Dorset’s Hidden Histories Book
Researched and written by poet and writer Louisa Adjoa Parker and published by DEED in 2007, this book was part of a Heritage Fund project called ‘Black History in Dorset.’
It was the year of the bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, a year of commemoration and reflection. It starts to explore 400 years of the presence of black people in Dorset and it is where we first met Thomas Lewis Johnson, Belle Davis, John Stockley and others (find out more about them here). It uses stories, photos and archives to tell the story of Dorset’s often forgotten multicultural past.
Available to buy from DEED @£8.95 + £3 p&p please contact us if you want any copies. DEED’s exhibition of the same name highlights black and brown people who have lived, loved, worked and travelled through Dorset for many years.