Showcasing new material on the Grenada Revolution at Black Cultural Archives with Merle Hodge

In October 2023, exactly forty years after the fall of the Grenadian Revolution, BCA hosted a sold-out event ‘Remembering the Grenada Revolution’ at One Windrush Square. That event celebrated and showcased the newly deposited Jacqueline Creft Memorial Collection, a globally significant collection of artefacts, documents, and recordings commemorated to Minister of Education Jacqueline Creft. You can read about and listen to a recording from that event at the BCA blog here.

Two years on, we invite you to join BCA once again to celebrate and remember the Grenada Revolution, and to learn about a brand-new collection of materials deposited at BCA by internationalist educator Liesbeth de Block. The event will preview objects and materials from the collection relating to education and internationalism ahead of their being made available to visitors and researchers later this year.

We are thrilled to welcome renowned Trinidadian writer Merle Hodge, who will join Liesbeth de Block to share insights on developments in education during the Grenada Revolution, including the National In-Service Teacher Education Programme (NISTEP). The event will also feature insights from researchers at University College London, without whom the cataloguing of this important collection would not have been possible.

You are warmly invited to join the discussions and reflect on the significance of this important geopolitical event today.

This event is made possible by the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.