Event title:

Culture Cafe - 'Migration and the Port City of Hull'

Event details

Event details

Date:
Saturday, 20th January 2018
Time:
11:00 - 13:00
Location:
Allam Lecture Theatre
Campus:
Hull Campus
Categories:
  Hull: Culture, History, Place - Series 2  

Event description

Event description

Culture Café - Hull: Culture, History, Place - Series 2 

Venue now changed to Allam Lecture Theatre in the Derwent Building in the Hull University Business School complex. Campus map link below.  

The second series of talks celebrating the University of Hull's new book written for the City of Culture year and published by the Liverpool University Press. The book is a celebration of this unique city's past and present. Telling the story of Hull from the earliest settlement on the muddy banks of the river, through civil war rebellion, maritime success and the trauma of the Second World War to post-war resilience and recovery, this book shows how and why Hull has been a place of significance and success over many centuries.

Title: Migration and the Port City of Hull

Speaker: Dr Nicholas J. Evans, Lecturer in History, University of Hull

Date: Saturday 20/01/2018

Venue: Allam Lecture Theatre, Hull University Business School, Campus Map 

Time: 11am – 1pm

Description:

The opening event of Hull being the 2017 UK City of Culture was an amazing series of installations across the city. Visited by an estimated 320,000 people they explored Hull's rich heritage as a maritime and cultural melting pot. One of the most poignant installations, Arrivals and Departures, projected onto The Deep the story that Hull was a major migrant entrepot between 1815 and 2017. This illustrated talk explores the history behind the City of Culture's installation – work that has occupied migrant historian Dr Nick Evans for the past two decades – namely that Hull played a crucial role in facilitating numerous waves of migrants from Europe, the Middle East and further afield. Whether arriving as migrants, refugees or merely transiting the port, these millions of migrants collectively shaped Hull. So many arrived each day that it made the port one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Britain and, some have argued, the Heathrow airport of its day.

Cost: Free Admission – All welcome but booking is required.

Enquiries: Jackie McAndrew

Email: opencampus@hull.ac.uk

Telephone: 01482 466585

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