Coal Miners of African Caribbean Heritage Archives & Museum

• Black Miners Museum founder and director. Research archive: blackcoalminers.com
• Wales’ Black Miners, ​​​​​co-production in collaboration with BBC Wales, October 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000n9rx/wales-black-miners
• ITV Tyne Tees, October 2020 https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2020-10-06/new-exhibition-running-during-black-history-month-at-woodhorn-museum-to-celebrate-black-and-african-caribbean-miners
• BBC Wales news article, October 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54390217
• BBC Look North, October 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xys1sLGt5Cg&feature=youtu.be
• BBC News online article, Digging Deep documentary film screening, October 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-54543640?fbclid=IwAR1CmjZx3X-fBlKj6AqhlaJF7P2pksohkET-uMRx2tjJTwt0zVCb-H9cdco
• The lost story of Britain’s Black miners by Belinda Liversedge with interview contributions   https://www.britsafe.org/publications/safety-management-magazine/safety-management-magazine/2021/the-lost-story-of-britain-s-black-miners/
• ‘Black British Coal Miners Significance and Sacrifice Remembered’ in Race Matters online, 25th October 2019 by the Runnymede Trust https://www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/black-british-coal-miners-significance-and-sacrifice-remembered
• The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mininghttps://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2019/oct/29/digging-deep-black-miners-museum-project
• LeftLion newspaper feature p.27, #119 November 2019 interview with Alex Kuster https://www.leftlion.co.uk/media/4876691/leftlion-issue-119-web.pdfonline version https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2019/november/norma-gregory-black-miners-history-exhibition/
• MEDIUM online magazine, consultancy and images, ‘Black History in the Coalfields’ article by Grace Millar, October 2019,​​​​​ ​​https://medium.com/@ncb1947/black-history-in-the-coalfields-2ee6f61e15f1
• ChronicleLive News, North East https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/andy-coles-dad-black-miners-19143172
• EDITION magazine, consultancy and images, ‘Black Coal Miners – ‘A Tribute to a Hidden Past’ interview with Joy Sigaud, October 2019 https://editionbhm.com/2019/10/31/black-coal-miners-a-tribute-to-a-hidden-past/
• Kirklees TV interview (December 2019) https://youtu.be/sgC_MFy2XsQ
• Kirklees TV interview (March 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRfoE4nNHnc&t=17s
• Toronto Caribbean magazine (print and online versions), 5th November 2019, interview with David Myles https://torontocaribbean.com/digging-deeper-with-norma-gregory/
• Guest panelist, ‘The Battle of Orgreave’ by Jeremy Deller, film screening and discussion, St Leonards Labour Group, London 14th June 2019
• The Coal Authority, Nottinghamshire, research presentation to staff, 21st October 2019
• UNITE, Headquarters Holborn London, research presentation to staff, 3rd October 2019
• JUNO Women’s Aid, Nottingham, ‘Inspirational Women’ event, speaker, 25th October 2019
• Conference paper: ‘Black Miners: Migration Memories from British Coalfields,’ Migrants & Minorities in Coalmining, Nottingham Trent University Conference, 11th July 2019 https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2019/07/migrants-and-minorities-in-british-coalmining
• The Guardian newspaper, 25th October 2016, ‘How Britain’s black miners are reclaiming their place in history’ an article by Frances Perraudin. Photos by David Sillitoe. The Guardian, G2 supplement, pages 10-11 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/24/black-miners-britain-nottingham
• Channel 4 News, 27th April 2018 https://www.channel4.com/news/windrush-miners-hold-reunion
• Channel 4 Newssocial media video https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/10155887355091939/?q=channel%204%20news%20miners
• BBC 1 Inside Out East Midlands(documentary programme) ‘Brothers Beneath the Surface’ viewing 12th September 2016. BBC Presenter / Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOHHcTgzs5E (BBC Inside Out East Midlands, ‘Brothers Beneath the Surface’ news feature and at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tc17r
• BBC Wales, February 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43111730
• BBC Bargain Hunt, episode 50, Nottingham 13 (aired 02/07/18) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b99x4b 
• ITV Calendar (Yorkshire TV) news, 15th October 2019 https://youtu.be/iW5vd_8yCYs
• The Voice Newspaper (online) 28th September 2019 https://www.voice-online.co.uk/entertainment/arts-culture/2019/09/28/digging-deep-miners-of-african-caribbean-heritage/
• Exhibition promotional video/vlog, September 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZl9b7iIJHI
• The Voice newspaper, May 24-30 Issue No.1833, 2018, pages 9 https://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/black-miners-unite
• The Voice newspaper, August 4-10, 2016, pages 6-7. ‘The Untold Story of Britain’s Black Miners’. https://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/untold-story-britains-black-miners
• The Voice newspaper, July 21-27, 2016, page 11.’ Nottingham Project Highlights the History of Black Miners’. https://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/nottingham-project-highlights-history-black-miners
• The Voice newspaper, May 3-9 2018, Issue No.1830, p.3
• The Voice newspaper, May 24-30 2018, Issue No. 1833 p.9
• The Voice newspaper, June 21-27 2018, Windrush 70, Souvenir Edition p. 24
• Commission work by David Severn, photographer, black miners’ portraits https://www.davidsevern.com/projects-all/the-pit-of-nations
• ‘The Meaning of Black History’ presentation at Birmingham University, November 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIqsxtxNJNE&t=6sand https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/events/2016/meanings-of-black-history.aspx.
• Notts TV (News) – ‘The project to uncover the untold stories of black miners in Notts’ 11.10.16 https://nottstv.com/inside-pit-nations-untold-story-black-miners-nottinghamshire/
• University of Nottingham presentation, 17th October 2017. Digging Deeper: unearthing narratives of black British coal miners. https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/peopleandculture/2017/09/14/digging-deeper-unearthing-narratives-black-british-coal-miners/
• Heritage Lottery Funding articlehttps://www.national-lottery.co.uk/life-changing/project-funding-finder?icid=lich-212:bd:13:ist-ts:tnl:lich-prfufi-270:in:co
• Black Miners’ Reunion event 27th April 2018 (organiser) https://vimeo.com/267018775 https://youtu.be/YhERgt1XHnA
• Project featured in article by author James Walker: https://jameskwalker.co.uk/blog/2018/05/16/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-making-a-radio-documentary-but-couldnt-be-arsed-to-ask/
• Project featured in article by author James Walker: https://dawnoftheunread.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/talkandtongue-pit-poetry-and-notts-dialect/
• Nottingham Local History Association (Newsletter) September 2019 https://nlha.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/3.21-NLHA-Newsletter_September-2019.pdf
• Huddersfield Windrush Festival by the Jamaica National Council, Huddersfield Town Hall, 29th September 2018, speaker
• Heritage Lottery Fund, online guest panelist, ‘Capturing Memories of Working Lives’ https://www.hlf.org.uk/community/live-chats/capturing-memories-working-lives-20-september-2018
• Castle Cavendish Funding Award, summer 2016. Project titled, Coal Kids: Youth experiences in Nottinghamshire coal mining history.
• Kemet FM radio interview with Kevin Brown ‘The Talk Back Show’. Topic: Coal Miners of African Heritage: Narratives from Nottinghamshire, 1st May 2016.
• BBC Radio Nottingham black coal miners’ interview with presenter, Jodie Law
• Nottingham Trent University, Department of English, student lecture. Topic: Coal Miners of African Heritage: Narratives from Nottinghamshire, 9th May 2016
• Bygones newspaper feature article (Nottingham), 7th November 2016, page 13 ‘History in black and white’.

Podcasts, radio and other broadcast media activity

• BBC Radio 4 Open Country, From Pit to Park, 13 October 2022  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cxxp / https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001cxxp
• ‘Helping People Through Heritage’ https://wtppod.buzzsprout.com/2068680/11787072-helping-people-through-heritage-with-norma-gregory (Episode 4) created for What’s The Point? podcast series by produced by Bryony Armstrong, December 2022  
• Historic England podcast series, ‘Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places – Power, Protest & Progress’. Guest panelist with historians David Olusoga, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, Celia Richardson and Billy Hurley Reading among others, as featured in The Guardian 07/08/2018: 
• https://historicengland.org.uk/get-involved/100-places/protest-power/peterloo-cable-street-and-olaudah-equiano/
• https://historicengland.org.uk/get-involved/100-places/protest-power/miners-martyrs-and-palace-of-westminster/
• /https://historicengland.org.uk/get-involved/100-places/protest-power/nuclear-physics-manchester-and-bristol-bus-boycott/
• Inside Out BBC East Midlands (broadcast 12.09.16) Brother Beneath the Surface, (feature story) about the experiences of black miners of Nottinghamshire. Produced by Jane Dodge. Available to view at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOHHcTgzs5E
• Windrush Stories (Series 2) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BGl4an21TlPRdNAN4WEpg with thanks to the Prison Association https://www.windrushstories.com/season2 
• BBC ‘Expert Voices’ Academy selected candidate (Birmingham, 2014) https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art20150505123427008
• BBC Radio Nottingham regular guest contributor (Sundays, African-Caribbean Show, Midweek: The Afternoon Show)
• Mello FM, Montego Bay Jamaica. Radio interview 22nd November 2016. 
• Kemet FM, Nottingham. Guest contributor (Kevin Brown Talk Back Show Sundays 9-11pm, Christine Belle, Weekday Show 10-1pm)
• Mojatu Magazine, Editor-in-Chief, 12 months
• Stella Vision Films, Nottingham. Assistant producer and researcher The History of the Nottingham Carnival (2012). Premiered at The New Art Exchange, Nottingham (10/08/12) 
• It’s My Story!‘ Meet the Media Experts’ community media event, host and organiser (Antenna Media Centre, 5/2/15). Media training facilitator 2014-2015
• Insite Radio, Nottingham Internet radio station, volunteer presenter (2013)
• BBC, Blue Peter, BBC Television Centre, London. Research and administration work experience, 2000.
• BBC 10 day training in camera and editing skills (1999)
• Bullseye TV Production Company, London. Voluntary work, researcher (1999)
• The British Library, London. Work experience, Library Assistant (1998)
• Sunday Express Newspaper, Voluntary work experience as a researcher, Features section (1995)

Artistic / Curatorial summary

• Royal College of Art, London (Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Theory and Practice) July 2019
• Black Miners Museum. Norma Gregory’s heritage research and heritage management activities have included collating and sharing oral histories from coal miners of African heritage from across the UK, through the receipt of National Heritage Lottery Awards (in 2015-2016, 2017-2019, 2019-2021). Norma has been a successful heritage project manager for various organisations and initiatives and led the heritage project collating a history of the Nottingham Carnival, in association with Tuntum Housing Association, Nottingham see https://nottinghamcarnivalheritage.com/?page.id=11694.
• Curator, Digging Deep Exhibition (national touring from 2018-)

Norma Gregory has written and published many articles and academic papers over the years concerning her topics of interest being: black British literary and social history, early narratives of the African diaspora with links to Britain, black British writers and personalities, black history in Nottingham, the Midlands and UK, black feminist theology and literature as well as producing community heritage news from diverse communities in Nottingham.

Examples of published books include:

Crooked Carousel: Selected Poetry (Nottingham News Centre Publishing, 2016), reflecting the challenges and achievements of Black British womanist experiences and desires embedded within displaced British cultural, religious and postmodern contexts.

Jamaicans in Nottingham, Narratives and Reflections (Hansib Publications, 2015) has enabled Norma to share her oral history research gathered from pioneering Jamaicans in Nottingham with local, national and international audiences.

She is committed to community development (on personal and professional levels) and an advocate for equality and inclusion through education and publishing.

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