Writing on the Wall and the Liverpool Records Office, have been awarded a grant to bring to public access two collections relating to Liverpool’s Black History
Thanks to the National Archives, the Wolfson Foundation and the Pilgrim Trust for awarding WoW and the Liverpool Records Office a grant of £39,724.
This project aims to bring in to public access, two nationally significant collections relating to Liverpool’s Black History. The L8 Law Centre and LARCAA were anti-racist organisations, central to the defence and empowerment of Liverpool’s communities, living under extreme institutional racism in one of the country’s poorest areas.
The collections speak of the inner-city uprisings of 1980 – 1985 which swept the UK, of the conditions that gave rise to those events and of the tenacity of Liverpool’s black community, one of the oldest in Europe and distinct in its development.
The collections were created between the late 1970s to till circa 2010 and they provide primary sources for a period that has been under-researched and which still requires full academic scrutiny.
Writing on the Wall (WoW) supported by Liverpool Records Office (LRO) will employ a full-time professional archivist who will work with a steering committee comprised of community members and academics to review, appraise and structure the collections and bring them into the public domain.
WoW will work with the steering committee to celebrate this achievement, ensuring that awareness is raised, locally, nationally, and internationally of the availability of the collections at Liverpool Central Library.
See the WoW website here.