and made suggestions on how the latter should change.
Participants shared their views on slave trade legacies.
Participants made suggestions for other areas of research within the Slave Trade Legacies programme.
Twenty people expressed an interest in further participation in Global Cotton Connections project activities.

This start-up workshop facilitated the on-going participation of a group of 15-20 people of African-Caribbean heritage in the Global Cotton Connections project. It also was key in developing the GCC relationship with the Nottingham based community enterprise Bright Ideas and its Heritage Lottery funded project The Colour of Money. The collaboration between the two groups has been managed under a 'Slave Trade Legacies' banner. Participants in either/both projects have subsequently come to self-i
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/
 
Description Paper presentation and participation at AHRC CC 'Heritage Legacies' workshop Leeds 22-23 May 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk prompted questions and discussion, particularly around the challenges of involving BAME groups in heritage projects.

The activity helped develop relationship with community collaborator.
The Global Cotton Connections (GCC) project made an offer of a contribution to a proposed edited volume.
Susanne Seymour applied for a Heritage Legacies small grant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/
 
Description Paper presentation at 'The Industrial Revolution' academic conference, Arkwright Society, Cromford, Derbyshire 4th Oct 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The audience included the Director of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site and a number of volunteer guides for the Arkwright Society and other mill venues in the Derwent Valley. The talk sparked questions, reflections and requests for further information.

The talk has helped further contact with mill guides at Cromford and the Global Cotton Connections project is liaising with an Arkwright Society consultant over the content of new guide materials.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/sharing-our-research/
 
Description Paper presentation at the RGS-IBG 2014 Annual conference London 27 Aug 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The talk generated lively discussion and questions, particularly around the BAME community engagement issues.
New contacts were made.

Presenting the talk helped refine the project thinking on community engagement and heritage.
New contacts suggested further literature to consult.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/
 
Description Podcast: Cotton: where did it come from? 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Podcast for Rachel Carter's Standing in This Place Arts Council-funded project focused on developing a sculpture of an enslaved female cotton plantation worker from the Americas and a female cotton mill worker from the East Midlands, working with community groups.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
URL https://www.rachelcarter.co.uk/sitppodcast
 
Description Poster presentation, The Business of Slavery conference (ISOS), Nottingham 17-19 Sept 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Type Of Presentation poster presentation
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The poster sparked discussions about the Global Cotton Connections project, sources of raw cotton, the relationship between demand for cotton and the Brazilian slave trade, the nature of industrialists's attitudes to slavery.

New contacts made.
New materials on Brazil accessed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/sharing-our-research/
 
Description Presentation and panel discussion for Black History Month, Nottingham, 31 Oct 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The talk and panel discussion prompted a series of questions about the archival and community aspects of the work.

Academics in the audience expressed an interest in inviting the Slave Trade Legacies group back to the University to talk further about their experiences on the projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/free-public-lecture-311014/
 
Description Presentation at BAME Heritage Day 7 June 2016 Nottingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Susanne Seymour (GCC project) and Veronica Barnes and Charles Washington (Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group) presented and led a discussion on 'Making global cotton histories visible in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site'. This enabled the sharing of recent impacts from the GCC and NSTL group work (particularly in terms of new displays in the DVMWHS Visitor Centre and changed attitudes of mill interpretation staff) with wider BAME communities and volunteers from the NSTL group. It also allowed reflection on the processes of Black community group involvement in the GCC project and outcomes in mill sites in the Derwent Valley with ideas on how to develop these elements further.
This discussion informed the development of the AHRC Practising Reparative Histories grant application.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Presentation at International Conference of Historical Geographers conference, London July 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Susanne Seymour presented a paper entitled: 'Making reparative historical geographies: reconnecting cotton textile production past and present in the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire, UK. Questions and feedback were received from academics from Europe and the Americas as well as the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Presentation at Legacies of British Slave-ownership Regional Workshop, Nottingham 19 Sept 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Susanne Seymour presented on 'Slavery Legacies in the Rural and Provincial East Midlands: Country Estates and Textiles'.
Lisa Robinson (Bright Ideas Nottingham) and Helen Bates (University of Leicester) and the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies initiative presented on 'Legacies of the Slave Trade in and around Nottinghamshire', including the activities undertaken at Newstead Abbey. Both of the short films (Global Cotton Connections and The Colour of Money) made by the STL group were presented at the event. Both sessions generated further discussion of slavery and its representation and helped build and sustain activity amongst African diaspora groups in Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://lbsatucl.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/nottingham-workshop/
 
Description Presentation at RGS-IBG Annual conference session on Decolonsing Participatory Geographies, London, 30 Aug 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The presentation entitled 'Decolonising without recolonising?: practising reparative historical geographies in rural heritage sites' was co-delivered by Susanne Seymour (University of Nottingham) and Lisa Robinson (Bright Ideas, Nottingham). Lisa was a non-academic activist guest of the Participatory Geographers Research Group for this Fuller Geographies session on 'Decolonising Participatory Geographies'. The purpose was to examine the challenges of research and engagement collaborations which seek to enhance the coverage of colonial, enslavement and Black histories in rural heritage venues, as a form of 'reparative' work (see Bergin and Rupprecht, 2016; Beckles, 2012). It considered especially the challenges of collaborations between academia and heritage organisations, typically characterised by few BAME employees and dominated by white-centred ways of thinking (Alexander and Arday, 2015; BOP Consulting, 2012) and BAME community groups and organisations. The presentation and discussion was attended by c.30 international conference delegates and generated many questions and further discussion in and beyond the session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Presentation at RGS-IBG session on Participatory Geographies: Academia and Activism, Aug 2016 London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This involved a presentation entitled, 'Making Black Hidden Histories visible in Cotton Heritage Venues: Reflections on the process from academic and community perspectives' by Susanne Seymour (University of Nottingham) and Charles Washington (Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies group). The session included academics, postgraduate students and non-academic activists. The discussion sparked interest into the nature of the collaboration from the audience and further reflection on future collaborations between the presenters.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Presentation at The Arkwright Society conference, 7 Nov 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Invited presentation at The Arkwright Society conference (2020) Hidden Histories of the Industrial Revolution: Enslaved People and Women. Talk entitled The Derwent Valley and the threads of enslavement: the Strutts' early cotton manufacturing business. The purpose was to share the research from the Global Cotton Connections and Practising Reparative Rural Histories projects with Arkwright Society members, staff and wider publics. The talk sparked a number of further questions and online discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.cromfordmills.org.uk/events/arkwright-society-industrial-revolution-conference-%E2%80%98...
 
Description Presentation at the CC Heritage Network symposium, Lincoln, 14 Jan 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation by Susanne Seymour on 'Making reparative historical geographies; reconnecting cotton textile production past and present in the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire UK'.
Showing of the Slave Trade Legacies group film, Global Cotton Connections: Untangling the Threads of Slavery by a member of the group and Susanne Seymour.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.heritagenetwork.dmu.ac.uk/symposium/
 
Description Press release: Project announcement Global Cotton Connections, on University of Nottingham's Institute for the Study of Slavery website, 7 March 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Press release generated interest from ISOS colleagues.

A colleague from ISOS joined the advisory group of the project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/isos/news/global-cotton-connections.aspx
 
Description Sharing and Sustaining Black Heritage Research in Nottingham 13 Dec 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The main purpose of the workshop was to enhance the legacies of a range of Black heritage research being undertaken by different groups and individuals in Nottingham. Specific challenges the day sought to address were: how can the achievements of a project be sustained and built upon after the main period of funding has ended? how can people brought together through a particular project continue their collaboration? how can the resources/materials generated be effectively managed into the future? The strategy was to bring together a range of people interested in Black heritage research to share and discuss the work they have undertaken so far, including collaborations involved, the challenges faced and successes achieved, and ways of moving forward. The workshop included sessions on sharing past achievements in which six people/groups presented (some academic, some community), discussing experiences, successes and challenges of university-community collaborations, sharing ideas on sustaining and managing people and resources beyond project funding, sharing new research ideas and suggesting ways forward. The format was designed to allow participants to engage actively in presentations and smaller-scale discussions and a research 'speed-dating' session was held. . Twenty-one people participated in total, including members of the African diaspora, volunteers from Heritage Lottery fund projects, university academics, and a HLF representative. The event succeeded in bringing different groups and individuals together, some of whom had previously collaborated, others who had not, and was experimental in this respect. This included making links between those with project ideas and potential funders. A proposal was taken to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies for a Nottingham workshop as part of their series 'What's Happening in Black British History?' but the organisers were not able to commit to this as part of their programme at that time. Notes from the meeting were circulated to participants. Subsequent developments have been the emergence of the Nottingham Black History Society (2016) which is supported by some of those attending this workshop and the securing of funding for a BAME Community History and Heritage Representation day event (7 June 2016) hosted by University of Nottingham and the New Art Exchange Nottingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Sheffield Global Cotton Connections Consultation meeting with Hindu Samaj Sheffield 1 May 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Meeting to discuss rationale of the Global Cotton Connections project and plan for the first workshop.

Planning for Sheffield start-up workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://heritagehindusamaj.wordpress.com/
 
Description Sheffield Global Cotton Connections Consultation meeting with Hindu Samaj Sheffield 14 June 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact Meeting allowed reflection on first joint Peak District visit and planning for second visit.

Plans for second Peak District visit activities and additional summer workshops.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://heritagehindusamaj.wordpress.com/
 
Description Sheffield Global Cotton Connections project 'People and Places' dialogues and monologues workshop (9 Aug 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The workshop facilitated the development of a range of writing reflecting on the people that inhabited the pasts that we have looked at together, including mill workers, cotton pickers, and Edward Carpenter.

The materials will be used as part of the legacy material outputs of the GCC project.
Legacy materials posted on Hindu Samaj heritage blog.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://heritagehindusamaj.wordpress.com/
 
Description Sheffield Global Cotton Connections project 'People and Places' poetry workshop (28 June 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Workshop generated a range of creative writing around the photographs.

The materials will be used as part of the legacy material outputs of the GCC project.
Legacy materials posted on Hindu Samaj heritage blog.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://heritagehindusamaj.wordpress.com/
 
Description Sheffield Global Cotton Connections project 'People and Places' song lyric workshop (26 July 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The workshop facilitated the development of song lyrics related to history of cotton connections between India and Peak District.

The materials will be used as part of the legacy material outputs of the GCC project.
Legacy materials posted on Hindu Samaj heritage blog.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://heritagehindusamaj.wordpress.com/
 
Description Sheffield Global Cotton Connections start-up workshop: Hindu Samaj Heritage project phase II (16 May 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Participants discussed the Global Cotton Connections project and how it linked to the previous HLF project on the 'British Raj in the Peak District'.
Participants asked questions about the new historical material presented on sources of raw cotton used in the Peak District textile industry and shared their perspectives on raw cotton production in India.
Participants shared their experiences of previous visits to the Peak District and engagements with the Peak District National Park rangers and the Arkwright Society.
Participants discussed future research ideas around silk.
Participants discussed possible heritage legacy materials which they could produce.

This meeting has led to the on-going involvement of 10-15 members of the Hindu Samaj cultural group in the activities of the Global Cotton Connections project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://heritagehindusamaj.wordpress.com/
 
Description Slave Trade Legacies (covering Colour of Money and Global Cotton Connections projects) community Facebook page set up (6 Mar 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Facebook activity reflecting on different aspects of the Slave Trade Legacies initiative, including the Global Cotton Connections aspects.

Sharing of views on events and 'learning journey'.
Wider publicity and comments about the projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL https://www.facebook.com/cottonslavelegacies
 
Description Slave Trade Legacies (covering Colour of Money and Global Cotton Connections projects) community blog website set up (May 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Sharing information on Slave Trade Legacies projects, including Global Cotton Connections project encouraged participation in activities.

Questions and comments on blog pages
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://slavetradelegacies.wordpress.com
 
Description Slave Trade Legacies Film Screening and Celebration event 21 Mar 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The event was hosted by Bright Ideas Nottingham principally to celebrate the Slave Trade Legacies HLF project, The Colour of Money' and to show the film made in association with this project. The event also screened an early version of the STL's group film 'Global Cotton Connections: Untangling the Threads of Slavery' (made as part of the Global Cotton Connections project). Susanne Seymour gave a short talk in relation to the latter film and GCC project and participated in questions. The event generated further interest in the GCC project and the STL films.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://slavetradelegacies.wordpress.com/time-line-our-year-the-colour-of-money/
 
Description Slave Trade Legacies Film showings and discussion 19 Oct 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The event involved the screening of the two films made by the Slave Trade Legacies group ('Global Cotton Connections' and 'The Colour of Money') and a discussion of their critique of representation of histories of slavery in heritage venues. It was held as part of Black History Month events hosted by the University of Nottingham. The discussion panel included members of the Slave Trade Legacies group and Susanne Seymour. The debate generated questions about the films, their impacts and the wider project work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Stakeholder meeting with Arkwright Society Education Officer, Cromford 4 April 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussion of planned activities and of potential ways in which the Global Cotton Connections project could feed into educational activities at Cromford Mills.

After this meeting the Education Officer helped facilitate the community group visits to Cromford.
During the community groups site visits he interacted with participants over lunch, walked around the site with participants and answered participant questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/back-to-blogging-1-connecting-collaborating-...
 
Description Stakeholder meeting with Director of Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site 26 Feb 2014 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussion generated further contacts in Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
Information and plans shared.

Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site facilitated community visits at Cromford.
Director invited further collaborations over Global Cotton Connections research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://globalcottonconnections.wordpress.com/2014/03/
 
Description Strutt talk for Legacy Makers' Black History Month event, Cromford Mills, Derbyshire, 26 Oct 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Presentation on 'Slavery and supplies of raw cotton to the Derwent Valley Mills: a case study of the Strutt family' as part of a day of Black History events on 26 Oct 2019, hosted at Cromford Mills, Derbyshire and organised through the Legacy Makers project. The purpose was to inform a general audience about slavery connections of the cotton industry of the Derwent Valley. The audience of c.40 included BME participants, including members of the Legacy Makers project and their friends and families, volunteers and staff from Cromford Mills and visitors from the wider public. The talk generated a series of questions about the Strutts and slavery and provided further context for the Legacy Makers project archival work on the Evans family which is on-going.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://legacymakers.home.blog/blog-feed/
 
Description Talk on Strutts to Derbyshire Record Society and Derbyshire VCH Trust, Matlock, Derbyshire, 13 July 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Presentation to the annual meeting of the Derbyshire Record Society and Derbyshire Victoria County History Trust on 'Slavery and supplies of raw cotton to the Strutt Mills in the Derwent Valley, 1790s-1810s' on 13 July 2019. The talk was attended by c.30 members and supporters of the organisations and generated several questions, considerable discussion and increased interest in the subject area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description The Colour of Money discussion Kemetfm, Nottingham 3 July 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Member of panel on Kemet.fm Talk-Back show to discuss the Nottingham Slave Trade Legacies initiative and The Colour of Money project which was a finalist in the National Lottery Heritage awards 2016.
The activity was designed to discuss and share the impacts of The Colour of Money project (funded by HLF) supported by work from the AHRC Historicising and Reconnecting Rural Community an d Global Cotton Connections projects. It was also designed to encourage voting for the project as a finalist in the National Lottery Heritage awards 2016.
This two hour event generated interest from listeners and callers amongst Nottingham's Black community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description WEA Slave Trade Legacies course, Nottingham: workshop on Global Cotton Connections (24 Oct 2014) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Participants discussed the historical information on raw cotton sources, considering Brazil and the slave trade to South America, the importance of Carriacou as a supply of raw cotton, the views of cotton mill owners, the legacies of the project.
A workshop discussion generated ideas for top tips for cotton heritage guides.
Participants reflected on their 'learning journey' as part of the STL initiative.
Participants discussed the clips of film, including from the GCC events, and gave feedback on the approaches.
The course included some members of the STL group who were not previously involved in GCC activities.

A workshop discussion generated ideas for top tips for cotton heritage guides.
A working group of community participants was set up to guide the film editing further.
Panellists were confirmed for the Black History Month event on 31st Oct 2014.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
URL http://slavetradelegacies.wordpress.com