About Newsflash: Heritage Chronicles

Project Summary

A new Croydon Supplementary Education Project initiative that offers the community an opportunity to participate in a range of free interactive intergenerational learning activities for ‘understanding and remembering slavery’.

Working with Historians, Researchers, Lecturers, Archives & Museums to work with students, service users and the local community during an eighteen month project via four strands of :

• Introductory Lectures
• Themed Workshops
• Showcases
• Heritage Trails

By exploring the key Learning Outcomes of:

• How the “Transatlantic Slave Trade” began
• The major players in the trade: “Movers & Shakers”
• The beneficiaries of the trade: “Triangle Effect”
• How the Trade was abolished: “The British & African Abolitionists”
• Today’s Traditions & Customs that have evolved from Transatlantic Slavery

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