It’s generated stimulating conversations on social media, with people suggesting paintingsI wasn’t aware of,helping me on my mission to keep going. It's a project I'm passionate about, in the same way I'm passionate about performing music that has been marginalised. A lot of the work I do alongsidebeing an opera singeris performing the works of composers that have been banned or suppressed, and haven't had their voices heard or have had their artistic output cut short as a result of censorship.This project feels like it goes hand in hand with that, in some ways it feels like a visual representation of that work.

The original artwork comes from Dempsey's extensive folio of the British working class. Reworked with an array of footwear that includes my red baby shoe, the portrait is thought to depict Charles Willis Yearly, who sold second-hand shoes in Norwich. Neither servant nor enslaved, Charley effectively punctures the myth of Georgian England's homogeneity. Student Services Navigation link in category Student Services. Press escape key to return to main menu In the spring of 2020, British opera singer and broadcaster Peter Brathwaite found himself like most everyone else, wandering his home and wondering how exactly he was going to pass the coming days. The baritone, who typically had a busy calendar of performances at major opera houses throughout Europe, watched as, day by day, his commitments, one by one, disappeared from the calendar.Research & Innovation Navigation link in category Research & Innovation. Press escape key to return to main menu I’ve been singing since I was 7, and my degree gave me the opportunity to also take some music and history modules, which I really enjoyed. It felt like a home from home being in the music department. It's a project I'm passionate about, in the same way I'm passionate about performing music that has been marginalised. The goal is always to help people to access a different, difficult history that maybe they would not have necessarily accessed before.

Pinder reported directly to the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of York. The most surprising aspect of my research has been finding out that my own ancestors are mentioned in reports detailing Pinder’s progress in converting the local population.The records show that John Hothersall Pinder considered my ancestors to be useful Christian role models for his enslaved workers. Extracts from Reports of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1824. British Online ArchivesAs a free mixed race family in pre-emancipation Barbados, my 4 x great grandparents Margaret and Addo Brathwaite were accorded some privileges but denied most. Freed people strove to become Christians not only for the spiritual gains of faith, but also because being “British, Christian and a loyal subject” helped to justify their claims to civil rights in a society where they were neither enslaved nor entirely free.