Standing In This Place Podcast
with Rachel Carter and special guests
Welcome to the new podcast Standing In This Place, an arts and heritage project co-created by sculptor Rachel Carter in response to the work of the Legacy Makers. It looks to highlight the contributions and connections between white mill workers and black enslaved women uprooted to the Americas, showing how their stories and histories are connected by cotton, sorrow, strength and resilience.
Join her and special guests as they delve into a new topic each episode with creative breaks performed by young people living in and around the City of Nottingham and Derby.
Podcast Episode Guide
Episode 1 Introducing Standing In This Place
Join Rachel Carter as she is interviewed by presenter Verity Cowley on BBC Radio Nottingham and shares the details of the new sculpture project Standing In This Place.
Episode 2 Introducing Arkwright, Strutt and Evans
Join Rachel Carter in conversation with Adrian Farmer, Heritage Coordinator at the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site or in short ‘The Keeper of the History’. We discover; who is Arkwright? What was he doing in Nottingham? and how his ideas sparked new methods of Industrialisation that swept across the Midlands and further afield.
Image: Richard Arkwright
Episode 3 Echos of the Past, A story of Cotton & Coal
Join Rachel in conversation with her Uncle Michael Bramley, a retired Police Constable, as they delve into the lives of their ancestors working in the cotton mills and find echos from the past that reverberated into their own lives.
Image: Bramley General Dealers Shop, Nottingham Road, Ilkeston c.1901
Episode 4 Community Voices: Nadia Ming
Join artist Rachel Carter as she introduces the first of the Community Voices, artist Nadia Ming who shares with us her own creative journey and some of the barriers she has overcome to pursue a career in the arts.
Image: Nadia Ming at Art School
Podcast creative break supplied by Confetti student, singer/songwriter Alfie Wallace
Episode 5 Cotton: Where did it come from?
Join Rachel Carter in conversation with Dr Susanne Seymour from the University of Nottingham as they discuss Cotton. Where did it come from before it entered the industrial mills of the Midlands, and under what conditions was it grown and harvested?
Image: Dr Susanne Seymour
Creative break by George Burnett, a young writer with Writing East Midlands
Episode 6 The International Slavery Museum
Recorded live during our visit to the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, our project members discuss some of the exhibits they have seen and how they feel.
Image: Wooden figure in the International Slavery Museum
Episode 7 Meet The Sugar Stealers
Join Rachel Carter and the Sugar Stealers who took part of the Standing In This Place Mini Figures Commission. A group of ten stitchers where invited to attend a series of workshops, talks and museum visits to delve into the history of the two women represented in this project and asked to design and create a contemporary historically inspired costume for the figures.
Creative break by Jess aged 12, a young writer with Writing East Midlands.
Photograph by Lamar Francois
Episode 8 The life of the cotton mill workers
Join Rachel as she talks once more with Adrian Farmer, Heritage coordinator at the Derwent valley World Heritage Site and discover what was it like to be a cotton mill worker.
Creative break by Abi Hutchison, a young writer with Writing East Midlands
Episode 9 Community Voices: Veronica Barnes
Join Rachel as she talks with Veronica Barnes, founder of the Blue Mountain Women Group, community activist and member of the Slave Trade Legacies heritage project run by Bright Ideas Nottingham.
Creative break by Confetti student Wezi Jere, aged 22.
Image by Lamar Francois
Episode 10 Hidden Stories of Women of the Lace Market
Join Rachel and her special guests from Nottingham Womens History Network as they discover the hidden stories of women from the Lace Market area of Nottingham.
Creative break by Natalie Williams aged 14, Yard Youth Theatre with NAE
Episode 11 Hidden Stories of Women of the Lace Market: Part 2
Join Rachel and her special guests from Nottingham Women's History Network, for part 2 of their journey into the hidden stories of women from the Lace Market area of Nottingham.
Creative break by Bea Robinson aged 14, Yard Youth Theatre with NAE
Episode 12 Young People and Protest
Join Rachel Carter and writer, activist and poet Cara Thompson as they discuss the young persons creative break competition and review four young poets.
Image: Poet Cara Thompson
Creative breaks by: George Burnett, Jessica Pywell, Abi Hutchinson and Joshua Rozee. Young writers supported by Writing East Midlands
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Episode 13 Nottingham’s Statues and Plaques
Join Rachel Carter as she discusses Nottingham’s Statues and Plaques with Dr James Dawkins and finds out their connections with the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Image: Dr James Dawkins
Episode 14 The Cotton Mills of Nottingham’s Leen Valley
Join artist Rachel Carter as she goes on a journey of discovery of Nottingham’s hidden cotton mills of the Leen valley with Dr Stephen Walker.
Episode 15 Community Voices: Charles Washington
Join Rachel and Lisa from MonOlisa Productions as we talk with Charles Washington, a member of the Legacy Makers group formed by Bright Ideas Nottingham in 2014.
Creative break by Tilly Wiggins, a young poet with Writing East Midlands.
Image by Lamar Francois
Episode 16 Community Voices: Louise Garvey
Join Rachel and Lisa from MonOlisa Productions as we talk with Louise Garvey, born in 1941 in East Portland, Jamaica. She emigrated to the UK as a teenager to pursue a career in the health service. She is one of our Legacy Makers here in Nottingham.
Creative Break by Kit Bailey, a young poet with Writing East Midlands
Image by Lamar Francois
Episode 17 Community Voices: Isalyn Martin
Join Rachel and Lisa from MonOlisa Productions as we talk with Isalyn, born in Saint Kitts & Nevis. She emigrated to the UK as a small child with her family. She is one of our Legacy Makers here in Nottingham.
Creative Break by Abigail Hutchinson, a young poet with Writing East Midlands.
Image by Lamar Francois
Episode 18 Community Voices: Bettina Wallace
Join artist Rachel Carter and Lisa from MonOlisa Productions to talk with Bettina Wallace, born in St Mary, Jamaica in 1953 she travelled to the UK as a small child. she is one of our Legacy maker here in Nottingham.
Creative break by Sophie Cambell, a young poet with Writing East Midlands.
Image by Lamar Francois
Episode 19 Community Voices: Jenny Wizzard
Join artist Rachel Carter and Lisa from MonOlisa Productions as they talk with Jenny, born in West Yorkshire, she is one of our Legacy Makers here in Nottingham.
Creative break performed by Kit Bailey, a young poet with Writing East Midlands
Image by Lamar Fracois
Episode 20 Discovering Audio Archives
Join artist Rachel Carter and MA Public History student Kayley-Anne Porter as they delve into the audio archive of The Lace Trade in Nottingham, featuring interviews with Lace Workers of the early 1900's.
Image: Kayley-Anne Porter
Episode 21 Introducing artist Ismail Khokon
Join artist Rachel Carter as she interviews fellow artist Ismail Khokon to discuss working together on Speak Her Name, the creative process and the Swadeshi movement of South Asia.
Image by Lamar Francois
Episode 22 Introducing artist Anisha Parmar
Join artist Rachel Carter as she interviews fellow artist and Jewellery designer Anisha Parmar to discuss working together on Speak Her Name, the creative process and how family ancestry can influence your creativity.
Image curtsy of Anisha Parmar Studio
Episode 23 Introducing Intern Fatou Marong
Join artist Rachel Carter as she talks to project intern Fatou Marong, currently studying for a Master's degree in Black British History, at Goldsmiths. We discover her journey to contribute to academia as a research historian, aiming to uplift communities through empowering historical narratives, with a focus on forgotten histories outside of Eurocentric perspectives.
Image by Lamar Francois