Brixton Riots – Social Reporting Project – Kicks Off!
November 4, 2008 Community, Social mediaThis blog is written by participants of a one week social reporting project.
Day 1
This is a project run by the Museum of London, to bring the story of the Brixton riots in 1981 to life. We will be interviewing people from the Brixton area of that time. We are a group of Londoners, given the chance to learn reporting and interviewing skills, with the help of sounddelivery. We weren’t around at the time of the riots, but we want to learn more. We started the day with a bit of history from a community historian Angelina Osborne dating back to the 16th century up to the date of the riots in April 1981. We learned the key factors that lead to the riot like racism, anger, housing, unemployment and the introduction of the sus laws which gave the police power to target the people of the Brixton area . We ended the afternoon with sounddelivery training us on the equipment and showing the different techniques of reporting and interviewing.
We recorded our thoughts of Brixton on our first day, as part of the training.
My Brixton – First ever interviews by the participants of the project
Click here to see photographs from the first day of the project!
NATALIE :
Date: April 9, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
Hi I am a student writer studying creative writimg and am writing a fictional peice about the windrush form 1948 is there any directions you can put me in and any way of learning more about the brixton riots and what imigrants had to endure
chantal :
Date: October 15, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
I’m an English teacher preparing a trip to london …I’d be interested in your findings concerning the Brixton Riots…When and where will they be available???
chantal Barghach
Lucie Fitton (project manager) :
Date: October 16, 2009 @ 10:53 am
Hi Chantal,
You can listen to the interviews from this project on the Museum’s main website http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Community/BrixtonRiots/Default.htm. You can also download the transciptions. We will also have some images and quotes from the project featuring in our new galleries opening in Spring 2010.
Do contact me on community@museumoflondon.org.uk if you require any more information.
Thanks, Lucie